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Podcast – Episode 20: Lorne Balfe Talks About Composing The Music For TOP GUN: MAVERICK

Actors, writers, directors and producers all have key roles in production – but one of the most important aspects in a film is the musical score – a score can literally make or break a film. Composer Lorne Balfe joins the Movies In [...]

June 10, 2022

How Michael Bay Paid Homage To Himself With PEARL HARBOR

Love him or loathe him, you can’t deny that Michael Bay is one hell of a visual stylist. The director has made some exceptional action films – The Rock, The Bad Boys movies, Armageddon and Pearl Harbor all work on a wonderful cinematic [...]

June 11, 2020

Whatcha Gonna Do? BAD BOYS FOR LIFE Trailer

Look, we probably don’t need a third Bad Boys movie – but damn, I’m going to watch it anyway. The first Michael Bay movie was slick Simpson/Bruckherimer actioner but the second film took things to another level. It was a [...]

September 7, 2019

Trailer & Poster For The Bruckheimer-Lee-Smith Sci-Fi Actioner GEMINI MAN

Movies In Focus is a massive lover of Jerry Bruckheimer’s special brand of action extravaganza. Movies like Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Gone In Sixty Seconds, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, Con Air, Enemy Of The Sate and others – nobody [...]

July 26, 2019

Trailer: It’s An EYE FOR AN EYE For John Travolta & Morgan Freeman

If Eye For An Eye (aka Poison Rose) was made 20 years ago it would have had a big budget, a large marketing push and it would probably have grossed $100 million. However, we’re now in 2019 and the world of movies has changed – and that [...]

June 11, 2019

Bad Boys Ain’t For Life! No More BAD BOYS 3 For Joe Carnahan

Joe Carnahan is a vibrant writer/director with serious cojones. Narc and The Grey are some of the best hombre movies of the last 25 years and if Michael Bay wasn’t making a third film in the Bad Boy franchise then Smokin’ Joe was the [...]

March 8, 2017

Dear Michael Bay, Please Stop Making TRANSFORMERS Movies

Michael, I saw the above photograph and felt the need to say something. You don’t need the Transformers franchise. I know the films have grossed billions at the box office and they’ve enabled you to play with hundreds of millions of [...]

June 25, 2016

Big Bad Wolves Hunt Bruce Willis’ DEATH WISH

Bruce Willis has been attached to a Death Wish remake for the last few years. In fact, it was Willis’ signing to the film that caused director Joe Carnahan to leave the project because he felt that audiences would already buy Willis as a vigilante [...]

March 5, 2016