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Review: Antonio Banderas Takes To The Seas In Shark Thriller ABOVE AND BELOW

Director Jesse V. Johnson delivers hugely entertaining B-movie thrills with his perfectly constructed Above And Below. The killer shark pic is great fun, offering up a great turn by Antonio Banderas. Banderas knows his assignment here and he pulls [...]

August 25, 2026

Artwork of shark's mouth for the film Chum.

Review: Shark Thriller CHUM Doesn’t Have The Chops

If you’re a reader of Movies In Focus, then you’ll know that a good shark thriller is very popular around these parts. In the least year we’ve had some exceptionally good ones – Kiah Roache-Turner’s World War II themed Beast Of War and [...]

August 5, 2026

Review: Kiah Roache-Turner’s WWII Shark Adventure BEAST OF WAR Has Serious Bite

Shark movies are ubiquitous—and two or three must be released every year. You can blame the success of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws for that. The thing is, I can’t get enough of them. I’ll watch the good, the bad, and the ugly. Getting a great [...]

October 8, 2025

Podcast – Episode 33: THE BLACK DEMON Director Adrian Grunberg

Get The Gringo and Rambo: Last Blood director, Adrian Grünberg joins the Movies In Focus podcast to talk about his new film,The Black Demon. The killer shark movie stars Josh Lucas as an oil company employee struggling to protect his family from [...]

April 28, 2023

Trailer & Poster: Josh Lucas Takes On A Megalodon In THE BLACK DEMON

Readers of Movies In Focus will know that I’m a big fan of killer shark movies. There’s obviously the obligatory Jaws, but there’s great fun to be had with Renny Harlin’s Deep Blue Sea and then there’s a plethora of [...]

March 24, 2023

Notebook Reviews: JAWS

Steven Spielberg – 1975. I don’t care what you say, but I believe that Jaws is Steven Spielberg’s greatest cinematic achievement. Spielberg’s film works on every level – as a horror movie, a drama and as an adventure [...]

October 14, 2021

Horror Movies To Watch This Halloween

October is when the nights get darker and more mysterious. It’s the month when people like to delve deep into the horror genre and watch a variety of scary movies as Halloween approaches. Movies In Focus has put together a list of [...]

October 2, 2021

Jaws Of Death! Trailer & Poster For Killer Shark Thriller GREAT WHITE

Movies In Focus loves a good killer shark film (see Steven Spielberg’s Jaws and Renny Harlin’s Deep Blue Sea) and that means I’m pretty excited about director Martin Wilson’s Great White. The film looks silly as hell [...]

June 16, 2021

Podcast – Episode 3: Actor/Director Ruben Pla Talks About ALIEN, JAWS & THE EXORCIST

Ruben Pla is an actor with over 65 credits on IMDB. A character actor who has been working for a long time, Pla has had a wide variety of roles in television and film, appearing in everything from shows like CSI: Miami to iconic genre movies like [...]

April 17, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: David Hackl’s INTO THE GRIZZLY MAZE

David Hackl’s Into The Grizzly Maze is a rollicking B-movie fun. The film sees Thomas Jane, James Marsden and Billy Bob Thornton face-off against one mean Grizzly Bear. Yes it’s Jaws in the woods – but how can that not make you want to [...]

December 13, 2020

Trailer: Simon West’s SKYFIRE Starring Jason Isaacs Erupts Onto Blu-ray, DVD & Digital This November

Director Simon West, the man behind such explosive action movies as Con Air, The Expendables 2 as well as the much under appreciated thriller The General’s Daughter has a new film on the horizon – volcano disaster movie Skyfire. The [...]

October 29, 2020

25 Great Horror Movies To Watch This October

October is the month where people like to delve deep into the horror genre and watch a variety of scary movies in the lead-up to Halloween. Movies In Focus has put together a list of 25 great horror movies. Some of them are classics films and others [...]

October 4, 2020

Review: GRIZZLY II: REVENGE Sees An Angry Bear Have George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen For Dinner!

Originally filmed in 1982, Grizzly II: Revenge hit a major stumbling block when one of the producers bailed during the first day of shooting on the film’s huge concert scenes in Hungary. Money issues saw the partially completed horror limp to the [...]

May 29, 2020

Posters To Make You Stay At Home

Right now everything is uncertain. There’s probably a hundred pressing questions running through your head that you need answers for. When will theatres reopen? What effect will social distancing have on going to the movies post-COVID-19? Will the [...]

April 17, 2020

The Best Scene In Steven Spielberg’s JAWS

Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws is near-perfect. The 1975 film is loaded from head to tail with great moments. The adaptation of Peter Benchley’s novel works on every level – as a horror movie, a drama and as an adventure picture. All the [...]

April 14, 2020

Something To Chew On: Behind The Scenes Of JAWS

Few movies pack a punch quite like Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. The adaptation of Peter Benchley’s novel is simply brilliant. Like I said in my review of the film, Jaws ‘works on every level, as a horror movie, a drama and as an [...]

March 12, 2019

Review: They Made A Pig’s Ear Out Of Killer Swine Movie BOAR

It would have been very easy to say that Chris Sun’s Aussie horror film Boar was…something of a bore. I won’t go for such a simple pun-fuelled insult, but I will say that Sun has made a right pig’s ear out of this outback creature [...]

February 23, 2019

The Cinematic History Of Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest and most influential directors of our time, his CV spanning an incredible array of iconic and unforgettable films such as Jaws, Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List to name but a few. To celebrate the 25th [...]

February 20, 2019

DVD Review: Nicolas Cage Steers U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE Through Choppy Waters

Put the Nicolas Cage jokes away. He’s the best thing about U.S.S. Indianapolis: Men of Courage, a solid (albeit disappointing) old fashioned war movie. This Mario Van Peebles directed drama is the type of thing that Audie Murphy might have banged [...]

December 31, 2016

Movies In Focus’ Top 20 Horror Films

It’s very difficult to distill something into a list of ‘bests’. However, sometimes it’s good to take stock of something and evaluate the quality, trying to understand what it should or shouldn’t be. I’ve been writing about films for a [...]

October 30, 2016

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