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BAFTA: The Winners At The 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards

Hosted by Rebel Wilson, the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards took place on Sunday 13 March 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall. It was something of a disappointing show – Wilson failed to connect as a host and quite a few of the winners failed [...]

March 14, 2022

Bring Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST Home This April

A huge hit with critics and audiences alike, Kenneth Branagh‘s Belfast is a semi-autobiographical tale about growing up in the city as the violence of ‘the troubles’ spread across Northern Ireland in the late 1960s. Written and [...]

March 7, 2022

Irish Academy Awards: The 2022 IFTA Nominations

Belfast and An Cailín Ciúin lead the nominations for the 2022 Irish Academy Awards. Both films have scored 10 nods each, while Who We Love, Swan Song and You Are Not My Mother have 6 nominations. Break-out hit, Deadly Cuts was next having [...]

February 22, 2022

Watch The First 6 Minutes Of Kenneth Branagh’s Brilliant BELFAST

Opening with a sumptuous montage of modern day Belfast, set to the strains of Van Morrison’s song Down To Joy, Kenneth Branagh’s regular cinematographer, Haris Zambarloukos, switches to luscious monochrome as we fall back into the [...]

February 10, 2022

Academy Awards 2022: A Full List Of Oscar Nominations

Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leads the charge at this year’s Academy Awards. The Netflix western scored 12 nominations including Best Director for Campion. Campion is now the first woman to have been nominated for best director [...]

February 10, 2022

BAFTA 2022: Nominations For The EE British Academy Film Awards

Dune is leading an incredibly diverse set of nominations at the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards. The Power of the Dog managed seven nominations, while Belfast scored six nominations. Movies In Focus is thrilled that Kenneth Branagh’s [...]

February 3, 2022

Review: Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST Is Heartfelt And Emotionally Powerful

A wondrously nostalgic look at his childhood, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is a heartfelt and emotionally powerful piece of cinema. Branagh has crafted a film where whimsy and realism sit side-by-side so the viewer can visit a Belfast which is as [...]

January 24, 2022

Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST

Movies In Focus lived in Belfast for six years before moving to England. I’ve recently moved back near the city – and it’s a place which I have a strong emotional attachment to. It’s a wonderful city, a vibrant city and a [...]

September 3, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Damien Chazelle, Ryan Gosling & Claire Foy On The Set Of FIRST MAN

Damien Chazelle’s 2018 film, First Man charts Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) in the years leading-up to his historical walk on the moon. The film shows the dangers of stepping out into the unknown and the toll that it took on his wife (Claire Foy) and [...]

August 28, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Zack Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE Is Epic In Scope

Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a film which shouldn’t exist – but here it is. For years it was a cinematic myth, an unfinished film that would never see the light of day and nothing but a future trivia quiz question for comics [...]

May 26, 2021

Review: Zack Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE Is The Film We Should Have Had Years Ago!

March 15, 2021

Henry Cavill’s Superman & Ezra Miller’s The Flash Race In This Behind The Scenes Image From JUSTICE LEAGUE

Justice League is fun in a comic book way, but it’s also an incredibly frustrating, disjointed movie. People constantly talk about ‘filmmaking by committee’, but Justice League is a movie that is so guilty of that charge that it [...]

August 27, 2020

Get Your Motor Runnin’: Zack Snyder Offers A Glimpse At His New Look Steppenwolf

Justice League’s main lump of Kryptonite is Ciarán Hinds’ Steppenwolf, a CGI constructed baddie who looks and acts like something out of a second rate fantasy video game. The character just doesn’t work and anytime he was onscreen in the 2017 [...]

August 10, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Damien Chazelle’s FIRST MAN Is A Cool Technical Marvel

Damien Chazelle’s First Man is an exceptionally well crafted bit of cinema. The Whiplash and La La Land director has delivered a rich and textured Neil Armstrong film, which looks and feels like it was ripped out the the 1960s. First Man [...]

February 21, 2019

Blu-ray Review: JUSTICE LEAGUE – Not As Bad As You Think But Not As Great As You Hope

Justice League hit the big screen with quite a muted response, which was a severe kick in the teeth for a film which was supposed to be the DC Comics Extended Universe answer to The Avengers. The $250 million+ budgeted film opened to a [...]

March 25, 2018

Teaser Trailer For Ridley Scott’s TV Tale THE TERROR

Okay, so The Terror is directed by Edward Berger but it’s produced by the ever-busy Ridley Scott and his name is the big selling point here. This ten-part TV series will kick-off with a 2 hour premiere on AMC and it should keep audiences on [...]

December 10, 2017

Review: JUSTICE LEAGUE Is A Flawed But Entertaining Superhero Adventure

It’s fair to say that the DC Comics Extended Universe has had a rocky road on its way to the big screen. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Suicide Squad were both given a rough ride by critics, despite scoring solid box office numbers, while [...]

November 19, 2017

Blu-ray Review: Miles Teller Has The Eye Of The Tiger In BLEED FOR THIS

If you’re making a boxing movie then you’re always going up against classic heavy-hitters like Rocky and Raging Bull but Ben Younger’s Bleed For This certainly has the ‘eye of the tiger’. It punches above its weight and while it might not [...]

March 30, 2017

GAME OF THRONES Season 5 Clips: Jon Snow Vs Mance Rayder And Tyrion Lannister Opposite Lord Varys

Winter might be coming and so is Game Of Thrones Season Five. These new clips show Kit Harington’s Jon Snow face-off against Ciaran Hinds’ Mance Rayder and Peter Dinklage‘s Tyrion Lannister opposite Conleth Hill’s Lord Varys. [...]

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