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Satanic Cinema: New Trailer For CATS

I really don’t know how to describe how bad the big screen version of Cats looks. Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage musical looks bad. Like really, really bad. If you ever wanted to know what burning $150 [...]

November 19, 2019

Competition: Win Ron Howard’s PAVAROTTI On Blu-ray

In his latest documentary Pavarotti, two-time Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard celebrates the life of the beloved opera star Luciano Pavarotti, who sold over 100 million records in his lifetime. Pavarotti is available now on Digital [...]

November 18, 2019

Nicolas Cage Has THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT

You can love him or loathe him but Nicolas Cage works like a trooper (Movies In Focus is in the former category). He’s got the great looking Primal set for release alongside Color Out Of Space and now he’s signed-on to the meta-comedy [...]

November 16, 2019

Easy Bubba! They’ve Only Gone And Decided To Bring Back NASH BRIDGES

You won’t find a bigger fan of Don Johnson than Movies In Focus. Forget the current ‘golden age of television’ Miami Vice and Nash Bridges are where TV really peaked. There are rumblings that Don Johnson will be stepping back into [...]

November 16, 2019

Trailer: Ben Affleck Is FINDING THE WAY BACK

Movies In Focus thinks Finding The Way (also known as Torrance and The Way Back) back is going to deliver the goods in a big, big way. The Gavin O’Connor directed drama appears to have an incredibly strong Ben Affleck performance and I get [...]

November 14, 2019

MOST Comic Book Superhero Movies Aren’t Cinema

There’s currently a war raging. There are those who believe that comic book superhero movies aren’t cinema in the truest sense of the word and there are those who believe these movies are wonderful examples of what the art of the [...]

November 13, 2019

Forget The Chariots! Behind The Scenes Of BEN-HUR With Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd

There’s something captivating about photographs of actors on-set doing something which is the antithesis of the character they are supposed to be portraying on-screen. This is even more exciting when it’s an older movie. Case in point [...]

November 9, 2019

Trailer For Richard Stanley’s Mind-bending Nicolas Cage Sci-Fi Starrer COLOR OUT OF SPACE

Movies In Focus caught Richard Stanley’s mind-bending H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out Of Space at the 2019 Mayhem Film Festival. It’s pretty far-out there on a story and visual level (as you would expect) but there’s enjoyment [...]

November 9, 2019

Colin Farrell & Andy Serkis In The Frame For The Penguin & Alfred Pennyworth In THE BATMAN

The great Colin Farrell is one seriously left field choice for Oswald Cobblepot AKA The Penguin in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Farrell has the dark looks, he’s got the acting chops but he doesn’t have the…physique and stature [...]

November 7, 2019

Stupid! They Want A CGI James Dean For FINDING JACK

Sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with the stupidity of some filmmakers. Casting a great actor in a movie is one thing, casting a cinematic icon who has been dead since 1955 and recreating him via CGI is just dumb. I could write thousands of [...]

November 7, 2019

Well That’s One Way To Do It! First Trailer For THE INVISIBLE MAN

Who would have imagined that Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions would have figured out an intriguing (and pretty impressive) way to bring back the long dormant Invisible Man franchise for the 21st Century? The character, created by H.G. [...]

November 7, 2019

You Need To Watch Mark Kermode’s THE FEAR OF GOD: 25 YEARS OF THE EXORCIST

Mark Kermode isn’t just one of the UK’s great film critics, but he’s also the leading authority on William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. In fact, he literally wrote the book on it. His 1998 BBC documentary, The Fear of God: 25 [...]

November 2, 2019

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