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CATS Trailer: How Not To Market A Movie Which Should Never Have Been Made In The First Place

It’s rare that a film trailer totally turns you off when it’s supposed to a be marketing tool to entice – but this trailer for Tom Hooper’s Cats does just that – in spades. They’re pitching this adaptation of [...]

July 19, 2019

Watch Jill Gervargizian’s Quirky Genre Short THE STYLIST

Movies In Focus first caught Jill Gervargizian’s The Stylist at the Mayhem Film Festival back in 2016. I was impressed by it because it’s a highly effective short film, filled with dark humour, impressive visuals and strong production [...]

July 19, 2019

Highway To The Danger Zone: Trailer & Poster For TOP GUN: MAVERICK

We’ve been waiting over thirty years, but Tom Cruise is finally flying back into the danger zone. Cruise returns to the role of Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in Joseph Kosinski’s follow-up to the 1986 smash hit Top Gun. This new [...]

July 19, 2019

They Shall Not Grow Up: Trailer & Poster For Kevin Smith’s JAY AND SILENT BOB REBOOT

As a man of a certain age, Movies In Focus is almost genetically predisposed to like Kevin Smith‘s View Askew movies. Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back et al, I enjoy them. Have you got a problem with that? [...]

July 18, 2019

Scaring The IT Out Of You: Trailer For IT CHAPTER 2

The first instalment of Andy Muschietti’s 2017 adaptation of Stephen King‘s IT was surprising on two levels. One: it grossed over $327 million at the US box office and more than $700 million globally. Two: it was actually pretty great. [...]

July 18, 2019

Christoph Waltz Is Back As Blofeld In BOND 25

Blofeld is back! Christoph Waltz will reprise the iconic role of Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the 25th James Bond adventure. The action film is currently shooting in London, with Daniel Craig once again playing Ian Fleming’s suave [...]

July 13, 2019

Don Johnson & Daniel Craig In The Trailer For Rian Johnson’s KNIVES OUT

Movies In Focus loves a whodunnit. It’s a trait I inherited from my mother (boy, does she love a good murder). Therefore I was already sold on Last Jedi director Rian Johnson‘s Agatha Christie inspired Knives Out. Throw in the [...]

July 2, 2019

Sylvester Stallone Agrees With Movies In Focus: Escape Plan 2 Is The Most Horribly Produced Film

Sylvester Stallone has been doing the promo for the fun Escape Plan 3: The Extractors. It follows hot in the heels of the atrocious Escape Plan 2: Hades – one of the very few films Movies In Focus has ever given just one star (read the [...]

July 1, 2019

Competition: Win The Brilliant Horror Film THE WITCH IN THE WINDOW On DVD

Andy Mitton’s brilliant The Witch In The Window will be released on DVD in the UK by Network on 8 July. To celebrate this horror masterpiece hitting the streets, Movies In Focus is giving away two copies of the film on DVD. Read the Movies In [...]

June 29, 2019

Movie Review Cover Quotes Never Get Old

Movies In Focus been doing the whole movie review thing for well over a decade now and I’m always excited when I score a poster/DVD/blu-ray cover quote. It’s a validation of sorts and at the very least it shows that someone, somewhere [...]

June 29, 2019

Video: On Set With Daniel Craig & BOND 25 In Jamaica

It’s safe to assume that the 25th James Bond film has had a few stumbling blocks since it was given the green-light. First there was the very public parting of ways with director Danny Boyle. Then came Daniel Craig’s ankle injury [...]

June 25, 2019

The Best Scene In Tim Burton’s BATMAN

Tim Burton‘s Batman is 30 years old. It’s crazy to write that – I remember seeing it on the big screen back in 1989. I was nine years old. Thirty years before 1989 was 1959 – a very different era. The world went Batman crazy [...]

June 23, 2019

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