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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

The Great Don Johnson

The great Don Johnson was born on December 15, 1949. He worked in television and film throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, but Johnson hit the jackpot in 1984 when he was cast in the role of Sonny Crockett in in the era defining cop show, Miami [...]

December 15, 2021

The Mighty Don Johnson

The mighty Don Johnson needs no introduction to readers of Movies In Focus. The Miami Vice/Nash Bridges legend delivers each time he’s on screen and in recent years he has done sterling work in Brawl In Cell Block 99, Vengeance, Dragged Across [...]

June 7, 2020

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

Get Your Vince Vaughn And Don Johnson Fix In The Trailer For BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99

I’ve been looking forward to S. Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cell Block 99 since it was first announced – but I’ve known very little about the film. However, I’ve seen this first trailer for the film – and I still [...]

August 29, 2017

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