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Behind The Scenes: Mel Gibson & Frank Grillo On The Set Of BOSS LEVEL

Joe Carnahan’s 2021 release, Boss Level sees Frank Grillo play Ray Pulver, a former Special Ops soldier who wakes-up every morning with someone trying to kill him. His day goes from bad to worse and when he has to re-live it over and over [...]

February 13, 2022

Harold Ramis’ MULTIPLICITY Starring Michael Keaton Is A Comedy Masterpiece

The late, great Harold Ramis’ 1996 film Multiplicity is one of the all-time great comedies. Michael Keaton is superb as Doug Kinney, the family man who is so busy in life that gets cloned three times in order to keep up with his demeaning [...]

November 21, 2021

Remembering The Great Harold Ramis

The great Harold Ramis would have been 77 years old on 21 November 2021. He passed away on the 24 February, 2014 at the age of 69 from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis. To many he will always be Egon Spengler in the Ghostbusters movies but to [...]

November 21, 2021

Stephen King, Jerry Bruckheimer, Bill Murray And Ethan Coen – A Day For Talent

Maybe it’s prophecy, or just coincidence – but Stephen King (74) Jerry Bruckheimer (78), Bill Murray (71) and Ethan Coen (64) were all born on the same date (21 September). That’s an impressive group of talent to share a birthday. These men [...]

September 21, 2021

Notebook Reviews: GROUNDHOG DAY

Harold Ramis – 1993. Director Harold Ramis‘ Groundhog Day is a true comedy classic. The great Bill Murray is on peak form as the grouchy weatherman forced to relive the same day over and over. It might just be Murray’s most [...]

September 2, 2021

Review: Frank Grillo Shows Mel Gibson Who’s Boss In Joe Carnahan’s BOSS LEVEL

Joe Carnahan’s Boss Level is a gut-punching, bone-crunching, ball-busting action film which embraces every inch of its darkly comedic conceit. The Frank Grillo starrer is a brilliant throwback pic, which plays like Edge Of Tomorrow meets [...]

March 2, 2021

Groundhog Day With Grit: Hulu Trailer For Joe Carnahan’s BOSS LEVEL Starring Frank Grillo & Mel Gibson

Joe Carnahan’s Boss Level will explode onto Hulu on 5 March – and now we get the first good look at the film with this international trailer. Carnahan’s film looks totally gonzo – Groundhog Day with extra grit. Whatever [...]

February 14, 2021

Trailer: Joe Carnahan’s BOSS LEVEL Starring Frank Grillo & Mel Gibson Looks Totally Gonzo!

Joe Carnahan’s Boss Level will explode onto Hulu this March – and now we get the first good look at the film with this international trailer. Carnahan’s film looks totally gonzo – Groundhog Day meets The Punisher. Or [...]

January 19, 2021

Notebook Reviews: CLUB PARADISE

Harold Ramis – 1986 It’s hard to believe that the great Harold Ramis, the man behind such comedy classics such as Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Multiplicity was responsible for Club Paradise. It’s not funny, it’s badly [...]

September 14, 2020

Why MULTIPLICITY Starring Michael Keaton Is One Of The All Time Great Comedy Films

Harold Ramis’ 1996 film Multiplicity is one of the all-time great comedies. Michael Keaton is superb as Doug Kinney, the family man who is so busy in life that gets cloned three times in order to keep up with his demeaning existence. Based on a [...]

May 11, 2020

DVD Review: BLOOD PUNCH Is Hard To Define – But That Doesn’t Stop It Being Great

Sometimes little movies come along and knock your socks off. That happened to Movies In Focus with Blood Punch, an energetic little genre movie. Madellaine Paxson’s film almost defies classification, a sci-fi-comedy-horror-romance which feels as [...]

January 22, 2017

Do The Time Warp: Ten Time Travel Movies

The latest film in a long line of time travel classics, Project Almanac follows a brilliant high school student and his friends who discover blueprints for a machine that can send them back in time. This latest foray into the popular [...]

June 8, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Live/Die/Repeat – Watch Tom Cruise Again And Again In EDGE OF TOMORROW

Edge Of Tomorrow is one of the the few action movies to grace recent summers that hasn’t been a superhero franchise, a sequel, a prequel or a reboot (or all of those combined). Tom Cruise stars in this Doug Liman directed science fiction film [...]

October 16, 2014