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DUNE, THE BATMAN, THE FLASH & More Delayed By Warner Bros

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the theatrical landscape. Warner Bros. has now moved Denis Villeneuve’s Dune from 18 December 2020 to 1 October, 2021. That means that The Batman has now shifted from that date to 4 March 2022. This [...]

October 6, 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

FAST & FURIOUS 9 Trailer: Stupid

Movies In Focus has only ever seen one instalment of the ‘Fast & Furious Saga‘ – 2015’s Fast & Furious 7 – and I enjoyed the hell out of it. This ninth instalment of the near 20 year-old franchise looks like [...]

February 1, 2020

Blu-ray Review: SKYSCRAPER With Dwayne Johnson Ain’t No Die Hard

Dwayne Johnson is up to his usual muscle-bound shenanigans in Skyscraper, a glossy high-octane, but soulless action extravaganza from director Rawson Marshall Thurber. It’s pretty much Die Hard for the Instagram age, minus the genius of John [...]

November 22, 2018

Blu-ray & DVD Review Round-Up: READY PLAYER ONE, ISLE OF DOGS, JOURNEYMAN, A QUIET PLACE & More

This time around: Steven Spielberg goes inside the Oasis in Ready Player One, Wes Anderson takes us to the Isle of Dogs, Paddy Considine is a Journeyman, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski go to A Quiet Place, Dwayne Johnson goes on a Rampage and Paul [...]

August 19, 2018

CLOSED Competition: Win JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE On Blu-ray

To celebrate the DVD release of Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle on DVD/Blu-ray/VOD this April, Movies In Focus is giving a copy of the Dwayne Johnson starrer on blu-ray to one lucky reader of the site. When four high-school kids discover an old [...]

April 24, 2018

Nine JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Featurettes!

People assumed that Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle would make money at the box office (well, it does star Dwayne Johnson) – but I don’t think they imagined it would bank more than $404 million in the US and over $956 million globally! [...]

April 24, 2018

Gavin O’Connor To Direct SUICIDE SQUAD 2: Will He Take Ben Affleck With Him?

For a brief moment it looked like Jaume Collet-Serra would direct Suicide Squad 2. However, he decided to ditch the project to direct Dwayne Johnson in Jungle Cruise. But the director’s chair wasn’t vacant for long, as Gavin [...]

September 7, 2017

I Don’t Know What The Hell Is Going On With This Trailer For THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS

Who knew that 2001’s Fast and the Furious would have rumbled on to its seventh sequel – now craftily titled Fate of the Furious. I didn’t know that I’d dip into the franchise during episode 7 and enjoy the hell out of it [...]

December 12, 2016

Born Again Actors: Alternative Hollywood Careers

It’s no secret that many actors feel they were born to act; that they wouldn’t know what they’d do if they couldn’t go on set or grace the silver screen any longer. Actors such as former child star turned cinematic chameleon Daniel Radcliffe [...]

October 26, 2016

New FAST 8 Image Shows Everyone In Hollywood

Vin Diesel unleashed a new behind the scene pic from Fast 8 – and it pretty much shows everyone in Hollywood. Jason Statham, Kristofer Hivju, Kurt ‘The Legend’ Russell, Tyrese Gibson, Charlize Theron, Vin Diesel, Michelle [...]

June 6, 2016

Man of Iron Dwayne Johnson Toplines Shane Black’s DOC SAVAGE

Movies In Focus remembers when Doc Savage was going to be an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie (way back in the late nineties/early noughties) – now in 2016 it’s a Dwayne Johnson vehicle written/directed by Shane Black. I’d still rather see [...]

May 31, 2016

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