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Blu-ray Review: Ryan Gosling Takes The Hot Seat In Second Sight Films’ Release Of Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE

Based on James Sallis’ novel of the same name, Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 thriller, Drive sees Ryan Gosling play a character only known as Driver, a stuntman by day and getaway driver at night, whose relationship with single parent Carey [...]

June 10, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Dito Montiel’s BOULEVARD

The late Robin Williams give his final screen performance in 2014’s Boulevard, a low key drama from director Dito Montiel. It’s a well meaning effort which sees Williams play Nolan Mack, a 60 year old closeted homosexual who is caught up [...]

March 10, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: W.D Richter’s THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8th DIMENSION

A movie that can’t be quantified, W.D Richter’s The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension is a cinematic fusion of a million ideas, synthesised into a film with an out of this world plot. To explain what goes in Earl Mac [...]

February 13, 2021

DVD Review: BLOOD PUNCH Is Hard To Define – But That Doesn’t Stop It Being Great

Sometimes little movies come along and knock your socks off. That happened to Movies In Focus with Blood Punch, an energetic little genre movie. Madellaine Paxson’s film almost defies classification, a sci-fi-comedy-horror-romance which feels as [...]

January 22, 2017

Los Pollos Hermanos: Finger Lickin’ Good Teaser For BETTER CALL SAUL Season 3

Better Call Saul is a much, much better show than Breaking Bad. There, I said it. Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill is just brilliant, a heartbreaking character who eventually becomes Breaking Bad‘s slubbish lawyer Saul Goodman. The slow [...]

January 11, 2017

DVD Review: Robin Williams Gives A Strong Final Performance In BOULEVARD

Robin Williams give his final screen performance in Boulevard, a low key drama from director Dito Montiel. It’s a well meaning effort which sees Williams play Nolan Mack, a 60 year old closeted homosexual who is caught up in a loving but tired [...]

June 29, 2016

Movies In Focus At The 2016 BAFTA Film Awards And The Full Winners List

An icy cold Valentine’s Day in London saw the 2016 Bafta Film Awards at the Royal Opera House. Movies In Focus once again braved the cold to cover the red carpet to see the stars arrive for this prestigious night in the awards season calendar. The [...]

February 15, 2016

Bryan Cranston’s Real Life Hollywood Tale TRUMBO Might Just Score Awards Gold

Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood. That means Trumbo shouldn’t be ruled out as major contender when the awards season rolls around. Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston plays Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter who penned the [...]

August 15, 2015

It’s All Good Man: New Images From BETTER CALL SAUL Season 2

Movies In Focus didn’t like Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman when he first appeared in Breaking Bad. However, the character grew on me and he soon became the best thing about the show. Like many I was excited and apprehensive about placing Goodman in [...]

August 1, 2015

Blu-ray Review: THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8th DIMENSION Is Crazy Cult Fun

A movie that can’t be quantified, W.D Richter’s The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is a cinematic fusion of a million ideas, synthesised into a film with an out of this world plot. To explain what goes in Earl Mac [...]

July 21, 2015

Book Review: TASCHEN’s FAVOURITE TV SHOWS – THE TOP SHOWS OF THE LAST 25 YEARS

Television has become as important as cinema. Long form storytelling is now a powerful way to tell sprawling narratives and recent times have seen a rise in high quality shows, many of which surpass the writing of what’s playing on the big [...]

July 12, 2015

DVD Review: Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul Is Miscast In RETRIBUTION

Aaron Paul’s latest foray into movie Retribution (also known as Hellion) is a huge disappointment. It’s not that the Breaking Bad star gives a bad performance; it’s just that the film and the material are below his talents. It doesn’t help [...]

January 12, 2015

The Rise Of Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul

Aaron Paul burst onto television screens in 2008 in the multi Golden Globe award winning series Breaking Bad. Along with Bryan Cranston’s chemistry-teacher-come-drug-lord ‘Heisenberg’, Paul’s drug dealer Jesse Pinkman is one half of the most [...]

January 12, 2015

Remember My Name With BREAKING BAD: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition DVD

Breaking Bad The Complete Series Collector’s Edition Tin has hit DVD and Blu-ray. Fans can score a personalised A2 poster featuring their name on the now iconic “Remember My Name” image (see below) if they make their purchase from My Play [...]

November 20, 2014

Blu-ray Review: GODZILLA Destroys Expectations And Delivers Great Entertainment

Forget Roland Emmerich’s 1998 version of Godzilla. Erase it from your memory. Gareth Edwards gives us the big budget version of the iconic Toho Studios monster that we always wanted. Setting-up the history of the nuclear age in the opening [...]

October 27, 2014

DVD Review: NEED FOR SPEED – The Best Jerry Bruckheimer Movie That He Never Made This Decade

Need For Speed is ridiculous, contrived, thinly plotted with poorly constructed characters. It’s a film based on a video game, with a title derived from a line of dialogue in a slick but soulless 1980s action film. It’s also a blast – [...]

July 5, 2014

STAR WARS VII Casting And Story News; Michael Fassbender To Star?

I’ve been keeping out of the Star Wars VII news rumour game recently because, well, there hasn’t really been any news. However, the latest scuttlebutt is almost too juicy to let go. We all know that J.J. Abrams ditched Michael Arndt’s script, [...]

January 12, 2014

New Pic As Filming Begins On Nick Hornby’s A LONG WAY DOWN

Filming has started on the big screen adaptation of Nick Hornby’s 2005 novel, A Long Way Down. The Pascal Chaumeil directed film has a stellar cast including former James Bond Pierce Brosnan, Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul, Sam Neill, Tony Collette, [...]

September 19, 2012