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Oscars 2022: The Full Academy Awards Winners List

The 94th Academy Awards took place on Sunday 27th March 2022. The event was pretty much over shadowed by Best Actor winner Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. If the night [...]

March 28, 2022

BAFTA: The Winners At The 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards

Hosted by Rebel Wilson, the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards took place on Sunday 13 March 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall. It was something of a disappointing show – Wilson failed to connect as a host and quite a few of the winners failed [...]

March 14, 2022

Academy Awards 2022: A Full List Of Oscar Nominations

Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leads the charge at this year’s Academy Awards. The Netflix western scored 12 nominations including Best Director for Campion. Campion is now the first woman to have been nominated for best director [...]

February 10, 2022

BAFTA 2022: Nominations For The EE British Academy Film Awards

Dune is leading an incredibly diverse set of nominations at the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards. The Power of the Dog managed seven nominations, while Belfast scored six nominations. Movies In Focus is thrilled that Kenneth Branagh’s [...]

February 3, 2022

Monster Opening For SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Breaks Box Office Records

It’s been a while since Movies In Focus did any sort of deep-dive into box office analysis. That stuff doesn’t interest me like it used to, mainly because I no longer have a dog in the fight. In the good old days, you could follow actors [...]

December 20, 2021

Still No Maguire & Garfield In The Latest SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Trailer

This latest trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home gives us much more of Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus and it also shows-off a lot more action (read: usual Marvel movie destruction). However, like with the previous trailer that was released in [...]

November 18, 2021

Teaser Trailer: Jane Campion’s THE POWER OF THE DOG Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons & Kodi Smit-McPhee

This teaser trailer for Jane Campion‘s The Power Of The Dog is a well cut mood piece (shame about the film’s terrible title). It doesn’t give much of the plot away, but it does pull you in with intrigue – which is what a [...]

August 26, 2021

The Long-Awaited Trailer For SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Is Here

Those looking to catch a glimpse of Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield in the long-awaited first trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home are going to be very disappointed. You do get to see Alfred Molina‘s Doctor Octopus though – which ties [...]

August 24, 2021

Mo Money, Mo-Cap And Mo MOWGLI

You won’t be getting ‘The Bare Necessities’ with Andy Serki’s new telling of The Jungle Book, Mowgli. Will this score at the box office, or will audiences stay away in droves after shelling out $966 million globally to watch [...]

May 22, 2018

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Breaks All Sorts Of Box Office Records

What superhero movie fatigue? Avengers: Infinity War is on track to score $247.1 million at the US box office over its first weekend – the second best opening of all time behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ $247.96 million – [...]

April 29, 2018

Benedict Cumberbatch Is A ROGUE MALE

Movies In Focus first read Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male a couple of years ago after receiving it as a gift from a well read friend. The 1939 novel is a tight and taught tale about an English gent proving that he can assassinate a European [...]

August 3, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Ian Richardson In THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES & THE SIGN OF FOUR

The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of Four are two of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most well known Sherlock Holmes stories. They’ve been adapted for the screen numerous times, and these 1983 television films star Ian Richardson as the great [...]

June 4, 2016

DOCTOR STRANGE Poster: All The Usual Words Apply

Doctor Strange. Benedict Cumberbatch. Sherlock. Marvel Universe. Disney. The Avengers. Box office. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Comic book movies. Throw the words into any sentence you want and everyone will be happy. [...]

April 12, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Johnny Depp Is The Best Thing About Generic Gangster Drama BLACK MASS

Scott Cooper’s Black Mass is a well made film that trots out all the traditional gangster tropes. There’s little new on display here and if you’ve seen any Martin Scorsese gangster film then you won’t be surprised how things go down. The [...]

March 27, 2016

New Images Introduce Benedict Cumberbatch As DOCTOR STRANGE

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is Doctor Strange, the latest character in Marvel’s cinematic superhero onslaught. Cumberbatch has his hardcore fans and the Marvel lovers are fervent in their dedication to the movies. Will this be the movie [...]

December 30, 2015

Simon Pegg: A Film Career Overview

UK born legend Simon Pegg is known not only as an actor but a comedian, screenwriter, producer, singer and director. He has worked extensively in both TV and film and has starred alongside some of Hollywood’s biggest names such as Tom Cruise, [...]

December 7, 2015

Trailer: ZOOLANDER NO. 2 Is Cut From The Same Cloth As The 2001 Original

It boggles the mind to think that Zoolander was released in 2001. Time waits for no man and it sure doesn’t wait for male models. This belated sequel is designed to give fans of the first movie another dose of everything they loved about the [...]

November 19, 2015

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

Benicio Del Toro Offered The Villain Role In STAR WARS EPISODE VIII – But He Is Not A Jedi Yet!

The Force is strong with Benicio De Toro – well it might be, if he wants it. The Oscar-winning actor has been offered the villain role in Star Wars Episode VIII. Rian Johnson is set to helm the next instalment of the Star Wars saga, which is [...]

July 21, 2015

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