Over the festive period we picked up Beautiful Creatures on BluRay, it was one of those £1 films in Poundland, we hadn’t seen it, didn’t know much about it but knew that it starred Alden Ehrenreich as Ethan, who has been cast as Han Solo in the new Star Wars Anthology film, scheduled for a 2018 release. We had never seen him lead a film before, and looking at his IMDb … [Read more...]
Winters War: The Huntsman returns Thor another adventure
In 2012, We got 2 live action Snow White films that could not be more completely different. We had Mirror, Mirror with Julia Roberts & Lily Collins from Director Tarsem Singh,who was probably best known for the Jennifer Lopez SciFi Horror The Cell. We actually thought this was a lot of fun and a lot better than we expected. We also had Snow White and the Huntsman … [Read more...]
Why I’m glad the wife chose Brooklyn!
Sunday night is movie night in the BMAF household. A night I look forward to as time to spend with Mrs BMAF and Pepper on the sofa, after a busy working week. However, this week’s choice, Brooklyn, chosen by Mrs BMAF did not wow me, as not excited by it. Yet, this is one of the joys of film, by watching someone else’s recommendation, I saw an unexpected gem. This 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...]
The Hunger Games: Good things come to those who wait!
http://amzn.to/2115X1B In 2011, I used to have a long commute to work so would read many books on my train journey to work, one of the books that was recommended to me was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It was a great recommendation as I read it in no time and quickly devoured its two sequels Catching Fire and Mockingjay! I read with anticipation that the first book … [Read more...]