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CLOSED Competition: Win ANTHROPOID Starring Cillian Murphy & Jamie Dornan On DVD

World War II thriller Anthropoid starring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan hits DVD on 16 January 2016. Movies In Focus is giving away 3 copies of the film on DVD – and all you need to do to enter the competition is complete the below contact form [...]

January 10, 2017

CLOSED Competition: Win Family Comedy A DOZEN SUMMERS Starring Colin Baker On DVD

A Dozen Summers is a wonderful family comedy from writer-director Kenton Hall (read a review). The Leicester-set film is a welcome breath of fresh air in this bloated blockbuster-filled summer season and it’s really worth seeking out on disc [...]

August 27, 2016

DVD Review: A DOZEN SUMMERS Is A Fun-Filled Family Film

Getting the tone right for a family movie is incredibly difficult. If you make it too child friendly you can alienate the adults. Keeping the kids happy is even more difficult – they want to be entertained but they want enough of an edge so [...]

August 15, 2016

DVD Review: TALE OF TALES Is A Good Looking But Soulless Collection Of Adult Fairy Tales

Tale of Tales is a sumptuous looking adult fairy tale that makes for enjoyable viewing, however despite its top tier cast and quirky tone it’s all rather soulless and it fails to truly draw the viewer into its three interwoven stories. Matteo [...]

August 1, 2016

DVD Review: LAST GIRL STANDING Adds Something Fresh To The Slasher Movie

Horror movies have certain beats and certain rhythms that audiences have come to expect. One of these traditions is that any slasher movie usually ends with one final female who manages to escape the killer’s grasp. This is where [...]

July 28, 2016

DVD Review: Zack Snyder’s BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE Is Better Than Any Marvel Movie

Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice arrives on DVD after a massive hoo-ha following its appearance on the big screen. Boring, dark and dull – that’s what its critics have been saying. However, Zack Snyder has given us a superhero film [...]

July 26, 2016

A DOZEN SUMMERS Gets A DVD Release This Summer

Movies In Focus reviewed Leicester-shot A Dozen Summers last year, writing that ”Kenton Hall, the writer-director (and co-star) of A Dozen Summers manages to hit the mark with this low-budget comedy. Hall gives his film a zesty and vibrant [...]

June 19, 2016

Trailer For BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE Ultimate Edition Promises More

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition will run 182 minutes, 30 minutes longer than the theatrical cut of the Ben Affleck/Henry Cavill smack-down(read the Movies In Focus review). Thi R-rated version of Zack Snyder’s superhero [...]

June 3, 2016

DVD Review: Tim Roth Stars In Captivating Mexican Drama 600 MILES

Award-winning Mexican drama 600 Miles is an interesting little curiosity which captivates and engages even though there is very little happening on screen. It’s a simple and short tale (just 80 minutes long) which sees Tim Roth as Hank Harris, an [...]

May 30, 2016

Blu-ray Review: THE SURVIVALIST Is A Sombre Post-Apocalyptic Drama

Stephen Fingleton’s The Survivalist is a bleak and sombre post-apocalyptic drama. This Irish-shot film is not one for the Mad Max crowd, but the dark and deliberate tone is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (and John Hillcoat’s film). [...]

April 17, 2016

DVD Review: BROTHERS Is A Well Crafted Crime Drama

Brothers is a low budget British drama set within Manchester’s criminal underworld. Director Angel Delgado’s film transcends its financial limitations to be a well crafted thriller which is as much a document detailing the thriving criminality [...]

April 12, 2016

DVD Review: SCREAM PARK Is A Roller Coaster Of Horror Tropes

Riffing on the slasher movies of the 1980s, Scream Park (how has this title never been used before?) is a‘kill by numbers’ flick that sees the employees of a theme park killed off in a multitude of gory fashions. Funded by a Kisckstarter [...]

March 20, 2016

The Wait Is Nearly Over! STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS In-Home Trailer

I don’t remember the last time I was excited about getting a movie on DVD/Blu-ray. However, I think we can all agree that Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a special cinematic event. It brought a lot of people together in a way that I [...]

March 3, 2016

CLOSED Competition: Win Sci-Fi Drama AVARICE On DVD

Sci-fi drama Avarice starring Kevin Sorbo and Michael London hits DVD on Monday March 14, 2016 (buy it from Amazon). The synopsis: 50 years ago, a mysterious black box falls to earth from space. A woman wakes up in the middle of the night and sneaks [...]

March 2, 2016

DVD Review: Andrew Garfield And Michael Shannon Star In Credit Crunch Drama 99 HOMES

Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon use their superhero movie clout to star in director Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes. Both Garfield and Shannon offer-up great performances in this morally ambiguous credit-crunch drama. Garfield plays Dennis, a [...]

January 20, 2016

DVD Review: Kristen Stewart Stars In Guantanamo Bay Drama CAMP X-RAY

Camp X-Ray is a solid drama set within the confines of Guantanamo Bay, Kristen Stewart is the young soldier who strikes-up an unlikely relationship with one of the camp’s detainees (they can’t be called prisoner’s because they’d be given [...]

January 18, 2016

DVD Review: The BBC’s AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Is A Hugely Satisfying Whodunnit

The BBC has delivered a wonderful TV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Sarah Phelps writes and Craig Viveiros directs this three-part thriller which features an impressive line-up of actors (Charles Dance, Sam Neill, Toby [...]

January 9, 2016

DVD Review: VAMPIRES Isn’t A Bloodless Low Budget Horror Movie

Vampire movies have been with cinema since its inception. Good, bad and indifferent, there have been so many over the years that you sometimes can’t even tell if the next one will be great or a total waste of time. It’s a difficult horror [...]

December 6, 2015

DVD Review: Pierce Brosnan Shows You How To Make Love Like An Englishman In LESSONS IN LOVE

Lessons In Love (aka Some Kind of Beautiful/ How to Make Love Like an Englishman) is a light and breezy romantic comedy that sees Pierce Brosnan exude effortless charm as Richard Haig, a womanising lecturer whose life hits a major bump when his [...]

November 15, 2015

DVD Review: THE TRIBE Throws Convention Out The Window And Pushes The Boundaries Of Cinema

Most films follow a certain set of cinematic rules. Narrative conventions sit side-by-side with certain rules and concepts which have been with cinema since its inception. Shot composition and edit rules have remained the same for over 100 years, [...]

September 17, 2015

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