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Mel Gibson To Co-Write & Direct Remake Of Sam Peckinpah’s THE WILD BUNCH

If you asked me a few days ago if there should be a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, I would have said ‘hell no!”. But now I’m over the moon with the announcement that Mel Gibson will co-write (with Bryan Bagby) [...]

September 25, 2018

BUMBLEBEE Trailer: What Hell Is This?

The Transformers movies are the lowest kind of cinematic dreck. They’re a special kind of soulless CGI hell with zero plot and even less artistic integrity – but they just keep on coming (despite falling box office). Bumblebee is even [...]

September 24, 2018

Let’s Have A Look At Joaquin Phoenix’s JOKER

I think we can all agree that we probably don’t need a Joker movie from Todd Phillips. We’re getting one – so we have to live with that. What makes this bitter pill easier to swallow is that Joaquin Phoenix will be playing the [...]

September 22, 2018

Trailer For Netflix’s THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

Mike Flanagan directs The Haunting of Hill House, the new Netflix series adaptation of Shriley Jackson’s novel. The book has been adapted before – first as Robert Wise’s The Haunting in 1963, and then in 1999 by Jan de Bont (boy, I [...]

September 19, 2018

ROBIN HOOD: THE REBELLION – There’s Another Robin Hood Film In 2018!

Movies In Focus has been a fan of the Robin Hood legend since watching Robin Of Sherwood as a kid in the mid-1980s. Of course I like the Erroyl Flynn and Kevin Costner versions and even Ridley Scott’s Russell Crowe starrer has something to [...]

September 15, 2018

Competition: Win THE ROCKFORD FILES – Season One On Blu-ray

The first season of the rather brilliant 1970s detective series The Rockford Files hits blu-ray on 8 October. Movies In Focus is celebrating the occasion by offering three lucky readers to win the six disc set of the James Garner series on blu-ray. [...]

September 15, 2018

Competition: Win John Carpenter’s MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN On Blu-ray

John Carpenter’s Memoirs Of An Invisible Man starring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah and Sam Neill is getting a long-awaited DVD and blu-ray release in the UK on 1 October from Fabulous Films. To celebrate the occasion, Movies In Focus is giving [...]

September 15, 2018

Go Gaga For These Clips From Bradley Cooper’s A STAR IS BORN

The early buzz is that Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born is going to be a huge critical and commercial hit. Cooper plays an ageing music star whose career is on the downturn, while Lady Gaga is his protege on the rise. This is Cooper’s [...]

September 15, 2018

What The Hell? Henry Cavill Responds To SUPERMAN Axing Claim

Rumours are swirling that Henry Cavill has been canned as Superman and that Warner Bros. wants to take the character in a new direction. Anyway, Cavill has ‘responded’ to the news with the below Instagram post. I don’t know what to [...]

September 13, 2018

Trailer: Jonah Hill & Emma Stone Reunite For Netflix’s MANIAC

Cary Fukunaga directs Maniac, a new mind-bending series for Netflix that reunites Superbad co-stars Jonah Hill and Emma Stone. This is one hell of a quirky trailer for the series, which drops on the streaming service on 21 September. But might [...]

September 13, 2018

You’ll Believe A Man Can Cry: Henry Cavill Canned As SUPERMAN

Word on the street is that Warner Bros. will no longer be making films with Henry Cavill as Superman. The studio apparently wants to focus on its Supergirl movie rather than the Man Of Steel. According to Deadline: ”The word has been out that [...]

September 12, 2018

Competition: Win A Wacky Romance DVD Bundle

From the visionary minds of writer Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Lucifer, Stardust, Coraline, The Graveyard Book) and director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus) comes a story of the birth of punk, the exuberance of first [...]

September 7, 2018

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