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Where’s The Originality? Trailer For Game Of Thrones Spin-Off HOUSE OF THE DRAGON

Movies In Focus was a huge fan of Game Of Thrones. The final seasons weren’t perfect, but what are you going to do – create an online petition to have them reshot? The show was expertly made, well crafted and it brought people into the [...]

July 21, 2022

Journey To Night Country: Jodie Foster To Star In TRUE DETECTIVE Season 4

Following in the footsteps of Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell, double Oscar winner Jodie Foster has signed-on to star in (and executive produce) the fourth season of HBO’s True Detective. Foster will play Detective Liz Danvers in the [...]

May 27, 2022

Behind The Scenes: Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron & John Frankenheimer On The Set Of REINDEER GAMES

Director John Frankenheimer’s Reindeer Games (aka Deception) is a festive thriller starring Ben Affleck as an ex-con forced into robbing a casino at Christmas dressed as Santa Claus. Frankenheimer’s film makes the most of film’s [...]

December 19, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Nic Pizzolatto’s TRUE DETECTIVE – Season 2

Nic Pizzolatto had a tough job following up the masterful first season and the writer/producer could have pleased a lot of people if he’d simply replicated the formula and once again delivered a southern tinged murder mystery. Pizzolatto [...]

December 15, 2021

Behind The Scenes: George R.R. Martin & Peter Dinklage On The Set Of GAME OF THRONES

Writer/Producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss managed the near impossible when they brought George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series to the small screen back in 2011. Stunning production values and epic locations gave Game of [...]

September 20, 2021

Book Review: Gabriel Campisi’s THE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER’S GUIDE TO THE NEW HOLLYWOOD – SUCCESS IN THE ERA OF NETFLIX AND STREAMING VIDEO

The way in which we watch entertainment today is totally different than it was ten, or even five years ago. Streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max have made it easy for us to consume more film and television than ever before [...]

April 5, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Jared Leto On The Set Of Zack Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE

A truly epic comic book movie, which features a tremendous amount for fans to chew over, Zack Snyder’s Justice League is the film which should have hit screens back in 2017. This cut from Snyder has been freed-up from having to launch the [...]

March 20, 2021

Zack Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE Is Now A Global Event

Zack Snyder’s Justice League is going to go global. The DC Comics superhero team-up will be available worldwide in all markets day and date with the film when it makes its US debut on HBO Max on Thursday 18 March 2021. Snyder’s long [...]

February 20, 2021

Trailer: HBO’s Documentary Series ALLEN V. FARROW Is Going To Cause Serious Waves

Allen V. Farrow is going to cause serious waves when it arrives on HBO on 21 February 2021. The four-part documentary from filmmakers Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy is going to open old wounds and cause a lot of commotion. A social media [...]

February 9, 2021

Clive Barker Joins HBO’s HELLRAISER As Executive Producer

Author and filmmaker Clive Barker has joined HBO’s new Hellraiser series as Executive Producer. Barker of course created the Hellraiser franchise, writing the novel, The Hellbound Heart which was the basis for the first film in 1987 – [...]

October 31, 2020

They’re Back! First Teaser Trailer For Zack Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE

Well, it’s official – Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a reality. Here’s the first teaser for the Snyder Cut of the 2017 superhero team-up. Cut to the strains of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, this teaser looks [...]

August 24, 2020

Road To Hell: Halloween’s David Gordon Green Taking HELLRAISER To HBO

Horrormeister Clive Barker‘s Hellraiser continues to impress more than thirty years on. Barker’s own 1987 adaptation of his novella The Hellbound Heart offers-up a baroque gothic horror wrapped within the confines of a warped family [...]

April 28, 2020

Trailer For The Robert Downey Jr Produced PERRY MASON Reboot

This trailer for HBO’s reboot of Perry Mason looks very different to the original Raymond Burr series which aired from 1957 to 1966 and subsequent the TV movies in the ’80s and 90s. Matthew Rhys plays the brilliant defence lawyer in this [...]

April 18, 2020

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

Teaser Trailer For Damon Lindelof’s WATCHMEN

Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Tock Tock. I’m not 100% sure how Damon Lindelof’s HBO series fully connects to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal comic book Watchmen, but I’m there for the presence of Don Johnson and Jeremy Irons [...]

May 8, 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