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The Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century…So Far

Movies In Focus was inspired to put together a Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century list after reading the recent piece in Empire which listed the top movies of the century as voted for by the magazine’s readers. It was a pretty damning list [...]

January 21, 2020

Final Poster For Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT

Gone Baby Gone, The Town and Argo – Ben Affleck has a great track recored as director. I don’t think Live By Night will be ruining that streak. Here’s the latest (and I believe final) poster for Affleck’s Prohibition drama [...]

December 5, 2016

Calculate Your Choices With The Poster For Ben Affleck’s THE ACCOUNTANT

Ben Affleck’s The Accountant looks like a stonking grown-up thriller. The trailer delivers everything you would want from this type of movie (check it out here) and this new poster attempts something a little different. Affleck might be doing [...]

May 26, 2016

Bryan Cranston’s Real Life Hollywood Tale TRUMBO Might Just Score Awards Gold

Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood. That means Trumbo shouldn’t be ruled out as major contender when the awards season rolls around. Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston plays Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter who penned the [...]

August 15, 2015

Get Ready For THE BATMAN In 2018; Ben Affleck To Star-In And Direct Solo Dark Knight Adventure

It was pretty much a given that Warner Bros wanted Ben Affleck to star in and direct a solo Batman adventure. It looks like the studio got its wish. Latino Review is reporting that Affleck will don the cowl and wield the megaphone on the set of a [...]

June 24, 2015

Perfect Casting: Ben Affleck Is BATMAN

Ben Affleck is Batman and he’s the perfect fit for the latest screen incarnation of Bob Kane’s iconic superhero. I’ve seriously thought that Affleck would make a great Batman for about fifteen years (going back to Good Will Hunting and [...]

August 25, 2013

ARGO & THE ARTIST: Hollywood Loves Movies About Movies

The 2012 and 2013 Academy Awards saw films centered on Hollywood win the Best Film award. Michel Hazanavicius’s silent film, The Artist won the hearts of the Academy in 2012, while the 2013 awards saw Ben Affleck’s Argo score the top honour. The [...]

March 11, 2013

The BAFTA Film Awards 2013 Winners List

Ben Affleck’s career resurgence is now complete. Affleck’s Argo scored three Baftas last night in London (I was there, but more on that later), and it really does look like the thriller will take home the best picture at the Academy Awards – [...]

February 11, 2013

Box Office: IDENTITY THEFT Steals #1; WARM BODIES Hot & SIDE EFFECTS Sidelined

Bad weather and poor reviews couldn’t stop the terrible looking Identity Theft from stealing the top spot at the box office. The Melissa McCarthy/Jason Bateman comedy looks set to score $34 million over the weekend – about a million shy of its [...]

February 9, 2013

Weekend Box Office Lowdown: 5th November, 2012

Wreck It Ralph will score the top spot at the box office, grossing an impressive $49 million. That puts it in a good position to score some serious bank over the holiday season. Not that I care. Robert Zemeckis’ return to live action filmmaking, [...]

November 5, 2012

Warner Bros And Ben Affleck FOCUS On Kristen Stewart

The Twilight juggernaut is finally coming to an end for Kristen Stewart, so she’s trying her best to forge a career outside the Vampire-romance franchise. She’s taken on a variety of roles in recent years, but none have really set the world on [...]

November 4, 2012

Affleck’s Advice

Argo director Ben Affleck said that when he came to star-in and direct The Town (2010) he asked three men for advice – fellow actor-directors Kevin Costner, Robert Redford and Warren Beatty. Affleck said: “The one thing they all said to me, [...]

October 11, 2012

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