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John Travolta Is The ‘Teflon Don’ In The Trailer For GOTTI

John Travolta has wanted to play real-life Mafia Don, John Gotti for years. He finally got the chance, top-lining Kevin Connolly’s Gotti. The film hits VOD and the big scree on 15 December – and here’s the trailer for the flick, [...]

September 26, 2017

Go Mel! Full List Of Golden Globe Nominations

The nominations for the 74th Golden Globe Awards have been announced – and Mel Gibson‘s Hacksaw Ridge has a strong showing (seven nods, same as La La Land). That’s what I call a comeback. Go Mel! A whole host of Movies In Focus [...]

December 12, 2016

CLOSED Competition: Win John Travolta’s Revenge Thriller I AM WRATH On DVD

Movies In Focus was impressed by Chuck Russell’s revenge thriller, I Am Wrath starring John Travolta (read the review). Travolta is Stanley Hill, a family man with a dark past who springs to action when his wife (Rebecca De Mornay) is [...]

May 14, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Revenge Tale I AM WRATH Is John Travolta’s Taken

John Travolta gets his own Taken with I Am Wrath. Chuck Russell’s film is a hard-edged action thriller that keeps things simple over the course of its lean 90 minute running time. Travolta is Stanley Hill, a family man with a dark past who springs [...]

April 10, 2016

DVD Review: John Travolta Gets To Be Cool In CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES

Criminal Activities sees John Travolta return to the same type of criminal underworld that served him so well during his 1990s comeback with Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty. Actor Jackie Earle Haley makes his directorial debut with this Quentin [...]

February 29, 2016

DVD Review: John Travolta Pictures One Last Crime In Drama THE FORGER

The Forger is a low key crime drama with John Travolta as an art forger forced to do the infamous ‘one last job’ so that he can spend time with his terminally ill son. It’s a very well acted film that (ironically) may not be wholly original [...]

September 12, 2015

Obituary: Film Director Mike Nichols 1931 – 2014

Mike Nichols, the multi-award-winning film and stage director has died from a heart attack aged 83. The German born Nichols started his career in stand-up, where he partnered with Elaine May (write and direct), before making his directing debut with [...]

November 20, 2014

DVD Review: Robert DeNiro Waits To Face/Off Against John Travolta In KILLING SEASON

Killing Season sees Robert DeNiro and John Travolta team-up on screen for the first time. Director Mark Stephen Johnson (Daredevil/Ghost Rider) delivers an enjoyable enough thriller, and while the stars give it their all, things are a [...]

August 18, 2014

Billy Ray Serenades Scorsese With Some SINATRA

Writer Billy Ray (NOT of Cyrus fame) has been brought in to write the script for Martin Scorsese’s Frank Sinatra biopic. Scorsese has long been interested in bringing a Sinatra tale to the screen, originally planning a Rat Pack film that was set [...]

August 20, 2012

Weekend Box Office Lowdown: July 15, 2012

Ice Age: Continental Drift is set to top the box office over the weekend with an estimated $46 million take. That’s on a par with 2009’s Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs which scored $41 million, for a $196 million final total (the highest grosser [...]

July 15, 2012

Producer Don Carmody – Interview

The name of Don Carmody may not be a name that is familiar to most filmgoers; however, it is highly likely that you have seen at least one of his films. From Oscar winning hits like Chicago to computer game adaptations such as Silent Hill and [...]

March 7, 2012