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...]
Hold The Front Page! BMAF review Spotlight
This week, we finally got round to seeing this year’s Oscar-winning film for best picture, Spotlight. The film inspired by true events and is incredibly written by writer/director Tom McCarthy, the same writer/director of Adam Sandler film The Cobbler, A film more associated with the Golden Raspberries than the Academy awards!! The film concerns the serious and … [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...]
Reach New Cinematic Heights With The Walk
This week I chose a film to watch, not on the basis of the director being Robert Zemeckis, but something that rarely happens, it being in 3D. The film in question was The Walk. The reason why the director, cast etc did not have me rushing to see it, was because the Walk is based on true events, which have already been covered on screen, in the brilliant 2008 documentary, Man … [Read more...]
Climbing Everest via Your Cinema Seat!
This week’s film of choice for BMAF was the film of the real-life events that occurred on a climbing expedition to the top of Everest in 1996. The film follows Rob Hall (played by Jason Clarke, recently seen in Terminator: Genisys) and his tour company which helps the adventures fulfil their ambitions to scale the peak of Everest, amongst them are Doug (John Hawkes) and Beck … [Read more...]