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The COVID-19 Release Date Shuffle Continues: BILL & TED, UNHINGED & MULAN Follow TENET To New Dates

Hot on the heels of Tenet‘s new 12 August release date comes word that another three films have shifted around the calendar. Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged has now taken the Christopher Nolan pic’s previous date and moved to 31 July [...]

June 28, 2020

Whatever Happened To Bobby Driscoll? Whatever Happened To PETER PAN?

Bobby Driscoll was Walt Disney’s first child star. Born in 1937, the actor had lead roles in the controversial Song of the South (1946) and Treasure Island (1950). He was the animation model and the voice for Disney’s 1953 [...]

April 10, 2020

Trailer: Dwayne Johnson And Emily Blunt Rock The Boat In JUNGLE CRUISE

How much money does Dwayne Johnson need? How many soulless blockbusters must he make before he’s happy? The man has charisma, but he just makes movies based on potential box office. All of Johnson’s movies look the same. Here’s [...]

March 10, 2020

Steven Spielberg Won’t Direct INDIANA JONES 5; James Mangold In Negotiations To Replace Him

It’s pretty surprising to hear that Steven Spielberg has stepped aside as the director of Indiana Jones 5. After all, Indy was crafted for the screen after Cubby Broccoli refused Spielberg’s offer to direct a James Bond movie in the late [...]

February 27, 2020

Dead By Disney: 20th Century Fox Is No More

20th Century Fox is dead. Long live 20th Century Studios. We knew that there would be big changes ahead when Disney closed the deal to purchase 20th Century Fox from News Corporation in 2019. Now it has been announced that the Mouse House will [...]

January 18, 2020

George Lucas Clearly Has No Time For Baby Yoda – Movies In Focus Understands How He Feels

The whole Baby Yoda thing really annoys Movies In Focus. The people loving the character and making it a popular meme are likely the same people who say the Ewoks in The Return Of The Jedi were too cute and designed only to sell toys. That’s [...]

January 18, 2020

Warren Beatty And Madonna On The Set Of DICK TRACY

Dick Tracy is one of those 1990s curiosities which seems to have been forgotten in the mists of time. If you’re young, you might not even know it exists. However, in the summer of 1990 Warren Beatty‘s movie was everywhere. Based on the [...]

January 11, 2020

STAR WARS: GALAXY’S EDGE Looks Like The Coolest Thing Ever

Movies In Focus can be something of a cinematic curmudgeon. I know it – and hey, sometimes I revel in it. When you hit a certain age it’s easy to lose a certain amount of youthful vibrance and you forget what it was like to have been a [...]

May 30, 2019

Death Of Cinema Update: Here’s The Trailer For Guy Ritchie’s ALADDIN

Boy, oh boy, oh boy. Soulless CGI-fuelled slam-bam. That’s the only thing that I can say about this new trailer for Guy Ritchie’s live-action version of Disney’s 1992 animation Aladdin. Painful looking visuals and atrocious acting, [...]

March 12, 2019

Trailer: No Love For THE LION KING Here

Never seen Disney’s 1994 animated version of The Lion King and I won’t be seeing the 2019 live-action version which isn’t really live action. Jon Favreau seems like a nice guy and he’s a talented filmmaker – why is he [...]

November 24, 2018

Against All Good Sense…The DUMBO Trailer

I know Dumbo isn’t for me – but against all odds, I know I’ll see this Disney remake. Tim Burton reuniting with Michael Keaton after 27 years. Colin Farrell. Danny Elfman. This shouldn’t be for me, but… Dumbo opens in [...]

November 15, 2018

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: We All Stand Together

The cast of Guardians Of The Galaxy have rallied behind writer-director James Gunn following his firing from the franchise by Disney. The cast (including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker and Karen [...]

July 31, 2018

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