Even though we are Barking Mad About Films, we don’t hate the feline species so we finally caught up with the Kitten action comedy film that is Keanu. The film starts with a pair of assassins known as the Allentown Boys (played by Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key) and breaking into a drug den and killing all inside and taking the drug boss, King Diaz’s kitten (Ian … [Read more...]
We Enjoy A Classic FX Double Bill of Films
In the UK we have various ‘Freeview’ channels which air movies, some show older classics, like the Horror channel, which we have blogged about previously. Another is Sony’s ‘Moviemix’ channel. A film we discovered was a 1986 thriller called F/X: Murder by Illusion. The film, directed by Robert Mandel, from a script by Gregory Fleeman & Robert T. Megginson, follows … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Films See Keanu Reeves Exposed!
We picked up Exposed on DVD from a charity shop, as we at the BMAF are big fans of Keanu Reeves. We first came across him in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure where he showed great comedy skills but he will probably be best known for his big action roles from the likes of Speed; The Matrix; Point Break and most recently John Wick (oddly enough we picked this DVD up when … [Read more...]
John Wick 2! We’re Thinking We’re Glad He’s Back!
This week there was only one new release for us and that was the big action sequel John Wick 2. We think the first John Wick is one of the best action films we had ever seen, in part this was because of the huge emotional attachment we had to it. Simply because when John Wick’s dog was killed, he had so much anger that he wanted revenge and we could only imagine how much … [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...]