j.k. simmons

BATGIRL Directors ‘Saddened & Shocked’ As Film Is Cancelled In Post-Production

Batgirl directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have released a statement stating that they are ‘shocked and saddened following the abrupt and shocking announcement that the almost complete DC Comics movie has been shelved for good by Warner [...]

August 3, 2022

BATGIRL Scrapped By Warner Bros – $90 Million Movie Now A Tax Write-Off

In a move which is virtually unprecedented, Warner Bros. has scrapped the release of its Batgirl movie – a film which has already been shot, partly edited and test screened. The film will not be shown in cinemas or HBO Max and instead [...]

August 3, 2022

Academy Awards 2022: A Full List Of Oscar Nominations

Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leads the charge at this year’s Academy Awards. The Netflix western scored 12 nominations including Best Director for Campion. Campion is now the first woman to have been nominated for best director [...]

February 10, 2022

First Official Look At Leslie Grace’s BATGIRL Costume

Movies In Focus‘ interest in Batgirl shot-up 100% when it was announced in December 2021 that Michael Keaton would be joining the cast as Bruce Wayne/Batman. I’m just not overly interested in comic book characters that aren’t [...]

January 15, 2022

Michael Keaton Is Back As Batman In BATGIRL Movie

It looks like Michael Keaton will be keeping on the Bat cowl for a little while longer. After a 30 year absence, Keaton has just completed filming a turn as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Andy Muschietti’s The Flash – and now he’s set to [...]

December 27, 2021

Monster Opening For SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Breaks Box Office Records

It’s been a while since Movies In Focus did any sort of deep-dive into box office analysis. That stuff doesn’t interest me like it used to, mainly because I no longer have a dog in the fight. In the good old days, you could follow actors [...]

December 20, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Marc Lawrence’s THE REWRITE

Director Marc Lawrence’s 2014 film, The Rewrite see Hugh Grant play an Oscar-winning screenwriter whose career is in a downward spiral. He takes a job teaching creative writing at an upstate New York university but he gets off to a shaky start [...]

June 8, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Producer Dana Goldberg On The Set Of TERMINATOR GENISYS

2015’s Terminator Genisys is the fifth entry in the Terminator franchise – and the second attempt at rebooting it following Terminator Salvation in 2009. Its lacklustre reception meant that yet another reboot was attempted in 2019 with [...]

June 5, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Zack Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE Is Epic In Scope

Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a film which shouldn’t exist – but here it is. For years it was a cinematic myth, an unfinished film that would never see the light of day and nothing but a future trivia quiz question for comics [...]

May 26, 2021

Tedious Teaser For THE TOMORROW WAR

This teaser trailer for The Tomorow War is only 30 seconds long and you know exactly how the movie is going to shake-out. More over-reaching slam-bam action and CGI. I find Chris Pratt‘s (on and off) screen persona tedious and I feel that [...]

May 1, 2021

Review: Zack Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE Is The Film We Should Have Had Years Ago!

March 15, 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

Henry Cavill’s Superman & Ezra Miller’s The Flash Race In This Behind The Scenes Image From JUSTICE LEAGUE

Justice League is fun in a comic book way, but it’s also an incredibly frustrating, disjointed movie. People constantly talk about ‘filmmaking by committee’, but Justice League is a movie that is so guilty of that charge that it [...]

August 27, 2020

Blu-ray Review: JUSTICE LEAGUE – Not As Bad As You Think But Not As Great As You Hope

Justice League hit the big screen with quite a muted response, which was a severe kick in the teeth for a film which was supposed to be the DC Comics Extended Universe answer to The Avengers. The $250 million+ budgeted film opened to a [...]

March 25, 2018

JUSTICE LEAGUE Hits Blu-ray And DVD In March – All The Details

Justice League hit the big screen in November 2017 to mixed reviews from critics (and that’s putting it lightly), but it fared a bit better with audiences, grossing $655 million worldwide – a solid number but a far cry from the billion [...]

January 19, 2018

Review: JUSTICE LEAGUE Is A Flawed But Entertaining Superhero Adventure

It’s fair to say that the DC Comics Extended Universe has had a rocky road on its way to the big screen. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Suicide Squad were both given a rough ride by critics, despite scoring solid box office numbers, while [...]

November 19, 2017