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Trailer & Poster: Emile Hirsch & John Cusack Star In The Action Thriller PURSUIT

For better or for worse, Movies In Focus will watch anything starring John Cusack. That’s means I’ll be giving Pursuit a go when it hit select US cinema screens and On Demand on 18 February 2022. Directed by Brian Skiba, the [...]

January 6, 2022

Trailer & Poster: Jesse Metcalfe, Chad Michael Murray & Bruce Willis In FORTRESS

Ageing action star Bruce Willis is back in DTV/VOD action cameo mode (is there any other mode these days) in director James Cullen Bressack‘s Fortress. It’s another thriller from prolific producer Randall Emmett – a man who has [...]

November 13, 2021

Review: MIDNIGHT IN THE SWITCHGRASS Starring Megan Fox, Emile Hirsch & Bruce Willis Is Dire

Another week brings another movie that sees the once great Bruce Willis sleepwalk his way through 12 minutes of screen-time for a $1 million payday. This time around the film is Midnight In The Switchgrass, a serial killer movie which marks the [...]

July 29, 2021

Trailer: Randall Emmett’s MIDNIGHT IN THE SWITCHGRASS Starring Megan Fox, Emile Hirsch & Bruce Willis

Prolific producer Randall Emmett makes his directing debut with Midnight In The Switchgrass, a serial killer thriller starring the eclectic mix of Megan Fox, Bruce Willis, Emile Hirsch, Lukas Haas, Colson ‘Machine Gun Kelly’ Baker, [...]

June 10, 2021

Remembering André Øvreda’s THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE Starring Brian Cox & Emile Hirsch

The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a wonderfully atmospheric horror film that sees father and son morticians (Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch) carrying out an autopsy on the corpse of an unknown young woman (Olwen Kelly). The corpse seems mysteriously pristine [...]

May 4, 2021

Remembering William Friedkin’s Raw & Visceral KILLER JOE Starring Matthew McConaughey

The mighty William Friedkin’s 2012 thriller, Killer Joe is raw and visceral. It’s not a pleasant watch by any stretch of the imagination- but it is good. Very good. Friedkin has always been a director willing to push cinematic boundaries (see [...]

September 26, 2020

Review: Mel Gibson Chews The Scenery In The Pulpy And Entertaining FORCE OF NATURE

There’s some serious fun to be had if you surrender to the deliciously pulpy charms of Michael Polish’s Force Of Nature. This throwback action film top-lined by Emile Hirsch, Kate Bosworth and Mel Gibson, keeps things simple and entertains [...]

June 29, 2020

When In Rains, It Pours: Trailer For Mel Gibson Thriller FORCE OF NATURE

Michael Polish’s Force Of Nature looks like a hell of a lot of fun. This one location action film Michael Polish sees Mel Gibson, Emile Hirsch and Kate Bosworth facing-off against a gang of thieves during a hurricane. Movies In Focus is [...]

May 19, 2020

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE, ELLE, THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE & More

A selection of new blu-ray and DVD releases. This time around: There’s thrills a plenty in classic French thriller Les Diaboliques, the Dork Knight rises in The Lego Batman Movie, Isabelle Huppert stars in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, Marlon [...]

June 18, 2017

Review: Matthew McConaughey Is A Revelation In William Friedkin’s KILLER JOE

The great William Friedkin’s Killer Joe is raw and visceral. It’s not a pleasant watch by any stretch of the imagination- but it is good. Very good. Friedkin has always been a director willing to push cinematic boundaries (see The Exorcist and [...]

July 12, 2012