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Oscars 2022: The Full Academy Awards Winners List

The 94th Academy Awards took place on Sunday 27th March 2022. The event was pretty much over shadowed by Best Actor winner Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. If the night [...]

March 28, 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

Behind The Scenes: Cary Joji Fukunaga & Daniel Craig On The Set Of NO TIME TO DIE

In 2006 Daniel Craig first took on the role of James Bond in Casino Royale. A controversial choice at the time,many thought that the film would be a huge failure. However it went on to became a huge critical and commercial hit. Bond was back with [...]

October 8, 2021

Review: NO TIME TO DIE Is The Boldest Bond Yet

This review contains spoilers for No Time To Die. No Time To Die not only marks the 25th instalment in the James Bond franchise, but it also ends Daniel Craig‘s 15 year tenure as Bond and ensures that Craig’s 007 goes out on an [...]

September 30, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Darren Aronofsky’s MOTHER!

Few films have left Movies In Focus as perplexed and confused as Darren Aronosfky’s 2017 film, mother!. It’s a fever-dream, a collage of terror and a cacophony of nightmares. I’m not sure if it’s a good film, but it’s definitely one which [...]

May 15, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Daniel Craig & Judi Dench On The Set Of SKYFALL

What sets Skyfall apart from all the other Bond movies is the sheer amount of character development, not just for Craig’s Bond, but everyone else around him. Director Sam Mendes delves into more of Bond’s character here than the previous [...]

March 7, 2021

TRAILER & POSTER: Sally Potter’s THE ROADS NOT TAKEN Starring Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning & Salma Hayek

Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken opens on 11 September 2020 and it looks like it features yet another bravura performance from the mighty Javier Bardem. A time-shifting, plot shifting drama, this fits perfectly within Potter’s [...]

August 10, 2020

Remembering Universal Pictures’ Ill-Fated DARK UNIVERSE

2017 was a much simpler time. It was a time when Universal Pictures decided to follow the Marvel route and attempted to create a shared universe for the classic Universal Monsters. The studio scored an A-list cast: Johnny Depp as the Invisible [...]

June 7, 2020

Spice World The Movie: A Whole Host Of Images From Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE

The global shutdown caused by Coronavirus/COVID-19 means that there’s a real dearth of movie news out there. However, god bless Denis Villeneuve and the marketing peeps behind his forthcoming science fiction spectacle, Dune. They’ve [...]

April 14, 2020

Get A Look At Timothée Chalamet In DUNE

Here’s the first official look at Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune (courtesy of Vanity Fair). The film, based on the Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel is a huge task for the Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 [...]

April 13, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Darren Aronofsky’s MOTHER! Is Like A Baseball Bat To The Face

Few films have left Movies In Focus as perplexed and confused as Darren Aronosfky’s mother!. It’s a fever-dream, a collage of terror and a cacophony of nightmares. I’m not sure if it’s a good film, but it’s definitely one which plays with [...]

January 20, 2018

Paramount Pictures Supports Darren Aronofsky After The Failure Of MOTHER!

Despite some solid reviews, Darren Aronofsky‘s mother! grossed a poor $7.5 million from 2,368 locations in the US, but even more damning was the F grade Cinemascore – which shows the Jennifer Lawrence starrer isn’t resonating with [...]

September 18, 2017

Greetings! New Clip From Darren Aronofsky’s mother!

It’ll be interesting to see how Darren Aronofsky‘s mother! plays to general audiences. Will it be too arty for the mainstream? Is it a horror or a horror? We’ll find out on 15 September. Few people are making mainstream movies like [...]

August 31, 2017

Cracking New MOTHER! Poster

mother! or Mother! Only Darren Aronofsky knows for sure. But here’s a new poster for the Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem chiller. mother! hits screens on 15 September [...]

August 14, 2017

Trailer: Darren Aronofsky Embraces His Inner Roman Polanski With MOTHER!

It really looks like Darren Aronofsky is embracing his inner Roman Polanski for mother! (the shadow of Rosemary’s Baby looms large here) Aronofsky is always challenging expectations and you really don’t know what he’s going to [...]

August 8, 2017

Teaser Trailer For Darren Aronofsky’s MOTHER! Starring Jennifer Lawrence

Very little is known about Mother!, but the fact that it’s a Darren Aronofsky film means that it’s worth catching. This looks like an engaging chiller – throw in a cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem and Michelle [...]

July 31, 2017

Welcome To The DARK UNIVERSE

I have to admit that this is giving Movies In Focus a little tingle. I’ve been craving a reboot of the classic Universal Monsters since Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy hit screens back in 1999 and now I’m getting it – with a [...]

May 22, 2017

Davy Jones Is Calling: It’s A Pirate’s Life For Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney has a cameo in Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales/ Salazar’s Revenge – and there’s now a poster to prove it! Macca plays Jail Guard 2 in the Johnny Depp swashbuckler, which opens on 26 May 2017. All [...]

May 14, 2017

Dead Men Tell No Tales! Character Posters For PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: SALAZAR’S REVENGE

Pirates of the Caribbean 5 aka Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales aka Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge sails onto screens in May. That means marketing is really going to hit the high seas over the next month [...]

April 9, 2017

Mummy Impossible: First Full Trailer For Universal’s THE MUMMY Starring Tom Cruise

I don’t think anyone would have ever imagined that Tom Cruise would topline a reboot of Universal Pictures’ The Mummy. But he is – and it looks bloody fantastic. Russell Crowe is along for the ride, while Sofia Boutella plays the [...]

December 5, 2016

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