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Review: Thomas Jane & Armie Hammer Are Outlaws In Travis Mills’ Brutal Western FRONTIER CRUCIBLE

The western is the genre that anchors American cinema. Of course there have been are many genres, but the western managed to create a certain mythos. Good versus evil, black hats versus white hats, Cowboys and Indians – there was an apparent [...]

December 1, 2025

Rejoice! S. Craig Zahler Is Back & Set To Direct The Noir Thriller THE BIG STONE GRID

Regular readers will know that Movies In Focus regards S. Craig Zahler as one of the finest U.S. filmmakers to emerge in the last decade or so. Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Dragged Across Concrete – are all first-rate works from a [...]

April 7, 2024

Behind The Scenes: Don Jonson, S. Craig Zahler & Mel Gibson On The Set Of DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

Writer/director S. Craig Zahler‘s 2018 film, Dragged Across Concrete plays-out like a cinematic novel. It’s a film with little digressions which expand on supporting characters, unveiling who they are so that we get to know them and [...]

July 5, 2021

The Mighty Kurt Russell

The mighty Kurt Russell turned 70 years old on 17 March 2021. The iconic actor has had a long and varied career, starring in a variety of beloved cult classics and out-right global blockbusters. Russell brings a laid-back, blue-collar vibe to his [...]

March 17, 2021

Interview: Producer Dallas Sonnier Talks Pushing Boundaries & Making Great Movies Away From Hollywood

Dallas Sonnier is one of the bravest and most exciting film producers working today. Through his company Cinestate, Sonnier he has delivered a roster of punchy movies including the Kurt Russell western Bone Tomahawk, Vince Vaughn crime-thriler Brawl [...]

July 17, 2019

Interview: S. Craig Zahler Discusses DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

S. Craig Zahler is one of the most exciting writer-directors working today. His first two films, Bone Tomahawk and Brawl In Cell Block 99 were gutsy genre movies which also managed to deliver great emotion and detail amongst the action. Zahler is [...]

March 20, 2019

Review: Mel Gibson & Vince Vaughn Star In S. Craig Zahler’s Beautifully Bleak DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

S. Craig Zahler is a singular voice in cinema, one who is willing to take pulp concepts and craft them into unflinchingly violent features. Bone Tomahawk and Brawl In Cell Block 99 have shown him to be a writer-director who knows how to use genre [...]

October 21, 2018

Mel Gibson Career Update: DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE & DADDY’S HOME 2

The Mel Gibson comeback is now an official thing. Hacksaw Ridge has nabbed 6 Oscar nominations and Gibson recently signed with a new agency (CAA). He has also lined-up two new acting projects. Dragged Across Concrete will see Gibson share the screen [...]

February 4, 2017

The Mighty Don Johnson Takes Part In A BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99

The mighty Don Johnson will join Vince Vaughn in S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk)’s Brawl In Cell Block 99. ‘’In Brawl in Cell Block 99, Vaughn plays Bradley, a former boxer whose marriage is crumbling and who is about to lose his job as an [...]

August 3, 2016

Mel Gibson And Kurt Russell Team For Epic TV Series THE BARBARY COAST

This must be one of the most exciting stories that Movies In Focus has covered in the four years the site has been going. Mel Gibson will re-team with his Tequila Sunrise co-star Kurt Russell for The Barbary Coast, a new television series set during [...]

April 18, 2016

Death Waits For No Man In The Trailer For Kurt Russell Western BONE TOMAHAWK

Readers of Movies In Focus have been waiting on Bone Tomahawk since the film was first announced back in 2012. It’s finally about to hit screens in the US – and here’s the first official trailer for the Kurt Russell-led ‘oater’. [...]

October 4, 2015

Yeeha! New Poster For Kurt Russell’s BONE TOMAHAWK

The majority of people will be aware that Kurt Russell is starring in Quentin Tarantino’s western The Hateful Eight. However, serious Russell fans are more excited by the actor’s other western Bone Tomahawk. The film premieres soon at Fantastic [...]

September 9, 2015

Forget The Hateful Eight And Check Out The Poster For Kurt Russell’s BONE TOMAHAWK

The Hateful Eight isn’t the only western Kurt Russell has coming out in the next year or so. In fact any Russell fan worth their salt knows that Bone Tomahawk is the western to anticipate over the next 12 months. S. Craig Zahler’s horror-western [...]

May 8, 2015