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Trailer: Steven Soderbergh’s Tech Thriller KIMI Starring Zoë Kravitz

In 2021 Steven Soderbergh delivered the all-star crime thriller No Sudden Move and now for 2022, the director has yet another film on the way (does he ever stop working?). KIMI is a tech thriller written by screenwriter David Koepp. Zoë Kravitz [...]

January 14, 2022

Johnny Depp’s MORTDECAI Was Never Given A Chance

Johnny Depp’s performances have become synonymous with silly costumes and even sillier accents. Both of these affectations are present and correct in Mortdecai but they add to the 2015 film’s overall general over-the-top tone. David [...]

October 21, 2020

Steven Spielberg Hires An Old Friend To Write INDIANA JONES 5

Writer David Koepp has been hired to thrash-out the script for the recently announced Indiana Jones 5. Koepp is one of Steven Spielberg’s go-to guys when it comes to scripts, having penned the likes of Jurassic Park, The Lost World, War of the [...]

March 19, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Comedy Caper MORTDECAI With Johnny Depp And An All Star Cast Is Great Fun

In recent years Johnny Depp’s performances have become synonymous with silly costumes and even sillier accents. Both of these affectations are present and correct in Mortdecai but they add to the film’s overall general over-the-top tone. [...]

May 30, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Die Hard In A School With TOY SOLDIERS

The success of Die Hard led to a bevy of copycat movies which saw terrorists take over a location (a building, a boat, a train, a plane) only to be thwarted by an unlikely hero. 1991’s Toy Soldiers sees a group of Colombian terrorists take over a [...]

March 23, 2015

Quirky Johnny Depp Hijinks In The Stephen Fry Narrated Trailer For MORTDECAI

Maybe it’s because there’s been a Johnny Depp backlash, but there’s something intriguing about Mortdecai (Movies In Focus likes to root for the underdog). I’m not sure how successful this will be at the box office – but it looks like [...]

December 26, 2014