When I was a lad, movie merchandise was in general maybe a tie-in magazine, book, badges, jigsaws, T-shirts and the like but along came Star Wars in 1977, which changed everything, instead of ‘Action Man’, the action figure was born, a 5 inch replica of our heroes Han, Luke and the like (as well as Darth and his troopers of course =) Excellent marketing showed the list of … [Read more...]
From the Cinema to TV: The New Trend to Turn Films Into TV shows
Over recent years, TV has been talked about as the new cinema, due to the storytelling of such shows as Game Of Thrones, The Wire and our personal favourite, Breaking Bad. However, it appears this has now come full circle with our cinematic favourites now being turned into the new TV! Of course this idea is not new and can work, one of our favourite TV show’s started its life … [Read more...]
3-D or not 3-D, That is the Question (for Movie Goers Lately ?)
Around 2005, our film experiences were served up a new experience which had been used in cinema as early as even the Fifties when a creature emerged from a Black Lagoon to scare movie fans in the format we know as 3-D Previous attempts to use 3-D have occurred since the Fifties, most notably in the Eighties especially in the Threequel, Jason stalked his victims on a Friday the … [Read more...]
Jaws: The film we are most ‘Barking Mad’ about so leave it alone!
We, at BMAF, were most alarmed with the news that Steven Spielberg was taking Dreamworks from Disney to Universal. Nothing to be alarmed at, these things happen, Star Wars went from Fox to Disney recently and seems to be in safe hands or so we thought If like us, you are Barking Mad about Films, you probably follow lots of movie-related sites and one post kept coming up; … [Read more...]
Fantastic or Not Fantastic Four?
This week's choice of film for BMaF was one out of curiosity as we chose to see the reboot of the Fantastic Four, a film that seems to have been plagued with issues around its production, which only seem to be enhanced when it was announced the film would not be screening for critics, normally a good sign that the film may not be the best At one point this was even talked about … [Read more...]