Continuing our watching of this year's Academy Awards Oscar for Best Picture nominees, we watched The Revenant, the film that would finally get Leonardo DiCaprio his best actor Oscar. This was his 5th attempt, impressive when you consider the first time we saw him was in Critters 3! This would be the follow-up film for last year’s Best Director winner, Alejandro G. Inarritu, … [Read more...]
13 Hours. Krasinski & The War In Benghazi
Today we watched 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, in part because we wanted to see the transformation of John Krasinski, (who we love as Jim in the American version of The Office) from his usual RomCom lead to action star From director Michael Bay, who has found fame with the Transformers movies, but we much prefer for his earlier work like B Armageddon, Bad … [Read more...]
Primal Fear: Head to Court with Norton and Gere!
This week at BMAF HQ, we watched, via Netflix, the 1996 courtroom drama Primal Fear, based on the book by William Diehl. The Film follows Richard Gere as a seemingly unbeatable hotshot lawyer, Martin Vail. When an archbishop is brutally murdered, an altar boy is arrested after fleeing from the crime scene. All evidence would appear to show he is the guilty party. The … [Read more...]
Regression: The Harry Potter favourite witch faces a Satanic Cult!
A chance spotting in a charity shop, we found Regression, the new film from Alejandro Amenabar, who made the supernatural film The Others starring Nicole Kidman. The film was at a fairly cheap price, so with the added bonus of helping a charity shop we took it home with us. Now we didn’t know much about this film, it passed us by in cinemas, but with a cast including Harry … [Read more...]
Solace: Farrell and Hopkins see into the future
In a quiet week of cinema releases, a film called Solace was released starring Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell, we hadn’t heard of it before, had not even seen a trailer so felt like one of those many direct to DVD’s films Nicolas Cage turns up in of late. So we were quite happy to let this one pass us by until we read an article about the film where we discovered that the … [Read more...]