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DVD Review: John Travolta Pictures One Last Crime In Drama THE FORGER

The Forger is a low key crime drama with John Travolta as an art forger forced to do the infamous ‘one last job’ so that he can spend time with his terminally ill son. It’s a very well acted film that (ironically) may not be wholly original [...]

September 12, 2015

DVD Review: Tom Hardy Leads A Great Cast In CHILD 44 But The Film Fails To Captivate

On paper Child 44 is an absolute corker: Ridley Scott producing a 1950s-set Soviet serial killer movie starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Vincent Cassel, Jason Clarke, Joel Kinnaman and Charles Dance. The reality of the situation is very [...]

August 23, 2015

DVD Review: Embrace The Wild West With HELL ON WHEELS – The Complete Fourth Season

Hell On Wheels’ Fourth Season delivers more western shenanigans with Anson Mount once again proving that he’s a great leading man. This 13 episode season continues the story of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in a time when men where [...]

August 17, 2015

DVD Review: Meta Horror Reboot/Sequel THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN

Horror reboots and sequels are ten a penny and most of them aren’t very good. However, the remake/sequel of The Town That Dreaded Sundown hits the mark and offers something new, even if it is a beat-for-beat redo of Charles B. Pierce’s 1976 [...]

August 8, 2015

DVD Review: Irish Found Footage Horror INVOKED Is Definitely Worth A Look

Movies In Focus lets out an audible groan when it’s time to review a found footage horror movie. They’re usually always bad, but every so often a little gem manages to float to to the surface of the quagmire. Invoked happens to be a good one, a [...]

August 1, 2015

DVD Review: Low Budget Napoleonic Zombie Movie FALLEN SOLDIERS Is Looking Sharpe

You have to give it to director Bill Thomas for making period zombie movie Fallen Soldiers. It’s a low budget effort that tries to offer something new to the incredibly popular horror sub-genre. Thomas’ film, Pitched as ‘The Walking Dead meets [...]

July 18, 2015

DVD Review: Is JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL TV Magic?

The lines between television and film are now blurred. What was once seen as the poor relation is now the place that’s pushing boundaries in storytelling. The big screen may have always had the scope for spectacle but that’s no longer the case. [...]

July 1, 2015

DVD Review: IT FOLLOWS Is A Perfectly Realised Piece Of Horror Filmmaking

It Follows is a horror film that is filled with tense atmosphere. Writer-director David Robert Mitchell refrains from using cheap scares, upping the tension to give the film an eerie atmosphere that makes it feel refreshing in a genre that is now [...]

June 28, 2015

Review: Jean-Claude Van Damme Wants His Kidney Back In POUND OF FLESH

Few do slam-bam action quite like Jean-Claude Van Damme. He’s been knocking out a variety of actioners for over the the last three decades and his output doesn’t appear to be slowing down as the big 60 looms on the horizon. Pound Of Flesh sees [...]

June 18, 2015

DVD Review: Karl Urban And James Marsden Lead The Cast Of THE LOFT

The Loft sees Erik Van Looy update his own 2008 Belgian thriller with a Hollywood. Karl Urban and James Marsden, Matthias Schoenaerts, Wentworth Miller and Eric Stonestreet star in the decidedly ‘90s thriller as a group of upwardly mobile alpha [...]

June 15, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Alfred Hitchcock’s Terrorist Thriller SABOTAGE – As Relevant As It Was In 1936

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1936 film is one of the master of suspense’s earlier efforts, but it once again shows why he’s one of cinema’s greatest directors. Based on Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent Sabotage follows a cinema owner turned bomber [...]

June 6, 2015

DVD Reviews: Orson Welles’ TOO MUCH JOHNSON, THE IMMORTAL STORY And FALSTAFF/CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT

Orson Welles was a true master of cinema. He was a larger than life character who lived for film. Welles was a cinematic savant, a man who organically knew the language of the medium. After a career on the stage and radio, he exploded onto the film [...]

May 23, 2015

DVD Review: Do Clint Eastwood And Bradley Cooper Hit The Target With AMERICAN SNIPER?

Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper charts the military career or Chris Kyle, ‘the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history’. It’s a well composed war drama with a muscular central performance from Bradley Cooper. It doesn’t break new [...]

May 17, 2015

DVD Review: Will THE SLEEPING ROOM Keep You Awake at Night?

Brit horror The Sleeping Room has some good atmosphere woven into its tight running time (it clocks in at just 77 minutes). It might be silly as hell but there’s an air of freshness to this John Shackleton directed fright piece. Leila Mimmack is [...]

May 11, 2015

DVD Review: BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) Is A Modern Classic

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a complex film that needs multiple viewings to fully appreciate its wonderful richness. Movies In Focus reviewed the film on its cinema release but this is a fresh take on the dvd release of [...]

May 10, 2015

DVD Review: Will You Worship At The Altar Of THE HAUNTING OF RADCLIFFE HOUSE?

Writer-director Nick Willing’s The Haunting of Radcliffe House is an old fashioned ghost story steeped in fantastic atmosphere. It hits the mark for those wanting a horror film light on gore and high on tension. Matthew Modine and Olivia Williams [...]

May 9, 2015

Watch Michael Keaton Talk About The Density Of BIRDMAN

Michael Keaton scored awards galore for his stunning turn in Birdman. He narrowly missed out on an Academy Award and a Bafta for his performance, but sadly he was beaten to the gold by The Theory of Everything‘s Eddie Redmayne. That [...]

May 6, 2015

DVD Review: WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS – A Vampire Comedy That Doesn’t Suck

What We Do In The Shadows is a a New Zealand comedy written and directed by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. The ‘mockumentary’ follows the lives of four vampires: Viago (Waiyiti), Vladislav (Clement), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh) and Petyr (Ben [...]

March 30, 2015

DVD Review: Learn Another 26 Ways To Die In THE ABCs OF DEATH 2

Anthology sequel The ABCs Of Death 2 ups the comedy quota from the original ABCs of Death and lowers the amount of horror. However you can rest assured that things are kept incredibly bloody. Like the first film, this features 26 short films based [...]

March 21, 2015

DVD Review: FAIRY TALE: A TRUE STORY Is A Fairly Good Telling Of A True Fairy Story

Produced by Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions, Fairy Tale: A True Story is a fictitious take on the true life tale that saw Elsie Wright and Frances Griffith take photographs of what they claimed to be fairies in their garden. The story (known as the [...]

March 15, 2015

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