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Get Ready For Hunting Season: Teaser For Predator Prequel PREY

20th Century Studios has announced that Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator prequel, Prey is coming to US screens via Hulu on 5 August 2002. The news comes alongside a 45 second teaser trailer which lets us know that the franchise is going in a very [...]

May 16, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Michael Petroni’s BACKTRACK

Writer-director Michael Petroni’s 2015 film, Backtrack is a surprising horror movie that’s much better than a lot of recent genre releases. This well-acted Australian chiller stars Adrien Brody as a psychologist who must face past demons in [...]

July 31, 2021

Notebook Reviews: SUMMER OF SAM

Spike Lee – 1999 Summer Of Sam is an unfocused and messy film from Spike Lee. While Lee wants to show how the Son Of Sam killings impacted the people of the Bronx in 1976, it never connects on a human level and most of the film’s [...]

January 18, 2021

New PREDATOR Movie From 10 Cloverfield Lane Director Dan Trachtenberg

Do we need a new Predator film? No. However, you can’t keep a good franchise down. News has broke that 20th Century Studios has hired 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg to dust-off the intergalactic dreadlocks and direct the fifth [...]

November 21, 2020

Take Me Back… First Trailer For Wes Anderson’s ALL-Star Comedy THE FRENCH DISPATCH

Movies In Focus adores the visual aesthetic of Wes Anderson‘s films. I was captured by his work when I first saw Rushmore way back in 1999 and I’ve been a fan ever since. Anderson’s movies look great. but they also have a [...]

February 12, 2020

Competition: Win THE BOMBING Starring Bruce Willis & Adrien Brody On DVD

The Bombing starring Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody hits DVD and Digital HD on 29 October. To celebrate Movies In Focus is giving away a DVD copy of the film to one lucky reader of the site. The synopsis: This pulse-pounding war epic centres around [...]

October 10, 2018

DVD Review: Adrien Brody And Sam Neill Star In Atmospheric Chiller BACKTRACK

Writer-director Michael Petroni’s Backtrack is a surprising horror movie that’s much better than a lot of recent genre releases. This well-acted Australian chiller stars Adrien Brody as a psychologist who must face past demons in order to solve [...]

March 6, 2016

It’s John Cusack Vs Jackie Chan In The Trailer For Historical Actioner DRAGON BLADE

I’m not sure anyone would have predicted that a $65 million historical action movie starring John Cusack, Jackie Chan and Adrien Brody would ever be made (it must be one of the oddest casting combinations of all time). If someone wanted it, they [...]

December 28, 2014

DVD Review: HOUDINI Mini-Series Starring Adrien Brody Lacks Magic

One day someone will make a great movie or television series about the life of the great Houdini. Sadly this Adrien Brody starring two-part mini-series isn’t it. The show isn’t a total bust; it’s a handsome looking production and Brody is good [...]

October 11, 2014

DVD Review: Owen Wilson In Woody Allen’s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

It’s pretty much standard to hail every new Woody Allen film as a “return to form”. Now, Midnight in Paris may not be vintage Allen, but it is one of his finer efforts in recent years, and like many of Allen’s films over the last decade or [...]

February 24, 2012