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The End Is Nigh: First Images From Kevin Spacey Free HOUSE OF CARDS Season 6

House Of Cards was well on the decline before Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct in 2017. Despite its downward spiral, once Spacey’s dark side was in the open it looked like the show might never get a proper finish (production was [...]

June 11, 2018

Not For Me: THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB Trailer

Ditching the classy, well-paced storytelling of David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, this trailer for The Girl In The Spider’s Web looks like some sort of random superhero/Underworld mash-up. This time around Fede Alvarez [...]

June 7, 2018

MINDHUNTER Trailer: David Fincher Does Serial Killers For Netflix

Mindhunter sees David Fincher once again tackle serial killers on screen. If the thought of the man who brought you Se7en, Zodiac and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo doing a Netflix show on that subject matter doesn’t float yer boat, then go [...]

August 1, 2017

THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB: No Fincher, No Mara, No Craig Means No Interest

Movies In Focus officially has no interest in The Girl In The Spider’s Web. The film is the follow-up to David Fincher’s classy 2011 thriller, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which starred Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig. It’s obvious [...]

March 13, 2017

Trailer For David Fincher’s New Netflix Show MINDHUNTER

This trailer for the David Fincher produced/directed Mindhunter doesn’t give away much. You know this Netflix be well composed and thoughtful – but that’s what you expect from a Fincher project. Mindunter hits Netflix in [...]

March 2, 2017

Andrew Garfield: TV and Film Career

LA born and Surrey raised, Andrew Garfield began his acting career in British television and theatre. His first role in a feature length film was in Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs. This was followed by a mix of low budget, independent shorts and [...]

January 26, 2016

Blu-ray Review: 1976’s THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN Came Before Most Other Slasher Movies

The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 1976 horror set in the Texas town of Texarkana. The film is based in a loose fashion on the Phantom Killer who haunted Texarkana in 1946. Charles B. Pierce’s thriller is one of the first in the wave of 1970s [...]

August 4, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Rosamund Pike Thriller RETURN TO SENDER Fails to Deliver

Return To Sender is a thriller that fails to deliver (yeah, that pun was way too easy). Faoud Mikati’s film has some genuinely well developed tension but it’s ultimately all build-up, with very little pay-off. I’m not sure how much of [...]

July 14, 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

From Bond Girl To Gone Girl: Rosamund Pike Says RETURN TO SENDER

Former Bond Girl Rosamund Pike got a major career boost from the thriller Gone Girl. She seems to be keeping things in a similar vein with Return To Sender. Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) stars as a small town nurse who gets brutally attacked and raped [...]

May 13, 2015

Poster For HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT – Hollywood Style Meets The French New Wave

Alfred Hitchcock and Françoise Truffaut helped shape the language of cinema as we know it today (all the good aspects anyway). Therefore true cineastes should be thrilled at the prospect of delving deep into Kent Jones’ documentary [...]

May 12, 2015

Netflix Renews HOUSE OF CARDS For Fourth Season; Hope For An Upswing In Quality

The first season of House Of Cards was stunning. The second was excellent but the third was very disappointing. I’m hoping for some major course-correction in the just announced season four. I enjoy watching Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood (you [...]

April 3, 2015

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