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Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER, PADDINGTON 2 & MORE

This time around: Love is in the air for Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name; Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar gets buttoned-up; Hugh Grant commits crimes against acting Paddington 2; Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman get [...]

March 4, 2018

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: BLADE RUNNER 2049, BRIMSTONE, FLATLINERS, JIGSAW & More

This time around: Blade Runner 2049 fails to replicate the replicant success of the original; Guy Pearce raises hell in gritty western Brimstone, Luke Goss knows it’s Your Move; Flatliners doesn’t have much of a heartbeat; there’s [...]

February 10, 2018

DVD Review: Sci-Fi Drama MARJORIE PRIME Is Powerful And Poignant

Marjorie Prime shows that science fiction films don’t need expensive special effects for exotic locations to make them interesting. Writer-director Michael Almereyda’s film (adapted from a play by Jordan Harrison) is an intimate character piece, [...]

January 27, 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

DVD Review: Delve Into The World of STRIKE With CUCKOO’S CALLING

Cuckoo’s Calling didn’t break any sales records when it was first published back in 2013. The book’s author Robert Galbraith scored some good reviews for his debut novel, but things went to a whole new level when it was revealed that Galbraith [...]

November 28, 2017

DVD Review: Celebrate 30 Years Of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Few mainstream Hollywood films have attained the cult status as Rob Reiner’s 1987 adaptation of of William Goldman’s 1973 novel, The Princess Bride. The post-modern fairy tale /romantic-comedy- adventure shouldn’t work, but it does, [...]

October 29, 2017

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: BABY DRIVER, CAGE DIVE, BELLE DU JOUR, CHANNEL ZERO & More

This time around we take a Journey To The Centre Of The Earth; discover a Resurrection Of Evil; Cage Dive gives a new meaning to going ‘down under’; Belle Du Jour is the order of the day; A Kind Of Murder is suspect in more ways than [...]

October 28, 2017

CLOSED Competition: Win KILLING HASSELHOFF On DVD

To celebrate the release of David Hasselhoff starrer Killing Hasselhoff on DVD on October 2, Movies In Focus is giving away copies of the film on DVD to 3 lucky readers. The synopsis: When Chris (Ken Jeong) a struggling nightclub owner, fails to [...]

October 2, 2017

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: MINDHORN, SONG TO SONG, THE SLAYER & THE HUNTER’S PRAYER

Go back to the 1980s with Mindhorn, Terrence Malick disappoints with Song To Song, discover the greatest horror you’ve never seen in The Slayer and Jonathan Mostow and Sam Worthington miss the target with The Hunter’s Prayer. Blu-ray Review: [...]

September 4, 2017

Celebrate 60 Years Of Hammer Horror

Readers of Movies in Focus will know that I have a huge appreciation for Hammer Horror movies. The films from the British horror studio have a style of their own and they dripped with a wonderful gothic atmosphere. Hammer’s first horror film [...]

August 5, 2017

DVD Review: Hugh Jackman And James Mangold Give Us LOGAN – The Comic Book Movie We Needed

A neo-western told through the prism of a comic book movie, James Mangold’s Logan takes Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and breaks him into a thousand pieces, rebuilding him as a tragic character approaching the twilight of his life. Jackman’s [...]

July 22, 2017

CLOSED Competition: Win DETOUR Starring Tye Sheridan, Emory Cohen & Bel Powley On DVD

To celebrate the release of Detour on DVD 24th July, Movies In Focus would like to give you the chance win a copy of your very own! When law student Harper (Tye Sheridan – X-Men: Apocalypse) wakes with an almighty hangover the last thing he [...]

July 12, 2017

Coming This Summer: BATMAN AND HARLEY QUINN

Batman and Harley Quinn shared the screen in last year’s under-rated Suicide Squad (read the Movies In Focus review) – and 2017 celebrates the 25 Anniversary of Batman: The Animated Series and the creation on Harley Quinn. This summer [...]

June 21, 2017

Listen Up UK: Get Ready To Take Home Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT

Writer-Director Ben Affleck‘s Live By Night was a wonderful gangster movie throwback which didn’t get the audience it deserved on the big screen (what the hell is wrong with you people?). It was a luscious thriller, filled with great [...]

April 26, 2017

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Hits Blu-ray, DVD & VOD In June

Movies In Focus loves some Batman – and The Lego Movie was pretty fantastic. Therefore I’ll be checking out The Lego Batman Movie when it hits Blu-ray, DVD & VOD on 19 June 2017 (the 25th anniversary of Batman Returns). The [...]

April 12, 2017

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: ARRIVAL, HOUSE: THE COLLECTION, THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN, TOMBOY & More

A selection of new blu-ray and DVD releases. This time around: Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner prepare for an Arrival, Hailee Steinfeld is on The Edge Of Seventeen, Arrow Films presents House: The Collection, Michelle Rodriguez is given a (Re) [...]

April 8, 2017

DVD Review: Nicolas Cage & Don Johnson Star In The Blisteringly Intense VENGEANCE

Nicolas Cage and Don Johnson top-line Vengeance, a hard-hitting thriller which raises a lot of interesting moral questions over the course of its ninety-minute running time. In many ways Johnny Martin’s modern noir plays like a companion piece to [...]

March 2, 2017

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