game of thrones

Trailer For Neil Marshall’s Plague Horror/Thriller THE RECKONING Starring Charlotte Kirk & Sean Pertwee

Movies In Focus has been looking forward to Neil Marshall’s The Reckoning for a long time. The horror/thriller starring Charlotte Kirk and Sean Pertwee is almost here – and it looks great. Marshall’s film appears to have fantastic [...]

January 6, 2021

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review: HERSELF

Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself is a film which doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. On one hand it would like to be a gritty Ken Loach-style drama about surviving domestic abuse and on the other it wants to be an uplifting quasi-comedy littered [...]

October 9, 2020

Neil Marshall’s DOG SOLDIERS Gets A New 4K Restoration – And A Re-Release!

Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers is an exceptionally refreshing piece of horror cinema. The set-up to Marshall’s 2002 fright pic is classic: Zulu meets Aliens with werewolves – and it’s every bit as good as you would expect. Funny and scary, [...]

September 7, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Martin Koolhoven’s Dark Western BRIMSTONE

Writer-director Martin Koolhoven delivers a dark and macabre western in the shape of Brimstone. Divided into four sections (Revelation, Exodus, Genesis and Retribution), the film flips chronology to unveil different layers to the story. Dakota [...]

July 12, 2020

Trailer For Serial Killer Thriller THE SILENCING Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau & Annabelle Wallis

There’s a serious 1990s vibe to be felt in this trailer for director Robin Pront’s serial killer thriller, The Silencing. In fact, the shadow of Jonathan Demme’s The Silence Of The Lambs appears to loom large over the film which [...]

June 28, 2020

Max Von Sydow Dies Aged 90

The great Max von Sydow has died at the age of 90. The iconic actor had a fascinating career, making 11 films with director Ingmar Bergman, including 1957’s The Seventh Seal. He would then go on to score over 100 credits in a variety of genres [...]

March 9, 2020

Review: Brian De Palma’s DOMINO Is A Disappointing Dud

Any Brian De Palma is better than no Brian De Palma. That’s the way to look at any film from one of cinema’s greatest thriller directors. However, it’s a serious shame that Domino feels like the master has had his edges shaved, leaving [...]

July 30, 2019

Review: The Powerful CHERNOBYL Embraces Subtlety Over Spectacle

Writer Craig Mazin’s Chernobyl is something of a subtle masterpiece. This five-part series about one of mankind’s greatest disasters could have gone down the tried and tested disaster movie road, throwing well worn tropes at viewers as a way of [...]

July 6, 2019

GAME OF THRONES: THE LAST WATCH At Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema

David Benioff and D. B. Weiss’ Game Of Thrones became a full-blown cultural phenomenon. The HBO adaptation of George R.R Martin’s book series managed to capture the hearts and minds of a diverse range of people – even those who [...]

May 29, 2019

Enter The Dragon: Trailer For The Final Season Of GAME OF THRONES

Dragons, battles, ice and fire. The final season of Game of Thrones looks to have everything fans have grown to love about the epic HBO series. Comprised of six episodes, this eighth season of the George R.R. Martin-created series is set to pack a [...]

March 5, 2019

Winter Is Here: GAME OF THRONES Season 8 Teaser

The eighth and final season of Game Of Thrones hits HBO on 14 April. We’ll finally discover who lives, who dies and who ultimately wins the game. Here’s the new teaser for the show, which puts the focus on Kit Harrington’s Jon [...]

January 14, 2019

Review: Sophie Turner And Dylan McDermott Work Hard But They Can’t Bring Noir JOSIE To Life

A modern day noir, Josie is a film which only registers because of the performances from leads Sophie Turner and Dylan Mc Dermott. Both actors get the opportunity to play with their genre stereotypes, and they deliver good work in-spite of the [...]

December 29, 2018

1 2 3 … 6 »