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Remembering Carrie Fisher

The great Carrie Fisher will forever be associated with the Star Wars movies. After all, Fisher played the iconic Princess Leia across six films in the George Lucas originated franchise. However, there was much more to Fisher than that one role. She [...]

December 27, 2021

Behind The Scenes: John Wayne & John Ford On The Set Of THE SEARCHERS

Has there ever been filmmaking duo quite like John Wayne and John Ford? You could potentially argue a few pairings – but the Wayne and Ford partnership delivered 14 films between 1939 and 1963, leading to some of the best work of their [...]

December 9, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Gareth Edwards & George Lucas On The Set Of ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

A Dirty Dozen type men (and woman) on a mission movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story stays faithful to the aesthetic style of George Lucas’ 1977 game-changer. Gareth Edwards’ 2016 film creates a lot of characters but none of them have the spark [...]

August 5, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Rian Johnson & Mark Hamill On The Set of STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi has more than other Star Wars movies; some of it hits, some of it doesn’t. The much publicised Porgs work for a moment or two, but they outstay their welcome. The film drew to a halt too many times [...]

February 7, 2021

STAR WARS: GALAXY’S EDGE Looks Like The Coolest Thing Ever

Movies In Focus can be something of a cinematic curmudgeon. I know it – and hey, sometimes I revel in it. When you hit a certain age it’s easy to lose a certain amount of youthful vibrance and you forget what it was like to have been a [...]

May 30, 2019

Behind The Scenes Of STAR WARS: Vader, Tarkin And Skywalker Just Hanging Out

Behind-the-scenes images from classic movies are always worth a look. Here’s David Prowse (Darth Vader) and Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin) on the set of 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope hanging out with an off-duty Mark Hamill (Luke [...]

November 28, 2018

Video: Tour The Millennium Falcon With Lando Calrissian

Ever wanted to tour the Millennium Falcon Cribs-style with Lando Calrissian? If you have then your dream has come true. Watch as Donald Glover takes you around his pristine spaceship, showing-off his cape room and other assorted goodies. What the [...]

May 3, 2018

Behind The Scenes Of STAR WARS: A Little Relaxed For Stormtroopers?

Mark Hamill looking excited and Harrison Ford looking a tad grumpy – yep, it’s gotta be behind the scenes of George Lucas’ Star Wars (aka Star Wars: A New Hope). Shot during the Death Star sequences of the film, this shows Hamill [...]

February 27, 2018

Review: STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Fails To Make The Jump To Lightspeed

Beware! There be SPOILERS! In 2015 the dormant Star Wars franchise was reawakened by J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens (read the Movies In Focus review), a gloriously faithful movie to George Lucas’ beloved original trilogy. The film [...]

December 16, 2017

The OBI-WAN KENOBI Movie Is Our Only STAR WARS Hope

Of all the Star Wars spin-off/prequel movie ideas that Disney and Lucasfilm could use, the only one that makes real sense is an Ob-Wan Kenobi movie. We’ve seen the character old with Alec Guinness in 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope and [...]

August 17, 2017

Ron Howard Tells Us That There Won’t Be A Death Star In The UNTITLED HAN SOLO MOVIE

The internet (film-wise, anyway) went nuts with stories that the Death Star will make an appearance in Ron Howard’s Untitled Han Solo Movie. Howard Tweeted the below image (with the caption ‘The Empire Looms Large’) and it caused [...]

August 17, 2017

STAR WARS: The First Look At Luke Skywalker

Mark Hamill believes this image is the first time Luke Skywalker was ever caught on camera in costume. Taken in the Tunisian desert, this is from Hamill’s first day on the set of George Lucas’ Star Wars (aka Star Wars: A New Hope) in [...]

March 19, 2017

Obituary: Carrie Fisher 1960 – 2016

Actress and writer Carrie Fisher has died at the age of 60 years old. She suffered a heart attack on 23 December on a flight from London to Los Angeles before passing away four days later on 27 December. Fisher will forever be associated with the [...]

December 29, 2016

Review: ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Disappoints

A spoiler-filled review of Gareth Edward’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the worst theatrically released Star Wars yet. I know that many will lambast the work that George Lucas did in this prequel trilogy, [...]

December 20, 2016

Review: STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS – The Film Fans Have Wanted Since 1983 (Spoiler Free)

This review is spoiler-free! It was never going to be easy. Following up the original Star Wars trilogy was a difficult task for its creator George Lucas and his prequel trilogy was met with a lot of criticism and backlash. Star Wars fans have long [...]

December 19, 2015