With so many great films still to come this year, we look at our highlights from the first 6 months! So starting at number 10: 10: Game Night (Our Review) This fun dark comedy actually made us laugh and the cast which included many familiar faces from our favourite TV shows was a pleasant surprise 9: Ready Player One (Our Review) Spielberg magic brought Ernest … [Read more...]
BMAF Board Kenneth Branagh’s Orient Express Remake
This week we went to see Kenneth Branagh’s remake of Agatha Christie’s best selling Hercule Poirot adventure Murder on the Orient Express. Much like the famous 1974 film v Sidney Lumet film version, this again has an all-star cast in this murder mystery set on the famous Orient Express train. We first meet Poirot (Played by Branagh) when he solves a case in Jerusalem, … [Read more...]
Illness on screen! A prescription for Box Office Success?
This week, Facebook highlighted that we had watched The Fault in our Stars A Teen Romantic Drama about illness, in this instance, sufferers with cancer, a year ago! What was a coincidence was that this week’s film rental was Miss You Already, again a film about someone coming to terms with being diagnosed with cancer. Films dealing with illness, terminal or not as well as … [Read more...]
The Theory of Everything: A Film About an Award Winning Scientist Worthy of Its Film Awards
Sunday night at the home of the BMAF is generally movie night taking advantage of the rental service we belong to. My cinema visits tend to involve just about anything, although a creature feature will always be high on my list but as home movie night involves the great Mrs BMAF the film will normally be more grounded in real life and no more so than this week’s choice, the 5 … [Read more...]