dunkirk

A Fair Price To Pay: Christopher Nolan’s Universal Deal

We now know that Christopher Nolan will be making his new movie with Universal Pictures – his first away from Warner Bros. in almost 20 years. Written by Nolan, the film will focus on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who played a major [...]

September 16, 2021

Christopher Nolan’s Swiss Watch

As a director, Christopher Nolan has had a pretty impressive cinematic run: Following (1998) Memento (2000) Insomnia (2002) Batman Begins (2005) The Prestige (2006) The Dark Knight (2008) Inception (2010) The Dark Knight Rises (2012), [...]

September 6, 2020

Empire Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movies Of The Century Features A Lot Of Serious Duds

Taste is an interesting thing. Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but some people simply don’t have good taste. They’d rather eat at McDonalds than a good restaurant. This list of Empire Magazine’s 100 films of the [...]

January 18, 2020

Academy Awards: 2018 Oscars Winners And Nominees

The 2018 Oscars offered no surprises. Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney all won. Roger Deakins finally scored a little bald man and Guillermo De Toro bagged Best Director. Get Out brought home the Best Screenplay for [...]

March 5, 2018

Movies In Focus At The 2018 BAFTA Film Awards And The Full Winners List

On 18 February 2018, the cream of the film industry once again descended on the Royal Albert Hall for the 2018 EE British Academy Film Awards (that’s the Baftas to you and me). Movies In Focus was on the red carpet to cover the event – [...]

February 19, 2018

OSCARS 2018: A Full List Of Nominations – A Year Of Surprises

The Shape of Water leads the pack at the 90th Academy Awards, with a total 13 nominations. Dunkirk managed eight nods, while Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri trailed the Christopher Nolan pic with seven. It’s [...]

January 23, 2018

BAFTA 2018: Nominations For The EE British Academy Film Awards

Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of Water is the big nominee for the 2018 EE BAFTAs. Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is also high up on the list. There’s a strong nod towards homegrown (and Irish) talent [...]

January 9, 2018

Watch Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK As A Short, Silent Movie

Digital filmmaking, the internet and all the tools around them has led to millions of fan edits of all sorts of movies. Some of these have been great, while others have been pretty terrible. This 8-minute film takes Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk [...]

January 1, 2018

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: DUNKIRK, AMERICAN MADE, PULP, THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM & More

This time around: Christopher Nolan goes to war in Dunkirk; Tom Cruise is American Made, Michael Caine is involved in Pulp; Bill Nighy investigates The Limehouse Golem; Dustin Hoffman and Richard Madden are The Masters Of Florence and Rooney Mara is [...]

December 20, 2017

Take Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK Home This Christmas

Christopher Nolan’s cinematic masterwork, Dunkirk hits home video platforms on 18 December, 2017. The film managed to be weighty, heartfelt and uncompromising – pretty amazing considering the film’s tight 106 minute running [...]

October 31, 2017

Big Head With Writing: Final Poster For Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK

This is an underwhelming final poster for Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic Dunkirk (see it below). Sure, he’s letting the star of the movie be the movie, but I want something a bit better than a big head and a title. At least it features [...]

June 7, 2017

DUNKIRK Trailer: It Looks Like Christopher Nolan’s Pearl Harbor

I actually really like 2001’s Pearl Harbor. It’s a luscious Jerry Bruckheimer-Michael Bay extravaganza that I can really get behind (despite its flaws) – and I get the same sense of scope from this new trailer for Christopher [...]

May 7, 2017

Trailer For Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK Has That Old Fashioned Epic War Movie Look

A Bridge Too Far, The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan – these are iconic and stirring war movies with an epic feel. I get the feeling that we’ll be adding Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk to this list in the future. This teaser [...]

December 14, 2016

The Teaser Poster For DUNKIRK Tells You It’s A Christopher Nolan Movie

Blue hues, a silhouette and a lot of atmosphere – yep, it’s gotta be a Christopher Nolan movie. This poster for Dunkirk lets you know that this will be epic. Just look at what lies beyond. I’ll admit that we’ve seen this [...]

December 13, 2016

Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK Tease

This is short and sweet but we can already tell that Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is going to be epic. Like all of Nolan’s films Dunkirk is going to straddle the fine-line between audience pleasing blockbuster and critical acclaim. Few people out [...]

August 6, 2016