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Blu-ray Review: FLIGHT IF THE NAVIGATOR Takes Off

Flight Of The Navigator is a Spielbergian 1980s science fiction movie, which offers-up enough original ideas (and special effects) to make it worth seeking out. Grease director Randal Kleiser’s 1986 film follows the family movie template to [...]

September 2, 2019

Blu-ray Review: ONE DEADLY SUMMER Is A Noir-ish Tale Of Death And Desire

A slow-burning dramatic thriller, One Deadly Summer (L’Été meurtrier) is a noir-ish tale of death and desire. The story in Jean Becker’s 1983 adaption of Sébastien Japrisot’s novel is strong, but the film really works because of the [...]

August 3, 2019

Competition: Win Ralph Fiennes’ THE WHITE CROW On Blu-ray

Academy Award-nominee Ralph Fiennes and BAFTA-winning screenwriter David Hare bring the incredible true story of the legendary Rudolf Nureyev, one of the greatest and most famous ballet dancers of the 20th century, vividly to life in The White Crow [...]

August 1, 2019

Review: Nicolas Roeg’s Timeless Classic DON’T LOOK NOW

Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now is a stunningly crafted horror/thriller from 1973. It’s a classic, a wonderfully realised piece of cinema which delivers on a dramatic and an emotional level. This is how you make a horror movie. Based [...]

July 20, 2019

Review: The Powerful CHERNOBYL Embraces Subtlety Over Spectacle

Writer Craig Mazin’s Chernobyl is something of a subtle masterpiece. This five-part series about one of mankind’s greatest disasters could have gone down the tried and tested disaster movie road, throwing well worn tropes at viewers as a way of [...]

July 6, 2019

Movie Review Cover Quotes Never Get Old

Movies In Focus been doing the whole movie review thing for well over a decade now and I’m always excited when I score a poster/DVD/blu-ray cover quote. It’s a validation of sorts and at the very least it shows that someone, somewhere [...]

June 29, 2019

Do Look Now: Remastered DON’T LOOK NOW Returns To The Big Screen Before Hitting DVD & Blu-ray

Don’t Look Now, based on Daphne du Maurier’s short story is a stunningly shot horror/thriller from 1973. The film follows a couple, John and Laura Baxter (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) as they try to rebuild their lives following the [...]

June 10, 2019

Blu-ray Review: M.Night Shyamalan Concludes The Eastrail 177 Trilogy With GLASS

Concluding the trilogy he started back in 2000 with Unbreakable, M.Night Shyamalan’s Glass was a success at the box office, banking $111 million at the US and $247 million globally – a good number considering the film’s modest $20 [...]

May 19, 2019

Blu-ray Review: NOVEMBER Is A Weird & Wonderful Estonian Fairy Tale

Rainer Sarnet’s November, is a film which feels as if it purposely goes out of its way to defy categorisation. The black and white film is a dark comedy, a fairy tale fantasy, a twisted family drama and a doomed romance about star-crossed [...]

May 7, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Is The George Lucas Produced HOWARD THE DUCK Really A Turkey?

Howard the Duck is an iconic film. The problem being that it is an iconic film for all the wrong reasons. Released in 1986, Howard (which is based on a 1970s Marvel Comic) had a huge budget, it was produced by Star Wars mastermind George Lucas and [...]

April 26, 2019

Blu-ray Review: GREEN INFERNO AKA CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST II Goes Against Nature

Known by a variety of different names, Antonio Climati’s Green Inferno (aka Natura Contro/Against Nature/Cannibal Holocaust II) is an energetic cannibal adventure film from 1988. While it bears zero relation to the notorious 1980 video nasty [...]

March 30, 2019

Blu-ray & DVD Review Round-Up: FANTASTIC BEASTS, BABYLON BERLIN, SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ & More

This time around: Wands at the ready in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald; it’s party time in Babylon Berlin, The Girl In The Spider’s Web gets tangled-up, if anyone can then the Candyman can in Candyman: Farewell To The Flesh, [...]

March 24, 2019

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