gavin o’connor

Great Chat Between Ben Affleck & Matt Damon

The focus of this chat between good friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon is Affleck’s brilliant performance in Gavin O’Connor‘s 2020 movie The Way Back ( aka Finding The Way Back). Recorded in January 2021,  the conversation covers [...]

July 15, 2021

Finding The Way Back: Oscar Buzz For Ben Affleck

A film about searching for hope after failure, Gavin O’Connor’s The Way Back (also known as Finding The Way Back) is a film which is honest in its goals and aspirations. It might not win any awards for originality, but Ben Affleck has [...]

January 16, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Gavin O’Connor’s JANE GOT A GUN

The popularity for the western ebbs and flows and every time the genre looks ready to be put out to pasture, along comes a film which re-energises it and kicks-off a whole new spate of ‘oaters’. However, for every Dances With Wolves or True Grit [...]

September 21, 2020

Trailer: Ben Affleck Is FINDING THE WAY BACK

Movies In Focus thinks Finding The Way (also known as Torrance and The Way Back) back is going to deliver the goods in a big, big way. The Gavin O’Connor directed drama appears to have an incredibly strong Ben Affleck performance and I get [...]

November 14, 2019

Ben Affleck Is THE HAS-BEEN

It would seem like Ben Affleck is tackling the tabloid bull by its horns by starring in The Has-Been. Affleck has become a whipping boy to the rags following personal problems over the years and it looks like he’s going to face them [...]

June 12, 2018

Featurette For Ben Affleck’s THE ACCOUNTANT

Movies In Focus has always been a Ben Affleck man – from Good Will Hunting until today. That’s almost 20 years. He’s my kind of hombre. I like the look of The Accountant: The Accountant hits the UK on 4 November 2016. [...]

October 3, 2016

Trailer: Ben Affleck Is THE ACCOUNTANT

Ben Affleck’s next non-superhero, The Accountant hits screens in November, and the first trailer for Gavin O’Connor’s thriller has dropped. This looks great – and the November date means it might get some traction at the box office. We [...]

May 14, 2016

The JANE GOT A GUN Equation

Black Listed script + Natalie Portman + Joel Edgerton __________________________________________ X Gavin O’Connor + Bradley Cooper = Jane Got a Gun Lynne Ramsey + Michael Fassbender + Jude [...]

April 7, 2013