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Amazon Set To Buy MGM For $8.45 Billion

It’s been speculated for quite some time, but now it’s official – Amazon is set to buy the famed film studio, Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) for $8.45 Billion. MGM is a big purchase by Amazon, and it will give the company a major [...]

May 26, 2021

It’s Creed Versus Drago In The New Trailer For CREED II

The new trailer for Steven Caple Jr’s Creed II packs a punch. It’s Creed Vs Drago 2.0 and Balboa Vs Drago 1.2. You’ll get bang for you buck in and out of the ring once this hits on 30 November. I’m loving how Sylvester [...]

September 26, 2018

A Quiet Place: Silent Characters On Screen

From Baby Driver to A Quiet Place, films including characters with hearing impairments are slowly becoming more represented in mainstream cinema, with the films encompassing a field of diverse and inclusive ways to represent their characters. The [...]

August 9, 2018

Trailer: Michael B. Jordan Is Back In The Ring For CREED II

Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed has loyalty inside his DNA, apparently. That’s the reason why he’s going to face Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu) in the ring in Creed II. Drago senior (Dolph Lundgren) was the man who killed [...]

June 20, 2018

Flying High: CREED II Poster Drops

Ryan Coogler’s Creed bagged great reviews and scored $109 million at the US box office – making it the fourth most successful film in the seven-part Rocky franchise (unadjusted). Coogler isn’t returning for the sequel (he was a [...]

June 19, 2018

Sylvester Stallone Gears Up For THE EXPENDABLES 4 & RAMBO 5

Long-time readers of Movies In Focus will know that I have a lot of love for old-school action flicks (hey, I grew-up in the ’80s and ’90s). I’ve been particularly taken by The Expendables movies – and I’m thrilled that [...]

May 22, 2018

Big Bad Don: Sylvester Stallone Heads To TV With Mario Puzo’s OMERTA

Hollywood has shifted in such a way that moving to TV is no longer seen as the end of your career, in fact it’s now seen as a way to improve your career. The latest big screen star to hit the box is Sylvester Stallone. The Italian Stallion is [...]

April 30, 2016

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

OSCARS 2016: A Full List Of Nominations; THE REVENANT Leads The Pack

The nominations for the Academy Awards (AKA the Oscars) have dropped. We expected many of these (The Revenant, The Big Short and Spotlight) but who would have guessed that Mad Max: Fury Road would be nominated for Best Picture and Best Director? I [...]

January 14, 2016

Will The CREED Trailer Help With Good Rocky’s Revival?

I think we can all say that Creed isn’t going to be Rocky. If Stallone’s magnum opus with a ‘70s singer-songwriter then Ryan Coogler’s film is some heavy RnB. This is a movie for its time. Michael B. Jordan seems committed to the role, but [...]

July 2, 2015

DVD Review: Michael B. Jordan In Ryan Coogler’s FRUITVALE STATION

Ryan Coogler makes a powerful film debut with Fruitvale Station, the true-life story of Oscar Grant, the 22 year old who was shot by the police at the eponymous station on New Year’s Day in 2009. At the centre of the film is Michael B. Jordan, who [...]

October 9, 2014