Ever since director Matthew Vaughn moved from product to director his films have been ones to watch from Layer Cake; Stardust; Kick-Ass; X-Men: First Class and Kingsman: The Secret Service. Now if we were honest, we found Kingsman the weakest of these, yet this is the film he has chosen to make for his first sequel, leaving other franchises to continue with other directors … [Read more...]
Is This Animated Film Something to ‘Sing’ About?
Today we saw animated box office hit Sing from writer/director Garth Jennings about some animals competing in a talent show. The film follows a Koala bear called Buster Moon (Voiced by Matthew McConaughey) who owns a failing theatre and is desperate to put on one big show to save it from closure. With the popularity of talent shows on TV, he believes that by putting one … [Read more...]
Does Eddie the Eagle Soar In This Biopic?
This week for the BMAF household we saw Eddie the Eagle, a film based (very loosely) on the true events of Eddie Edwards, who became the first British Ski Jumper at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Oddly enough this film will most likely have you thinking of Cool Runnings, the film about the Jamaican Bobsled team, as this also happened at the 1988 Winter Olympics. The film … [Read more...]
Would you be as Mad as Max to miss Tom Hardy in Legend?
If you were to name a Tom Hardy film of last year, it is more than likely you would have said his Box Office monster that was Mad Max: Fury Road But he was also in the movie adaptation of the best-selling novel Child 44 and Legend, a film about the Kray twins from Writer/Director Brian Helgeland (who had previously directed Mel Gibson in Payback and Heath Ledger in both the … [Read more...]