Hi, it is Bill and Teddy the Chihuahua again and time for our AUGUST Barking Mad About Films Newsletter. In our newsletter, we will aim to share some of our thoughts and watches of the month and what we are looking forward to in the next month. So, without any further ado, welcome to our review of August…. BARKING MAD ABOUT AUGUST This month was as always … [Read more...]
Putting the APE Into Our APE-RIL Rewatches
We are big fans of the Planet of the Apes movie series, but it wasn’t always that way. 🦍 It was one of those things we were aware of, mainly from its TV series and Cartoon in the Seventies, when growing up. But if we saw the movies, we had no real memory of them. In fact we didn’t really discover the movies, until the late Eighties, when we saw the brilliant … [Read more...]
Five Films Being Turned Into New TV Shows
With so many new streaming platforms, production companies need to get new content for them. An easy way of doing that is creating a TV show based on an existing film, recently for example, we had shows based on: Willow Fatal Attraction Wednesday from The Addams Family Boiling Point American Gigolo Reacher The list goes on and on, but here are five more … [Read more...]
Patriots Day Shows The Horrors of Terrorism
This weekend we watched Patriots Day a film based on the horrific events of the Boston Marathon in 2013 when bombs was detonated in the crowd. This film follows the efforts of the authorities to track down the bombers and how Boston was in fear until they were captured. The film is the 3rd true story to brought screen by director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg (the others … [Read more...]
Does Shooter Hit Our Action Film Targets?
One of our favourite action films of recent years was the 2007 Shooter, directed by Antoine Fuqua. We were reminded of it when we heard that it was being remade for TV, and will debut on Netflix. It should be noted the film itself was based on Point of Impact (which is available at Amazon here) the first in Stephen Hunter’s book series, so it does have the content to extend … [Read more...]