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Teaser Trailer For Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER

The very first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer has arrived – and it very much fits into the director’s oeuvre. It’s precise, cool and a little clinical. This gives little away, but when the film is a year [...]

July 28, 2022

The Dark Knight: A Look Back At Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy

Little did we know how much mainstream moviemaking would change when Christopher Nolan was charged with rebooting the Batman franchise. Released in 2005, Nolan’s Batman Begins took The Dark Knight and transported Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s [...]

December 12, 2021

Notebook Reviews: AIR FORCE ONE

Wolfgang Petersen – 1997. German director Wolfgang Petersen‘s Air Force One is an entertaining action film with a good turn from the always reliable Harrison Ford. Ford plays the US President tackling terrorists on the titular aircraft, [...]

September 13, 2021

Oscars 2021: The Full Academy Awards Winners List

The big winner at the 93rd Academy Awards was Nomadland, scoring three wins for Best Picture, Best Director for Chloe Zhao (the first woman of colour and only second woman to win best director)and Best Actress for Frances McDormand. Anthony [...]

April 26, 2021

Behind The Scenes: David Fincher & Gary Oldman On The Set Of MANK

Is David Fincher‘s Mank a bad film? No, far from it, it’s brilliantly made but it doesn’t work as a piece of finely tuned narrative filmmaking. There’s no drive, no momentum. I’m disappointed to say it, but I found Mank middling [...]

March 30, 2021

Review: David Fincher’s MANK Is Middling Rather Than Masterful

Mank is a gloriously well built film on a technical level, one which is expertly put together by director David Fincher. However, it’s a film without heart and narrative direction. Set in the 1930s and 1940s, the film is mainly about the [...]

March 24, 2021

Podcast – Episode 1: Writer & Director Nicholas Jarecki Talks To Movies In Focus

Writer and director Nicholas Jarecki talks to Niall Browne about his opioid thriller Crisis, starring Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer & Evangeline Lilly. Listen below or subscribe wherever you get your [...]

March 20, 2021

Review: Nicholas Jarecki’s Opioid Thriller CRISIS Starring Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer & Evangeline Lilly Provokes & Engages

Writer/director Nicholas Jarecki’s Crisis is a punchy thriller, which offers audiences a thought-provoking piece of grown-up cinema. Jarecki uses the every real opioid crisis as the basis for three interwoven stories which focus on different [...]

March 17, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Koldo Serra’s THE BACKWOODS

HE Every so often a film comes along that reassures your faith in cinema. If doesn’t have to be a huge blockbuster or even the most acclaimed art house film, it can be a little film that entertains and captures your attention without letting go. [...]

January 31, 2021

Full Trailer For David Fincher’s MANK

We all know that David Fincher‘s Mank is going to top tier stuff. That’s to be expected from a master craftsman like Fincher. The film about the writing of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane has also had a great marketing campaign by [...]

October 22, 2020

Another Great Piece Of Marketing For David Fincher’s MANK

Whoever is in charge of the marketing for David Fincher‘s Netflix movie, Mank is doing a great job. We have a wonderful old-fashioned trailer – and now this beautiful poster delivers in a big, big way. The poster for the Netflix film [...]

October 21, 2020

Glorious Teaser Trailer For David Fincher’s MANK

The colour, the textures – you can tell that the mighty David Fincher has gone all-out in recreating the feel of classic movies for Mank. The film follows Gary Oldman‘s Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Orson [...]

October 8, 2020

First Images From David Fincher’s MANK

Netflix has dropped the first images from David Fincher‘s Mank. The film sees Gary Oldman play Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he suffers many trials and tribulations whilst working on the screenplay for Orson Welles’ [...]

September 6, 2020

Trailer For Steven Soderbergh’s THE LAUNDROMAT

God bless Steven Soderbergh, the patron saint of cinema. He’s one of the few still delivering top-tier movies, where the focus is character and plot – not super powers and spandex. It looks like Soderbergh is going to deliver again with [...]

August 28, 2019

Blu-ray & DVD Review Round-Up: HUNTER KILLER, REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN, THE UNHOLY & MORE

This time around: Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman take to the seas in Hunter Killer, meet the men of steel in Reign Of The Supermen, Heaven and Hell collide in The Unholy, Parents are weird and party like the Class Of 1999. Blu-ray Review: Hunter [...]

January 26, 2019

Academy Awards: 2018 Oscars Winners And Nominees

The 2018 Oscars offered no surprises. Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney all won. Roger Deakins finally scored a little bald man and Guillermo De Toro bagged Best Director. Get Out brought home the Best Screenplay for [...]

March 5, 2018

Movies In Focus At The 2018 BAFTA Film Awards And The Full Winners List

On 18 February 2018, the cream of the film industry once again descended on the Royal Albert Hall for the 2018 EE British Academy Film Awards (that’s the Baftas to you and me). Movies In Focus was on the red carpet to cover the event – [...]

February 19, 2018

Golden Globes 2018 Winners List

And the Awards Season has officially begun with the 75th Golden Globe Awards. The ceremony had a mixed bunch of winners – but at this stage it looks like the season belongs to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Gary Oldman won Best [...]

January 8, 2018

Movie Version Of Joe Orton’s PRICK UP YOUR EARS Back On Screen This Summer In The UK

2017 celebrates 5o years since the death of infamous Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton. In fact, 2017 is the year of Orton as Nottingham’s National Justice Museum will also be launching a Joe Orton exhibition this summer following a hugely [...]

June 21, 2017

All Eyez On Me: The Best Music Biopics

Musicians are often some of the most interesting, unique, scrutinised and debated over figures in popular culture, which has led to a plethora of music biopics over the years. While many simply follow the same well trodden narratives that biopics [...]

June 21, 2017

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