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Movies In Focus had a great time covering the 2020 BFI London Film Festival. I didn’t quite get to see as many titles as I would have liked, but the festival featured [...] -
Despite dedicated performances from Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, Francis Lee’s Ammonite is as bleak and dour as the film’s wintry Lyme Regis setting. Named [...] -
Written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, Possessor is a tricksy and complex thriller which takes a potentially commercial concept and gives it an arthouse spin. At times [...] -
In the 1960s Patrick McGoohan starred as John Drake in Danger Man, and then as Number 6 in Danger Man’s unofficial spin-off The Prisoner, a surreal but iconic show that [...] -
The success of John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978 inspired a slew of imitators (and sequels) throughout the 1980’s, but none would come close to matching the genius [...] -
A film about a couple self-isolating in the countryside because one of them has a virus. The need to wear masks and stay away from others – this is not the plot of a [...] -
It’s hard to believe that Richard Stanley’s Hardware is celebrating its 25th anniversary. This science fiction horror marked Stanley’s directorial debut and it showed [...] -
Michael Bay – 2001 Michael Bay’s epic blockbuster features some spectacular action and special effects. Pearl Harbor has the usual Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael [...] -
The mighty Bruce Springsteen has become a cross-generational icon. He’s now more than a musician, he’s one of the great artists of the last century. Over the last [...] -
A powerhouse performance piece, Regina King’s One Night In Miami is a near flawless adaptation of Kemp Powers’ (fictional) play which sees Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim [...]
