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Bafta: Rebel Wilson To Host The 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards

It has been announced that Rebel Wilson will host the 75th EE British Academy Film Awards. The BAFTA ceremony will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 13 March 2022 and be broadcast on BBC One (and HD) and BBC iPlayer. Wilson, who [...]

January 14, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Tom Hardy’s TABOO

First hitting screens in 2017, Tom Hardy’s Taboo is a dark and dense eight-part series filled with grit and gravel. It’s uncompromising in its vision and Hardy’s James Delaney is a dark anti-hero who cuts a brooding figure as he rumbles [...]

January 5, 2022

Trailer: It Ain’t No Powell and Pressburger But BLACK NARCISSUS Doesn’t Look Bad

Movies In Focus has to admit that the new adaptation of Rumer Godden’s Black Narcissus looks good. It’s obviously taking a lot of visual cues from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s classic 1947 film, but can’t blame the [...]

October 29, 2020

Trailer: Gemma Arterton Takes The Lead In The New Adaptation Of BLACK NARCISSUS

Black Narcissus is Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s crowning cinematic glory. Their 1947 film is a richly layered psychological melodrama that manages to engage through the visuals more than the script. What makes Black Narcissus special [...]

September 22, 2020

First Full Trailer For Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss’ DRACULA Has Some Serious Bite

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one tale that can stand multiple interpretations. From F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu to Todd Browning’s Dracula through to Christopher Lee‘s iconic turn and beyond, it’s a character that can be [...]

December 14, 2019

You Need To Watch Mark Kermode’s THE FEAR OF GOD: 25 YEARS OF THE EXORCIST

Mark Kermode isn’t just one of the UK’s great film critics, but he’s also the leading authority on William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. In fact, he literally wrote the book on it. His 1998 BBC documentary, The Fear of God: 25 [...]

November 2, 2019

DVD Review: THE GOODIES – THE COMPLETE BBC COLLECTION

Monty Python meets The Monkees – that’s the easy pitch for classic ’70s comedy show, The Goodies. Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie are the trio of do gooders (or should that be goodies) in this huge collection which [...]

October 1, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Tom Hardy Takes A Dark Journey Through A Grimy London In The Exceptional TABOO

Tom Hardy’s Taboo is a totally enthralling experience. This dark and dense eight-part series is filled with grit and gravel. It’s uncompromising in its vision and Hardy’s James Delaney is a dark anti-hero who cuts a brooding figure as he [...]

May 21, 2017

Tom Hardy Goes Native In The Trailer For The BBC’s TABOO

The constantly busy Tom Hardy reteams with Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Locke) for Taboo, a new BBC drama that Hardy and Knight are producing with Ridley Scott. That impressive pedigree gives Taboo a lot of potential and it looks like it will be [...]

February 27, 2016

DVD Review: The BBC’s AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Is A Hugely Satisfying Whodunnit

The BBC has delivered a wonderful TV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Sarah Phelps writes and Craig Viveiros directs this three-part thriller which features an impressive line-up of actors (Charles Dance, Sam Neill, Toby [...]

January 9, 2016

Title And Poster For ‘Abominable’ Victorian Special Of SHERLOCK

The Victorian-set special for Sherlock has been without a title until now. This changed with the announcement that the feature length episode will be called The Abominable Bride. I don’t know if that gives away much of the plot – but it [...]

October 25, 2015

Get Transported Back To The Victorian Era With The SHERLOCK Special Trailer

Want to see more of the Sherlock special that sees Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman’s Doctor Watson transported back to the Victorian era? Then check it out below. Earlier in the year Movies In Focus was on the set of [...]

October 8, 2015

DVD Review: Is JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL TV Magic?

The lines between television and film are now blurred. What was once seen as the poor relation is now the place that’s pushing boundaries in storytelling. The big screen may have always had the scope for spectacle but that’s no longer the case. [...]

July 1, 2015

DVD Review: INDIAN SUMMERS Is Hot Stuff

Based on the last years of the British Raj in India, Indian Summers is an epic television drama set in the summer of 1932. The series is written by Paul Rutman and producer Charlie Pattinson, who recently worked on the BBC show The Missing. [...]

April 27, 2015

Gillian Anderson And Jamie Dornan To Return For THE FALL Series 3

The Fall is one of the best television series ever been produced in the UK (read a review The Fall Series 2) and it’s great seeing it return for a third (and likely final series). Both Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan will be back, reprising [...]

March 11, 2015

You Know Nothing Jon Snow: Kit Harrington In New Trailer And Posters for SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD

I’ve never watched the BBC series Spooks and I get the feeling that I won’t need to in order to enjoy this bigscreen spin-off starring Game of Thrones’ Kit Harrington, Peter Firth and Jennifer Ehle. It looks like it does the espionage [...]

January 31, 2015

The DOCTOR Scores A WHO-le Lotta Cash On The Big Screen

The incredibly flaccid Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor banked £1.89 million ($2.9 million) worth of green from 440 cinemas in the UK. That puts the special third at the UK box office behind box office juggernauts, The [...]

November 26, 2013

DVD Review: THE WHITE QUEEN Has Loose Buckles But Very Little Swash

Since the mid-1990s, BBC has long been the home for Sunday night costume dramas. The success of Pride and Prejudice saw the channel tap-into an audience interest of watching times gone by before they greet the dreaded Monday morning. Recent times [...]

August 17, 2013

Matt Smith Leaves DOCTOR WHO

I don’t dig Doctor Who. I just can’t get into it. I want to, I really do, but there’s some disconnect. I’m not quite sure what it is. This means the news that Matt Smith is leaving the show hasn’t rocked my world. Now everyone will start [...]

June 2, 2013