fast and the furious

RED ONE: Dwayne Johnson Represents Everything Wrong With Modern Cinema

Dwayne Johnson seems like a nice guy. Johnson is personable in interviews and he has a charismatic screen presence – but unfortunately he makes junk. Films like Jumanji: The Next Level, Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, Skyscraper, [...]

June 29, 2021

Poster For Renny Harlin’s Heist Film THE MISFITS Starring Pierce Brosnan

Here’s the poster for Renny Harlin‘s slick looking heist thriller, The Misfits. The mighty Pierce Brosnan leads the cast of the film which also stars Jamie Chung, Tim Roth, Hermione Corfield, Rami Jaber, Mike Angelo and Nick Cannon. [...]

April 29, 2021

Trailer: Pierce Brosnan Gets Fast & Furious In Renny Harlin’s THE MISFITS

It looks like the mighty Pierce Brosnan is getting fast and furious in Renny Harlin‘s new action thriller, The Misfits. This trailer shows some serious full throttle action – and The Misfits looks like the high octane summer blockbuster [...]

April 27, 2021

Your Brain Will Hurt After Watching This FAST & FURIOUS 9 Trailer

This trailer for Fast & Furious 9 is certainly…something. There’s so much going on here that my brain can’t process the action. Any pretence that this series is based in reality is long gone – this is comic book stuff [...]

April 14, 2021

The Mighty Kurt Russell

The mighty Kurt Russell turned 70 years old on 17 March 2021. The iconic actor has had a long and varied career, starring in a variety of beloved cult classics and out-right global blockbusters. Russell brings a laid-back, blue-collar vibe to his [...]

March 17, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Ryan Gosling & Nicolas Winding Refn On The Set Of 2011’s DRIVE

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive is great filmmaking at its best – a story of enormous depth, told simply, which is visually stunning without being overly showy. There’s also that soundtrack. The film still holds-up a decade on. Drive is a [...]

January 20, 2021

COVID 19 Crisis: Cinema Closures & Cancellations Caused By Coronavirus

COVID-19 is a world-changing virus which is impacting everyone’s day-to-day life. People are out of work, businesses have closed and there’s stockpiling food and supplies. It’s like something straight out of a disaster movie. [...]

March 20, 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

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

Diesel Powered FAST 8 Might Become The Fast And The Furiosa

The Fast and Furious franchise continues to mix things up in many surprising ways. The Vin Diesel-led series has added the likes of Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham and Kurt Russell as it went along – and now it would seem that Charlize Theron [...]

February 10, 2016

Trailer For STAR TREK BEYOND Sees Chris Pine And Crew Boldly Go Where They’ve Never Gone Before

It looks like Chris Pine and company will finally get to go where no one has gone before in Star Trek Beyond. Action and adventure seem to be the order of the day in this first trailer for the sci-fi sequel. Fast And Furious director Justin Lin [...]

December 14, 2015

Be Extreme With The New Trailer For POINT BREAK

Warner Bros will be very happy indeed if its remake of Point Break grosses a fraction of the money the Fast And Furious franchise has scored at the box office. Director Ericson (awesome name) Core’s film sees Luke Bracey infiltrate a group of [...]

September 19, 2015

Blu-ray Review: FAST & FURIOUS 7 Is Diesel Powered Blockbusting Fun

Few would have imagined in 2001 that The Fast And The Furious franchise would be going almost fifteen years later and that the franchise would be one of the most lucrative in cinematic history. Fast & Furious 7 (also known as Fast 7) grossed [...]

September 6, 2015

Get Ready To Take FAST AND FURIOUS 7 Home With This Behind The Scenes Video

Fast & Furious 7 has grossed more than $1.5 billion globally. That makes it (at the time of writing) the fourth highest grossing film of all time. The Vin Diesel/Paul Walker/Dwayne Johnson/Jason Statham/Kurt Russell actioner hits DVD and [...]

July 9, 2015

Dwayne Johnson To Produce And Star In A Remake Of John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

Movies In Focus can smell what The Rock is cooking – and it’s Chinese food. Dwayne Johnson is set to produce and star in a remake John Carpenter’s Big Trouble In Little China. The 1986 cult classic starred Kurt Russell as witless trucker Jack [...]

June 2, 2015

Watch This Trailer And Tell Me If You Find The POINT BREAK Remake Fast And Furious

Without Point Break we wouldn’t have The Fast And The Furious franchise – Warner Bros knows that and it now wants a piece of that multi-billion dollar pie. They’re remaking the 1991 Patrick Swayze/Keanu Reeves thriller, upping the scope [...]

May 30, 2015

The Rise Of Global Box Office And The Capital ‘B’ In Show Business

Movies are made for shareholders and rarely because there’s an organic storytelling need. There has always been show business, but today there’s a capital ‘B’ in the business side of things. A lot of money is being pumped [...]

December 6, 2014

DVD Review: Vin Diesel Goes Back To Sci-Fi Basics With RIDDICK

Riddick really shouldn’t be very good. The film, a second sequel to 2000’s cult hit Pitch Black follows in the heels of 2004’s lacklustre The Chronicles of Riddick. That film was has been derided for its attempt to turn the ‘Riddick’ [...]

January 11, 2014

FAST AND FURIOUS Star Paul Walker Dies In Car Accident

Paul Walker, best known for starring in the Fast and the Furious movies has died at the age of 40. The actor was a passenger in a car that crashed into a light pole following a charity event in Los Angeles. While I’m no big fan of Walker’s, I do [...]

December 1, 2013

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