ben wheatley

Uncovering Curiosities: Ben Wheatley’s FREE FIRE

Ben Wheatley’s 2016 film, Free Fire is a black comedy action film and an energetic piece of high-octane cinematic acid jazz. It’s a tightly scripted, smartly executed, perfectly cast actioner that’s as witty as it is violent. This is [...]

December 29, 2021

Trailer For Ben Wheatley’s Timely Horror Film IN THE EARTH

Director Ben Wheatley is once again bringing his own unique style of horror to the screen with In The Earth. Wheatley wrote and directed the film quickly during the summer of 2020 – a time when most of the world was still locked down due to [...]

June 17, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Ben Wheatley’s SIGHTSEERS

Sightseers is a pitch black comedy which pokes subtle fun at the blandness of middle-England. Director Ben Wheatley’s 2012 film highlights the potential evil lurking under every anorak and behind the wheel of every over-sized caravan. Sightseers [...]

May 26, 2021

Review: Chino Moya’s Dark Dystopian Sci-Fi Drama UNDERGODS

Chino Moya’s Undergods is a darkly comic dystopian drama which has a strong feeling of uneasiness running throughout. Set in an unnamed futuristic world, Moya’s film tells three stories which make The Tales Of The Unexpected seem like Looney [...]

May 9, 2021

New Poster & Trailer For Chino Moya’s Dystopian Nightmare UNDERGODS Ahead Of UK Release

Movies In Focus saw commercials and music video director Chino Moya’s feature debut Undergods at its world premiere during the 2020 Fantasia Festival. Deliberately opaque and obtuse, Moya’s film is a morality play about society and the [...]

April 13, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: John Boorman’s ZARDOZ

John Boorman’s Zardoz can be blamed for being a lot of things, but predictable isn’t one of them. This 1974 starrer for Sean Connery bucks convention on all levels and Boorman delivers one of the oddest science fiction movies ever to star an [...]

November 3, 2020

Trailer For Ben Wheatley’s REBECCA Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer & Kristin Scott Thomas

Netflix has dropped the first trailer for Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca, the new screen adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel. This looks like a change of pace for Wheatley, who usually does films with a darkly comic bent. All [...]

September 9, 2020

Fantasia Festival Review: Chino Moya’s Dystopian Drama UNDERGODS

August 31, 2020

Brilliant Poster & Trailer For Chino Moya’s Otherworldly Fantasy UNDERGODS

Commercials and music video director Chino Moya makes his feature debut with Undergods, a dystopian fantasy which will have its world premiere at the Fantasia Festival on 20 August. This is one mind-boggler of a trailer, but it looks (and sounds) [...]

August 16, 2020

Blu-ray Review: FREE FIRE Is Cocked, Locked And Ready To Rock!

Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire is an energetic piece of high-octane cinematic acid jazz. It’s a tightly scripted, smartly executed, perfectly cast actioner that’s as witty as it is violent. This is Wheatley’s most entertaining flick yet, an [...]

August 9, 2017

Review: Ben Wheatley’s FREE FIRE Is Absolutely Amazing!

March 14, 2017

New Trailer & Poster For Ben Wheatley’s Fantastic FREE FIRE

Movies In Focus recently caught Free Fire at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema, where director Ben Wheatley was in attendance for a Q&A session. He talked about how it came together and the difficulties of making a film that’s basically [...]

March 9, 2017

The Movies In Focus Recap Of MAYHEM 2016

Mayhem 2016 was yet another impressive year for the annual genre film festival which took at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema. Movies In Focus was once again on hand to sample the festival’s delights – and here’s the rundown of what [...]

October 17, 2016

Take Cover: The Trailer For Ben Wheatley’s FREE FIRE Hits Hard

Ben Wheatley is putting together one curious filmography. I’ll admit to being disappointed by his recent High-Rise (read the Movies In Focus review) but Free Fire looks like an interesting proposition. However, I think this trailer for the Martin [...]

September 10, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Tom Hiddleston Stars In Ben Wheatley’s HIGH-RISE

Director Ben Wheatley has quickly become a director to watch over the last few years having directed the quirky likes of Sightseers and A Field In England. He now ups the scope and the subtext with an adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise. The [...]

July 27, 2016

Blu-ray Review: John Boorman’s Trippy Sci-Fi Adventure ZARDOZ With Sean Connery

September 30, 2015

Interview: Chris Cooke And Steven Sheil Founders Of Nottingham’s MAYHEM FILM FESTIVAL

Broadway Cinema is Nottingham’s shining cinematic beacon, a wonderful establishment which plays host every year to the Mayhem Film Festival. Mayhem shows an eclectic selection of horror and sci-fi movies over the Halloween period, while also [...]

October 27, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Discover 26 Ways To Die With THE ABCs OF DEATH

This (so-called) horror anthology film sees 26 different directors assigned a letter of the alphabet and then told to make a movie about death around that letter. It’s an intriguing concept, but it’s a mixed bag, with some films being [...]

July 14, 2013

Blu-ray Review: Death Takes A Holiday In SIGHTSEERS

Sightseers is a pitch black comedy which pokes subtle fun at the blandness of middle-England. Director Ben Wheatley’s film highlights the potential evil lurking under every anorak and behind the wheel of every over-sized caravan. Sightseers stars [...]

March 28, 2013