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Review: Brian De Palma’s DOMINO Is A Disappointing Dud

Any Brian De Palma is better than no Brian De Palma. That’s the way to look at any film from one of cinema’s greatest thriller directors. However, it’s a serious shame that Domino feels like the master has had his edges shaved, leaving [...]

July 30, 2019

Blu-ray Review: THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 Is A Belated 1990s Sequel To Brian De Palma’s Classic

Released during the post-Scream horror boom of the late 1990s, The Rage: Carrie 2 is a belated follow-up to Brian De Palma’s well regarded 1976 Stephen King adaptation. Katt Shea’s film lacks the freshness of De Palma’s Carrie but now 20 [...]

March 30, 2019

Behind The Scenes: THE UNTOUCHABLES Takes On The Odessa Steps

Brian DePalma’s riff in The Untouchables on the Odessa Steps sequence from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film The Battleship Potemkin is the highlight in a movie filled with many great moments. Here’s a behind-the-scenes image from [...]

January 29, 2019

15 Things You Need To Know Before You See MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT

Mission: Impossible – Fallout hits cinema screens around the globe at end of July. The sixth instalment in the long-running spy franchise once again sees Tom Cruise conduct gravity defying stunts as intrepid IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Before you [...]

June 30, 2018

Review: Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT Is A Muscular Gangster Thriller

Tommy guns, bootleggers, fedoras and molls – Ben Affleck’s Live By Night has everything you would want from a 1930s gangster drama. This adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel is a love letter to Warner Bros’ golden age of gangster movies [...]

January 16, 2017

Tom Wolfe’s THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES Is Coming To Amazon Prime Video

Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities is an epic tome chronicling a diverse set of issues in 1980s New York. Sly, wry and filled with zing, Wolfe’s work is one of the great literary works of the 20th Century. The near 700 page novel (first [...]

October 15, 2016

DE PALMA Gets UK Distribution; Check Out The Poster And Trailer

Brian De Palma is an auteur, a man only interested in making ‘Brian De Palma movies’. Those movies may be filled with all sorts of excess and violence, but they’re unmistakably the work of one man’s singular vision. Movies In Focus’ [...]

May 11, 2016

A Touch Of Sadness Over MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 6

I’m a little sad that the Mission: Impossible franchise is going to end its 20 year streak of having each filmed directed by different director. Brian De Palma lit the blue touch paper back in 1996, John Woo continued the franchise, J.J Abrams [...]

December 1, 2015

Tom Cruise: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 6 Shoots Next Summer

It looks like Mission: Impossible 6 is a go. Tom Cruise has stated that he plans to return to the role of Ethan Hunt next year (‘We’re starting to work on it now. We’ll probably start shooting it next summer’). That would make the gap [...]

July 31, 2015

10 Things You Need To Know Before You See MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation hits cinema and IMAX screens at the end of July. The fifth instalment in the franchise once again sees Tom Cruise conduct some gravity defying scenes as intrepid IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Before you check out the [...]

June 28, 2015

New Trailer And Character Posters For MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Choose to accept these new marketing materials for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. This is how you advertise a summer blockbuster. Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt following the box office success of Ghost Protocol. It’s interesting to note [...]

June 4, 2015

DVD Review: Elijah Wood And John Cusack Hit The Right Notes In GRAND PIANO

Grand Piano plays like a homage to the work of Brian DePalma, the heir to Alfred Hitchcock’s edge of seat palm-sweaters. Eugenio Mira’s thriller sees pianist Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood) return to performing for the first time in five years [...]

October 11, 2014

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