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John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN Comes Back To The Big Screen For One Night Only

A restored and remastered digital print of John Carpenter‘s Halloween will play on big screens across the globe on Halloween night. SpectiCast (an event cinema marketing and distribution company) has joined forces with Compass International [...]

September 16, 2014

DVD Review: SCINTILLA Is An Enjoyable Hybrid Sci-Fi Movie

Scintilla (also known as The Hybrid) shows once again that you don’t need a mega budget to deliver a captivating science fiction feature. Writer/director Billy O’Brien’s film may not break new ground in a narrative sense, but it works as a [...]

July 19, 2014

Why THE EXPENDABLES 3 Is The Most Anticipated Movie Of Summer 2014

The Expendables 3 continues to be Movies In Focus’ most anticipated movie of this summer. Forget about battling Autobots, comic book sequels, updated fairy tales or young adult adaptations – Patrick Hughes’ action extravaganza is the movie [...]

July 9, 2014

Top 10 Big-Screen Robots

Robots have been a part of cinema since its creation and still make for intriguing on-screen presences. With RoboCop set for release on 9 June 2014, Movies in Focus counts down the most memorable movie cyborgs to have graced our screens. Evil [...]

June 4, 2014

First Look At Arnold Schwarzenegger And Emilia Clarke In TERMINATOR: GENESIS

I believe this is the first look of Game of Thrones actess Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor and Arnold Schwarzenegger as an ageing Terminator in Alan Taylor’s Terminator: Genesis. It looks like he really is back. Terminator: Genesis arrives in [...]

May 29, 2014

DVD Review: THE MACHINE Might Be Low Budget – But It’s Also Very Good

Low budget science fiction films are able to play with bigger themes than their larger budget counterparts. They don’t have to worry about appealing to a mass audience in order to recoup their cost, meaning that they can play a little fast and [...]

April 19, 2014

Audiences Should Embrace Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies – Not Ignore Them

Arnold Schwarzenegger is a legend. He’s an epic cinematic titan who became a box office behemoth in the 1980s and 1990s. He then cast his attention to politics, becoming the governor of California in 2003. Schwarzenegger left office in 2011, [...]

March 29, 2014

Blu-ray Review: ESCAPE PLAN Is Filled With Male Pattern Badness

Action fans have waited decades for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone to team-up, sure they shared the screen in The Expendables movies, but they were only the hors d’œuvre – Escape Plan is the main meal. It’s a [...]

March 16, 2014

Jai Courtney As Kyle Reese In TERMINATOR: GENESIS Isn’t Such A Bad Thing

A lot of people seem to have an issue with Jai Courtney – I really don’t know why. Admittedly, he did star opposite Bruce Willis in A Good Day To Die Hard, but let’s not hold that against him – as I said in my review of the [...]

February 21, 2014

Blu-ray Review: John Carpenter’s Classic Slasher HALLOWEEN

The horror genre can often (rightfully) be maligned. Many of the films within the genre are cheap exploitation films, whose filmmakers care more about monetary return than crafting a great movie. However, John Carpenter constructed an instant [...]

October 19, 2013

Arnold Schwarzenegger Joins The Walking Dead With Zombie Movie MAGGIE

Arnold Schwarzenegger will produce and star-in zombie film, Maggie for director Henry Hobson. I’m not quite sure what I think about this. I’m pretty sure that it’s a bad idea, but you never know. One thing’s for sure – the title has to [...]

June 22, 2013

DVD Review: Arnold Schwarzenegger In THE LAST STAND

The Last Stand is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first lead movie role in almost a decade. Fans of The Austrian Oak will not be disappointed – as it’s also his best film since True Lies in 1994. Schwarzenegger plays Ray Owens, the sheriff of [...]

May 24, 2013

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