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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

Wes Anderson’s ISLE OF DOGS Isn’t Just For Kids

The general gist is that Movies In Focus are rarely does animation – but Wes Anderson‘s 2018 film Isle of Dogs is a mini-masterpiece Anderson’s stop-motion feature is a gem of a movie. It might be animated, but this exceptionally put [...]

July 7, 2020

Tore Down A La TRUMBO

A little late to the party, but Movies In Focus finally caught up with Jay Roach’s 2015 release Trumbo. It’s a great character study of the blacklisted screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo and it really delivers in setting out the details of a [...]

June 11, 2020

Blu-ray & DVD Review Round-Up: READY PLAYER ONE, ISLE OF DOGS, JOURNEYMAN, A QUIET PLACE & More

This time around: Steven Spielberg goes inside the Oasis in Ready Player One, Wes Anderson takes us to the Isle of Dogs, Paddy Considine is a Journeyman, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski go to A Quiet Place, Dwayne Johnson goes on a Rampage and Paul [...]

August 19, 2018

Wes Anderson Is A Genius – But I Won’t Be Watching ISLE OF DOGS

Wes Anderson has been a consistently great filmmaker for the last 20 years or so, but I’m not interested in his latest film, Isle of Dogs. I have no interest in animation, stop motion or otherwise. I still haven’t seen Anderson’s [...]

December 19, 2017

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: FRIGHT NIGHT, JULIETA, DEEPWATER HORIZON, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS & More

A selection of new blu-ray and DVD releases. This time around: Rediscover Tom Holland’s ’80s horror Fright Night, see Pedro Almodovar turn life into a Hitchcockian thriller in Julieta, get rigged with Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell in [...]

January 25, 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

Oscars 2016: Full Winners List; Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Wins Best Actor

The awards season reached its climax with the 88th Academy Awards – and it was a night that saw the gold shared amongst a variety of films. The Revenant, Spotlight, The Big Short, The Danish Girl, Bridge of Spies and Room won the top nods, [...]

February 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

Full Nomination List For The 2016 EE BAFTA Awards

It’s that time of year again when the film industry celebrates its achievements over the last 12 months. The EE BAFTA nominations have been announced and there’s a wide variety of movies up for nods this year. There’s a lot talk [...]

January 10, 2016

New Trailer For TRUMBO Starring Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren And John Goodman

Trumbo gets its UK premiere at the London Film Festival. Here’s the new trailer for the 1950s set Hollywood drama. Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louie CK, Elle Fanning and John Goodman opens in the UK on February [...]

October 7, 2015

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

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: Ryan Gosling In Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive is a stripped down action-thriller for the art-house crowd, the perfect antidote to Hollywood’s overly glossy car movies like The Fast and the Furious franchise or Gone in Sixty Seconds. Based on James Sallis’ [...]

March 3, 2012