This week our planned cinema visit trip was to see Twisters, a sequel to the 1996 film Twister. We could not really remember it at all, in fact all we really remember was that it features a cow flying into the air because of one of the film’s storm twisters. Other than not a lot else, other than it was by the director of Speed, Jan De Bont and it starred Helen Hunt and … [Read more...]
Can Stephen King Make You Scared Of Your Cell Phone?
With news of Cell, the bestseller from ‘The King of Horror’ Stephen King, heading to our screen, we quickly found the book in a charity shop and gave it a read, to find out if it will be a great movie. Of course, reading the book will not tell us what the film will be like, King’s works have ranged from the excellent such as Misery; Stand By Me and The Mist to the not so … [Read more...]
How is this Romantic in a RomCom?
The other day for our BMAF movie night, I sat down with Mrs BMAF and we scoured Netflix for something to watch. The wife chose Serendipity, a film I had seen a long time ago, but with John Cusack in it I was happy to watch it again! The film is along the lines that things happen for a reason and if its meant to be, its meant to be etc. It concerns Cusack as Jonathan and … [Read more...]
BMAF search the pix that can be found on Netflix
Over the festive period, the BMAF household decided it was time to join so many of our friends and subscribe to Netflix. It's a format that concerns us as its popularity seems to again be pushing people to watch movies online, we would hate this to be at the expense of the DVD/BluRay hard copy At the moment, there seems to be a world where both can exist, and being … [Read more...]
Would Streaming end Pound Movies?
The other day we wrote a blog about streaming of movies, due to the Mail running an article that claimed the DVD format was facing the end. This was because a DVD rental by post service was putting its prices up! VHS died out previously, but I for one hope that DVD does not follow. I’ve said before that streaming has issues, such as lack of subtitle options, unable to … [Read more...]