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Johnny Depp And Martin Landau On The Set Of ED WOOD…In Colour!

This photograph shows Johnny Depp and Martin Landau alongside make-up artist Ve Neill on the set of Tim Burton’s Ed Wood. It’s one of the few colour behind-the-scenes images from the 1994 film. Look at the detail in Landau’s [...]

May 3, 2022

Behind The Scenes: Bill Murray & Richard Donner On The Set Of SCROOGED

The late, great Richard Donner’s 1988 comedy, Scrooged is a flawless interpretation of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic, A Christmas Carol. The mighty Bill Murray has never been better as the self-obsessed and Christmas-hating TV executive, [...]

December 22, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Wes Anderson’s THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU

Wes Anderson’s brilliant 2004 film, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou is the writer-director’s forgotten masterpiece. It includes Anderson’s usual precise visual style and tropes about broken families and distant fathers, but this time [...]

December 17, 2021

Movies To Watch This Christmas

Christmastime is here again and Movies In Focus is presenting you with a list of Christmas movies to watch over the festive season. Some are naughty and some are nice, but they’re definitely an intriguing selection of movies to light-up your [...]

December 4, 2021

Harold Ramis’ MULTIPLICITY Starring Michael Keaton Is A Comedy Masterpiece

The late, great Harold Ramis’ 1996 film Multiplicity is one of the all-time great comedies. Michael Keaton is superb as Doug Kinney, the family man who is so busy in life that gets cloned three times in order to keep up with his demeaning [...]

November 21, 2021

Remembering The Great Harold Ramis

The great Harold Ramis would have been 77 years old on 21 November 2021. He passed away on the 24 February, 2014 at the age of 69 from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis. To many he will always be Egon Spengler in the Ghostbusters movies but to [...]

November 21, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Owen Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow & Wes Anderson On The Set Of THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

The success of 1998’s brilliant Rushmore meant that writer-director Wes Anderson was effectively given carte blanche for his follow-up film. What he delivered was 2001’s The Royal Tenenbaums, an expertly crafted off-beat family drama [...]

November 18, 2021

Stephen King, Jerry Bruckheimer, Bill Murray And Ethan Coen – A Day For Talent

Maybe it’s prophecy, or just coincidence – but Stephen King (74) Jerry Bruckheimer (78), Bill Murray (71) and Ethan Coen (64) were all born on the same date (21 September). That’s an impressive group of talent to share a birthday. These men [...]

September 21, 2021

Notebook Reviews: MAD DOG AND GLORY

John McNaughton – 1993. John McNaughton’s Mad Dog And Glory is an interesting comedy-drama starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, and Bill Murray. McNaughton’s film is so fascinating because of its casting – De Niro and Murray [...]

September 17, 2021

Notebook Reviews: GROUNDHOG DAY

Harold Ramis – 1993. Director Harold Ramis‘ Groundhog Day is a true comedy classic. The great Bill Murray is on peak form as the grouchy weatherman forced to relive the same day over and over. It might just be Murray’s most [...]

September 2, 2021

GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Trailer Has A Serious Stranger Things Vibe & It’ll Probably Anger Old White Guys

This second trailer for Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife is pretty good – but it’s not great. It’s lacking a stand-out moment – oomph! They really seem to be leaning heavily on the Stranger Things vibe here (the [...]

July 27, 2021

Notebook Reviews: THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

Wes Anderson – 2001 A perfect cast heads-up Wes Anderson‘s wonderful follow-up to Rushmore. Gene Hackman is excellent as always although Bill Murray is underused – but the rest of the cast more than make up for that. The soundtrack [...]

May 26, 2021

Stay-Puft! GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Introduces The Mini-Pufts

On of the iconic moments in Ivan Reitman’s 1984 blockbuster Ghostbusters is the arrival of the giant Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Well, it looks like Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife is also going to feature the marshmallow [...]

April 8, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Alan Alda’s SWEET LIBERTY

The great Alan Alda is a talented and interesting man. An actor, writer, director, comedian and novelist it would appear that there is nothing Alda can’t do. Alda has a slew of acting credits to his name, from Mash (the television show) to being a [...]

February 21, 2021