john mctiernan

Get Ready For Hunting Season: Teaser For Predator Prequel PREY

20th Century Studios has announced that Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator prequel, Prey is coming to US screens via Hulu on 5 August 2002. The news comes alongside a 45 second teaser trailer which lets us know that the franchise is going in a very [...]

May 16, 2022

Bruce Willis Retires From Acting Because Of Health Issues

The family of Bruce Willis has announced that the 67-year-old star is “stepping away” from acting because of health issues. Willis has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, a condition which impacts cognitive abilities – it can affect [...]

March 31, 2022

Remembering The Great Alan Rickman

The great Alan Rickman made movies better. No matter the film, no matter the role, Rickman delivered on a level that only the best actors can. He was able to cover a multitude of colours in every performance and he could move from evil to charming [...]

January 14, 2022

Behind The Scenes: Jan de Bont, John McTiernan & Bruce Willis On The Set Of DIE HARD

When Die Hard was released in the summer of 1988 Bruce Willis was known primarily as a comedic television actor, and he only won the role of John McClane when it was turned down by Arnold Schwarzenegger (it is often erroneously believed to have [...]

December 3, 2021

Writer Steven E. de Souza Explains Why The First Two DIE HARD Films Are The Best

A few days ago, Movies In Focus tweeted that 1990’s Die Hard 2 (aka Die Hard 2: Die Harder) was the second best Die Hard movie after John McTiernan’s 1988 original. That tweet was seen by Steven E. de Souza, the [...]

October 10, 2021

Notebook Reviews: THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR

John McTiernan – 1999. Remakes are rarely as good the original, but John Mc Tiernan‘s remake of The Thomas Crown Affair certainly surpasses Norman Jewison‘s 1968 original. This 1999 remake of the Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway film hits [...]

October 3, 2021

Notebook Reviews: THE 13TH WARRIOR

John Mc Tiernan – 1999. John McTiernan‘s The 13th Warrior is not as bad as its troubled production would lead you to believe. This adaptation of Michael Crichton‘s novel, Eaters of the Dead is an entertaining Viking action film [...]

September 7, 2021

Podcast – Episode 8: Oscar Nominated Actor Graham Greene Talks About His Career & The Movie A DARK FOE

Graham Greene is an actor who has an illustrious career. The Canadian performer first broke into the public consciousness with his Academy Award nominated turn in Kevin Costner’s masterpiece, Dances With Wolves. He went on to have key roles in [...]

July 28, 2021

Yippee Ki-Yay! DIE HARD Turns 33 Years Old

Die Hard is a great example of the Hollywood studio system getting moviemaking right – the film is a perfect storm of story and talent coming together. It is hard to fathom that the action-thriller was such an unknown quantity when it was first [...]

July 16, 2021

Notebook Reviews: DIE HARD 2

Renny Harlin – 1990 Action maestro Renny Harlin delivers a brilliant follow-up to John McTiernan’s 1988 masterpiece. This 1990 release has first-rate action set pieces – which help make it a genre stand-out. Bruce Willis is once [...]

June 22, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Norman Jewison & James Caan On The Set Of ROLLERBALL

Sci-fi movies are everywhere now and it’s hard to believe that things were very different in the pre-Star Wars 1970s. The science fiction movies that were made were often dark tales filled with subtexts filled with social commentary. Norman [...]

June 19, 2021

Brosnan, Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan turned 68 years old on 16 May 2021. Suave, debonair, charismatic and a great actor, Pierce Brosnan has the perfect combination of what makes a true movie star. Brosnan spent the best part of the ’80s and early ’90s alternating [...]

May 16, 2021

Behind The Scenes: John Guillermin Directs Paul Newman & Steve McQueen On The Set Of THE TOWERING INFERNO

John Guillermin’s The Towering Inferno is one of the defining disaster movies of the 1970s. The Paul Newman/Steve McQueen led film is an epic piece of film-making and John McTiernan’s Die Hard owes quite a bit to Guillermin’s [...]

December 7, 2020

Top Christmas Movies: DIE HARD

Is Die Hard a Christmas film? You bet your ass it is. Bruce Willis has never been better and Alan Rickman is outstanding in John McTiernan’s flawless 1988 actioner. Great script and flawless direction make this the greatest action film ever made. [...]

December 7, 2020