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How Ridley Scott Got It Wrong With PROMETHEUS

Ridley Scott’s Prometheus begins with the birth of mankind, in an over-blown prologue which sets the tone for things to come. We then cut to Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway (Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green) who discover a map left [...]

June 18, 2020

Roger Donaldson Interview Part Two: The Bounty, Conan, Bond, Cocktail & Working With Movie Stars

This second part of Movies In Focus‘ interview with director Roger Donaldson to talk about his documentary McLaren, looks at his impressive career behind the camera (read part one). We discuss such diverse films as The Bounty, No Way Out, [...]

May 31, 2017

Blu-ray Review: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY – Kinky Twilight Fan-Fiction For Middle-Aged Women

E.L. James was a middle-aged woman who was a huge fan of the the Stephanie Meyer’s young-adult Twilight novels. She did what any self respecting middle-aged woman would do … and cranked out some online fan fiction, upping the sex quota and [...]

June 21, 2015

Review: Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS Is A Huge Disappointment

Oh Prometheus. How you have teased us. You’ve kept us guessing regarding your connection to Alien. You’ve tantalised us with your impressive visuals. Oh, how you have disappointed us. Ridley Scott’s first science fiction film in thirty years [...]

June 8, 2012

Blu-ray Review: David Lean’s THIS HAPPY BREED

David Lean’s This Happy Breed comes to Blu-ray in outstanding fashion with a newly remastered print that shows the film in all of its Technicolor glory. It follows the Gibbons family from 1919 to 1939, charting the years between both world wars. [...]

June 1, 2012

Interview: JAMES BOND And INDIANA JONES Stuntman Vic Armstrong

Vic Armstrong is something of a movie legend. You may not know the name, but you’ve undoubtedly seen his work. Armstrong started out as a movie stuntman, working on the Gregory Peck film Arabesqe, before he began his longstanding association with [...]

March 25, 2012