50 shades of grey

UK Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Clip From BOOK CLUB

Movies In Focus is a huge fan of films starring…people of a certain age. Therefore I was very cool with being given the opportunity to host this UK exclusive Behind The Scenes clip for the hit comedy Book Club. Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, [...]

October 1, 2018

Trailer: Naomi Watts & Billy Crudup Star In Netflix’s GYPSY

Naomi Watts and Movies In Focus favourite Billy Crudup star in the new Netflix series Gypsy (it hits on 30 June). Crudup always delivers – not matter what the role – but the big selling point here is Watts and Fifty Shades Of [...]

June 8, 2017

50 Shades Of Dornan: A Look At The Career Of Jamie Dornan

Based on an extraordinary true story, Anthropoid follows the daring plot by two Czechoslovakian agents to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and third in command of the Nazi forces behind Hitler [...]

January 26, 2017

It’s Karaoke Time For Ralph Fiennes And Tilda Swinton In This New Clip For A BIGGER SPLASH

The Big Splash looks like a cinematic gin and tonic. A refreshing movie for those who like their movies with a bitter bite The below clip features Ralph Fiennes singing karaoke – how can you not want to watch that? The synopsis: A Bigger [...]

January 16, 2016

BAFTA 2016 EE Rising Star Award Nominees

The BAFTA Rising Star Award is an important award because it’s voted by the people, for the people. 2016 has an impressive line-up of nominees for the accolade which has previously been taken home by the likes of James McAvoy, Kristen [...]

January 5, 2016

Blu-ray Review: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY – Kinky Twilight Fan-Fiction For Middle-Aged Women

E.L. James was a middle-aged woman who was a huge fan of the the Stephanie Meyer’s young-adult Twilight novels. She did what any self respecting middle-aged woman would do … and cranked out some online fan fiction, upping the sex quota and [...]

June 21, 2015

Get Teased For FIFTY SHADES DARKER And FIFTY SHADES FREED

Movies In Focus writes a lot about Fifty Shades Of Grey (and now its sequels) not because of some kinky interest in the film or book but because of a fascination with the creative black hole from whence the whole endeavour came. A multi-million [...]

April 25, 2015

Gillian Anderson And Jamie Dornan To Return For THE FALL Series 3

The Fall is one of the best television series ever been produced in the UK (read a review The Fall Series 2) and it’s great seeing it return for a third (and likely final series). Both Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan will be back, reprising [...]

March 11, 2015

DVD Review: Gillian Anderson And Jamie Dornan In THE FALL Series 2

Movies in Focus can often be very critical of British television. Even when it’s firing on all cylinders on a script level, it never feels like it pushes the boundaries on a story telling or visual level. However, that changed with The Fall [...]

January 1, 2015

Some People Will Be Interested In This Trailer For FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

Fifty Shades of Grey looks like Twilight for those in their twilight years, Divergent for deviants, or even The Hunger Games for people who like raunchy games. Whatever the case, it opens on Valentine’s Day 2015. [...]

November 15, 2014

Jamie Dornan Is Coming Soon As Christian Grey in 50 SHADES OF GREY

Why do I keep talking about Fifty Shades of Grey? I think it’s because I can unleash a whole lot of puns and double entendres. It’s sure as hell not because I think the film will be any good. Anyway, it has now been confirmed that Irish [...]

October 26, 2013

Charlie Hunnam Won’t Drop Trou; Drops Out Of 50 SHADES OF GREY

Charlie Hunnam has dropped out (rather than drop trou) of Fifty Shades Of Grey. The official word is that “the filmmakers of Fifty Shades Of Grey and Charlie Hunnam have agreed to find another male lead given Hunnam’s immersive TV schedule [...]

October 13, 2013

Johnson & Hunnam In 50 SHADES OF GREY; TWILIGHT With Less Ham & More Pork?

I don’t want to write about the 50 Shades of Grey movie casting – but I feel I must. Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunnam will play Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in the big screen adaptation of EL James’ novel. It’s a tome which has [...]

September 3, 2013

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson To Crack The Whip On 50 SHADES OF GREY

Sam Taylor-Johnson, the director of John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy has landed the directing gig on 50 Shades Of Grey. Well, at least we’ve got that sorted. Directing duties on 50 Shades have been (bizarrely) much sought after, and it’s believed [...]

June 22, 2013

Have They Found The Wright Director For 50 SHADES OF GREY?

I will never read E.L. James’ 50 Shades of Grey (or is it Fifty Shades of Grey). Life’s too short to read soft-core porn that started out as Twilight fan-fiction. That’s no slight at soft-core porn, but it is at Twilight fan-fiction and/or [...]

May 11, 2013