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OSCARS 2023: A Full List Of The 95th Academy Awards Nominations

Movies In Focus is just going to say this up front – I want Top Gun: Maverick to win Best Picture at the 2023 Academy Awards. The reason being is that it’s a crowd pleaser – a movie. A Hollywood movie. It deserves to win. It would [...]

January 24, 2023

Return Of The King: Austin Butler & Tom Hanks In The Trailer For Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS

Movies In Focus is no fan of Baz Luhrmann‘s cinematic style. It’s too in your face, too OTT. Therefore I’m not particularly looking forward to Elvis, his new movie starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks. Taking away my dislike [...]

February 18, 2022

Notebook Reviews: MOULIN ROUGE!

Baz Luhrmann – 2001 Moulin Rouge! is a stylish and energetic musical from director Baz Luhrmann. The film features a punchy soundtrack and enthusiastic dance numbers, which sit alongside huge, impressively designed sets (the film looks [...]

March 9, 2021

Don’t Do It! Tom Hanks To Play Colonel Tom Parker In Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Pic

We can all agree that Tom Hanks is a great actor and he’ll probably turn in an impressive performance as the villainous Colonel Tom Parker in a movie about Elvis Presley. Parker was the man who made Elvis a star, but he was also a machiavelian [...]

March 30, 2019

Review: Baz Luhrmann’s THE GREAT GATSBY Is A Failure

I went into Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby with great trepidation. As a fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, I was worried that Luhrmann’s style would clash with the world of Fitzgerald’s tale. It should be no shock to say that it does. The [...]

March 22, 2014