We at Barking Mad About Films are looking forward to seeing Kong: Skull Island upon its release. Like many other reboots/remakes/sequels, it always makes up want to revisit the originals, now we have two Kong titles in our DVD collection; the most recent Peter Jackson remake and a Toho classic of 1963 when King Kong was used as an adversary for Godzilla. Both are good … [Read more...]
10 Films That BMAF Can’t Wait To See For 2017
As we sat down and had a look at the films coming out for this year, we chose 10 which I guess may not look very original, but we want to see them none the less. Plenty of others we considered such as the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie; Murder on the Orient Express; War for the Planet of the Apes; Kingsman 2; Paddington 2; The Mummy and even Baywatch! The truth is … [Read more...]
BMAF Can’t Wait To Meet The Girl On The Train
We at Barking Mad About Films do love a Jennifer Lawrence movie, but one other actress we always keep an eye on is Emily Blunt! She always seems to make at least one film that makes our end of year top 10! Examples are 2015 Sicario; 2014 Edge of Tomorrow; 2012 Looper; 2011 The Adjustment Bureau. 2013 She only provided voiceover work for the English version of The Wind Rises … [Read more...]
Vacation: Should you give this reboot the boot
National Lampoon's vacation films with Chevy Chase and its various sequels are normally fun to watch, the Christmas one I seem to find watching every year so I thought why not give the reboot a go The reboot stars Ed Helms (who I love in TV's The Office) as Rusty one of the Griswald children from the Chevy Chase films and Anchorman's Christina Applegate as his wife Debbie, so … [Read more...]
Disney’s Million Dollar Arm: You’ll be a ‘Mad Man’ to miss it
This weekend at the home of BMaF, Mrs Barking Mad chose our choice of film for our now usual Sunday night ritual. And what a cracker she chose in Disney's Million Dollar Arm. Star of one of our favourite TV shows 'Mad Men' Jon (Donald Draper) Hamm stars as JB who has left his relatively safe sports agent job to go it alone with his friend Aash (Aasif Mandvi), but their one … [Read more...]