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...]
We’re Not Being Silenced About Our Favourite Oscar Best Picture Winner!
At the time of writing, the 2016 Oscars are happening this weekend. With the rise in Social Media, we’ve seen nothing but posts about what should or shouldn’t win, this year the Oscars are under a cloud due to the horrific #Oscarssowhite scandal. We want to gloss over that and think of Best Picture, some great choices and includes big box office far for a change in Mad Max: … [Read more...]
BMAF reviews Inside Out, A Pixar Emotion Picture
I had heard good things about this film, most other critics having it in their top 10 films of the year but I had my doubts on the fact that Pixar films, in my opinion, had lost their way of late, Cars was probably their poorest in a while and since then they appear to have played safe with sequels, Cars 2 and Monsters University. I am however pleased to report that Inside … [Read more...]
Were we wild about Wild?
This weekend we watched the 2014 film wild, the true story of one woman's undertaking of a 1100 mile hike following the break up of her marriage and death of her mother Following the death of her mother, Cheryl played by Reese Witherspoon went out of control, sleeping around, drinking and getting a drug addiction which led down to the breakdown of her marriage but having … [Read more...]