This week, we finally got round to seeing this year’s Oscar-winning film for best picture, Spotlight. The film inspired by true events and is incredibly written by writer/director Tom McCarthy, the same writer/director of Adam Sandler film The Cobbler, A film more associated with the Golden Raspberries than the Academy awards!! The film concerns the serious and … [Read more...]
The Signs That Help Choose What Film We Rewatch
What inspiration have you had to watch a film? For us, at Barking Mad About Films it could be anything. As an example, whilst out for a drive, the song Live it Up by Mental as Anything came on the radio. It’s a song I like, so much so I have it on 12-inch vinyl, not a download. I know it as being featured in the Paul Hogan Eighties classic, Crocodile Dundee, and just … [Read more...]
Cats! The ‘Purrfect’ Screen Star, It Seems So!
We have always declared to be 'Barking Mad About Films' when I watch a film on the sofa, Pepper will be curled up in her bed next to me, so we have to ask what have dogs done wrong! Cats are becoming the pet go to choice for films! Up first is the Jordan Peele/Keegan-Michael Key vehicle, Keanu about a stolen kitten, closely followed by Nine Lives, which brings us Kevin … [Read more...]
Locke: Take A Journey As Tom Hardy’s Passenger
After a string of great performance including Warrior; Inception; Bronson; The Drop and big box office hits The Dark Knight Rises and Mad Max; Fury Road, it would be fair to say we are fans of Tom Hardy now, and we now add Locke to his great films! We first really came aware of him in RocknRolla, the under-rated Guy Ritchie film, but his performances which also include … [Read more...]
We Miss Original Blockbuster Movies!
We were looking at the latest film times online, planning our next trip and we are clearly now in Blockbuster season. Proven by the fact that we definitely look like heading out to see Captain America: Civil War, for our next choice. But whilst there, we noticed tickets are now also available for X-Men: Apocalypse, which will highly likely be our next choice. We then felt a … [Read more...]