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Dressed To Kill: Go Gaga Over The Trailer For Ridley Scott’s All-Star HOUSE OF GUCCI

The first trailer for Ridley Scott‘s House Of Gucci has dropped – and it’s a good one. This is an energetic piece of marketing which helps sell the film and it’s all-star cast Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jeremy [...]

July 30, 2021

Don Cheadle Says Steven Soderbergh Is ‘Thinking About’ OCEAN’S 14

The great Steven Soderbergh‘s Ocean’s 11 turns 20 in 2021. The film now seems like a quaint piece of filmmaking, but it scored $450 million at the worldwide box office and spawned two successful sequels (Ocean’s 12 and [...]

June 30, 2021

Notebook Reviews: ANY GIVEN SUNDAY

Oliver Stone – 1999 Oliver Stone is at the top of his game with this sports-based drama which features a fantastic cast – Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool, Matthew Modine, Aaron Eckhart and the [...]

March 25, 2021

Prêt-à-Porter: Adam Driver & Lady Gaga In The First Image From Ridley Scott’s HOUSE OF GUCCI

The ever-busy Ridley Scott‘s House Of Gucci has an impressive cast. Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Jared Leto and Jack Huston star in the film which is ‘about the tumultuous Gucci family fashion dynasty and the murder [...]

March 10, 2021

Apple To Make Ridley Scott’s KITBAG; Joaquin Phoenix To Play Napoleon Bonaparte In The Historical Epic

Apple Studios is set to finance and produce Ridley Scott‘s Kitbag, a Napoleon Bonaparte biopic set to star Joaquin Phoenix. Deadline is reporting that Phoenix will reunite with his Gladiator director to play the French emperor and military [...]

January 14, 2021

Trailer & Featurette For THE GODFATHER, CODA: THE DEATH OF MICHAEL CORLEONE

In an era of wacky cinematic recuts (I’m looking Justice League), Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone might just be the most intriguing. The release is a recut version of 1990’s little regarded [...]

November 17, 2020

Notebook Reviews: THE GODFATHER

Francis Ford Coppola – 1972 The Godfather is Francis Ford Coppola‘s epic masterpiece. Coppola’s 1972 adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel is richly textured with top-notch acting from a brilliant cast (Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, [...]

November 6, 2020

Francis Ford Coppola Delivers New Cut Of THE GODFATHER PART III

The general consensus is that The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are cinematic masterpieces, but that The Godfather Part III is…something of a disappointment. Even Francis Ford Coppola knows this and now the 81 year old auteur has [...]

September 4, 2020

Say Hello To My Little Friend! Al Pacino & Brian De Palma On The Set Of SCARFACE

Switching booze for cocaine and transposing the action from Chicago to Miami, Scarface updates the Howard Hawks/Howard Hughes gangster movie from 1932 and delivers an iconic piece of cinema which has now surpassed the original in terms of legacy. [...]

August 30, 2020

Movies In Focus At The 2020 EE BAFTA Film Awards And The Full Winners List

Sunday 2 February 2020 was the day when the film industry donned its finest (recycled) clothing before descending on London’s Royal Albert Hall for the 2020 EE British Academy Film Awards. Movies In Focus once again attended the event, [...]

February 3, 2020

Movies In Focus’ Photography From The 2020 EE BAFTA Awards

February once again rolled around and that meant that Movies In Focus was again in attendance at the 2020 EE British Academy Film Awards. You can read all about my exploits and see the full winners list – or check-out below for [...]

February 3, 2020

Academy Awards 2020: Joker Leads The Oscar Pack

It’s not really a surprise that the multi-award winning, billion dollar grossing Joker is leading the pack with 11 nominations at the 2020 Academy Awards. If I were a betting man, I’d say that Joaquin Phoenix is a lock to win the Best [...]

January 14, 2020

Warren Beatty And Madonna On The Set Of DICK TRACY

Dick Tracy is one of those 1990s curiosities which seems to have been forgotten in the mists of time. If you’re young, you might not even know it exists. However, in the summer of 1990 Warren Beatty‘s movie was everywhere. Based on the [...]

January 11, 2020

The 2020 Golden Globes Full Nominations List

It’s easy to become cynical when you write about movies. You get to see the good, the bad and the ugly and sometimes that makes you jaded. However, there’s nothing like watching quality movies succeed and when you see the list of [...]

December 9, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE

“Say hello to my little friend!” The general belief is that remakes are a very bad thing. Yes, sometimes that is true, but other times that is Scarface. Written by Oliver Stone and directed by Brian De Palma, this remake of the the [...]

November 4, 2019

Return To Innocence: The New Trailer For THE IRISHMAN

Look, we all know that Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is going to be good. Great even. But we’re all curious about the de-ageing technology which is going to make it’s stars (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel and Joe Pesci) [...]

September 28, 2019

Trailer For Martin Scorsese’s Much Anticipated THE IRISHMAN

The gangster movie dream team of Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel join forces for Martin Scorsese‘s long-awaited The Irishman. Netflix has dropped over $150 million on this decades-spanning crime film and the majority of [...]

August 1, 2019

Imagine This: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Pics

Quentin Tarantino’s One Upon A Time In Hollywood is one of the must-see movies of 2019. The Charles Manson/Sharon Tate pic has an epic cast Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino (and others) and an intriguing premise. This [...]

January 26, 2019

First Look At Margot Robbie As Sharon Tate In Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

The first official image of Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood has been released. It looks like Robbie dressed in 1960s garb. But does she really look like Tate? That’s debatable. But [...]

August 6, 2018

First Look At Brad Pitt And Leonardo DiCaprio In ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

Quentin Tarantino’s next (and apparently penultimate) film has started shooting – and the first official image from Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has dropped. The photograph (shared by Leonardo DiCaprio on Instagram) shows Brad Pitt And [...]

June 29, 2018

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