When I was young, Two film franchises often got ridiculed more than any others because of the amount of sequels they had, these being Friday the 13th and Police Academy, now though every film seems to be at it but when should a Movie Franchise stop? With Friday the 13th, it was kind of acceptable as they made Jason an almost magical creature simply because audiences wanted … [Read more...]
Caged In: When Paying the Bills Means Straight to DVD for Nicolas
This weekend, Channel 5, one of our TV stations had a disaster movie weekend and amongst their chosen features was the network premiere of 2014 film Left Behind. A film, of what seems to be a never-ending list starring Nicolas Cage! Due to his well-known issues with the Tax Man, he seems to have a film come out every 4-6 months to pay the bills, some of which you may have seen … [Read more...]
3-D or not 3-D, That is the Question (for Movie Goers Lately ?)
Around 2005, our film experiences were served up a new experience which had been used in cinema as early as even the Fifties when a creature emerged from a Black Lagoon to scare movie fans in the format we know as 3-D Previous attempts to use 3-D have occurred since the Fifties, most notably in the Eighties especially in the Threequel, Jason stalked his victims on a Friday the … [Read more...]
Jaws: The film we are most ‘Barking Mad’ about so leave it alone!
We, at BMAF, were most alarmed with the news that Steven Spielberg was taking Dreamworks from Disney to Universal. Nothing to be alarmed at, these things happen, Star Wars went from Fox to Disney recently and seems to be in safe hands or so we thought If like us, you are Barking Mad about Films, you probably follow lots of movie-related sites and one post kept coming up; … [Read more...]
BMAF Goes Into the Grizzly Maze
The BMAF as we have mentioned previously are very fond of a creature feature and this week we went down in the woods for a great surpirse, a film described as 'Jaws with Claws'The formerly titled 'Red Machine' but now the much more threatening 'Into the Grizzly Maze' was a cut above your usual B movie film due to its impressive cast, James Marsden from the 'X Men movies', no … [Read more...]