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Review: Tom Cruise Delivers Sky-High Entertainment With TOP GUN: MAVERICK

Without a doubt Top Gun: Maverick delivers one of the best mainstream Hollywood action films of the last several years. Forget your Avengers or Justice Leagues, Tom Cruise shows how to give audiences the type of entertainment that they’ve been [...]

November 18, 2022

Review: Jon Hamm Excels In The Comedy-Mystery CONFESS, FLETCH

Confess, Fletch is a fun, breezy, star-driven comedy-mystery with a magnificently charismatic turn from the mighty Jon Hamm. This adaptation of Gregory Mcdonald’s 1976 novel is a cool throwback movie – the type of film which was the [...]

September 17, 2022

Trailer & Poster: Jon Hamm Stars In CONFESS, FLETCH

Movies In Focus can’t wait to see Jon Hamm in Confess, Fletch. It looks like a movie which totally plays to my sensibilities. I’m a huge fan of Hamm since his Mad Men days and Fletch might just be another iconic role to sit [...]

August 26, 2022

The Genius Of Matthew Weiner’s MAD MEN

Created by Matthew Weiner, Mad Men became something of a cultural phenomenon when it aired for seven seasons between 2007 and 2015. Set in a New York advertising agency on Madison Avenue between 1960s and 1970, the time-frame gave the show [...]

January 21, 2022

Behind The Scenes: Chris Hemsworth & Dakota Johnson On The Set Of BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

The plot of Drew Goddard’s Bad Times At The El Royale seems complex on the surface, but when you peel back the layers (flashbacks, chapters etc) it’s a pretty basic yarn. However, it is a film where every actor brings their A-game. Jeff [...]

December 31, 2021

Trailer: Steven Soderbergh’s NO SUDDEN MOVE Starring Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, David Harbour, Ray Liotta, Jon Hamm & Brendan Fraser

Here’s the full trailer for Stephen Soderbergh latest film, No Sudden Move. Written by Ed Solomon, the film is a 1950s-set crime movie with an all-star cast. Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro and David Harbour, Ray Liotta, Jon Hamm, Brendan [...]

June 8, 2021

Teaser Trailer For Steven Soderbergh’s All-Star NO SUDDEN MOVE

The mighty Stephen Soderbergh shows no sign of slowing down. Hot on the heels of 2020’s Let Them All Talk comes No Sudden Move, anew crime movie from the Oscar-winning auteur. The 1950s set drama features yet another all-star cast including [...]

May 20, 2021

Putting Baby In The Corner: The Frustration Of BABY DRIVER

With a title which riffs on the Simon & Garfunkel song from their Bridge Over Troubled Water album, director Edgar Wright‘s 2017 film, Baby Driver is an energetic action-comedy/musical which is as entertaining as it is frustrating. Wright [...]

August 27, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Michael Almereyda’s Sci-Fi Drama MARJORIE PRIME

Marjorie Prime shows that science fiction films don’t need expensive special effects for exotic locations to make them interesting. Writer-director Michael Almereyda’s 2017 film (adapted from a play by Jordan Harrison) is an intimate character [...]

August 15, 2020

Fletch Lives! Jon Hamm To Star In FLETCH Reboot

In recent years Jon Hamm has failed to capitalise on his role as Don Draper in Mad Men. It’s as if Hollywood didn’t know what to do with him. Finally, he might just have the perfect part to play – Fletch. The character, created [...]

July 15, 2020

Trailer & Poster: It Looks Like TOP GUN: MAVERICK Will Take Your Breath Away

Topping Tony Scott‘s 1986 popcorn spectacular Top Gun was never going to be easy. However, it looks like Tom Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski are going to give it their best shot with Top Gun: Maverick. The new [...]

December 16, 2019

Highway To The Danger Zone: Trailer & Poster For TOP GUN: MAVERICK

We’ve been waiting over thirty years, but Tom Cruise is finally flying back into the danger zone. Cruise returns to the role of Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in Joseph Kosinski’s follow-up to the 1986 smash hit Top Gun. This new [...]

July 19, 2019

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences Has No Idea What Cinema Is (Updated)

Update: The Academy has now back-tracked the below decision and awards for all categories will be given out live when the show airs on 24 February. Here’s the official statement: ”The Academy has heard the feedback from its membership [...]

February 14, 2019

Blu-ray Review: BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE Is An Uneven But Well Made Neo-Noir

You can’t say that Drew Goddard did not put his all his effort into Bad Times At The El Royale. The writer-director has delivered a captivating neo-noir and while it’s a little uneven, it does deliver. This 1960s-set mystery is a good [...]

February 9, 2019

BAD TIMES Ahead

Any film with Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson and Chris Hemsworth hits the must watch list. Bad Times At The El Royale here we [...]

January 26, 2019

DVD Review: Comedy TAG Has A Game Cast But That’s About It

Based on a true story which became the Wall Street Journal article, It Takes Planning, Caution to Avoid Being It by Russell Adams, Tag stars Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress and Jake Johnson as a group of life-long friends who have [...]

November 6, 2018

Jon Hamm Is Too Good For TAG

Movies In Focus doesn’t really like comedy – but I do like Jon Hamm. However, I’m torn by Tag. This looks stupid (really stupid) – but I’ll always support the Hamm after Mad Men. He’s too good for this [...]

March 20, 2018

DVD Review: Sci-Fi Drama MARJORIE PRIME Is Powerful And Poignant

Marjorie Prime shows that science fiction films don’t need expensive special effects for exotic locations to make them interesting. Writer-director Michael Almereyda’s film (adapted from a play by Jordan Harrison) is an intimate character piece, [...]

January 27, 2018

Trailer: Jon Hamm And Rosamund Pike Go To BEIRUT

Jon Hamm in a political thriller directed by Brad Anderson and written by Tony Gilroy? You got me right there. This won’t be an easy sell to the popcorn munching masses, but it should find an audience – if it’s as good as it [...]

January 13, 2018

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: BABY DRIVER, CAGE DIVE, BELLE DU JOUR, CHANNEL ZERO & More

This time around we take a Journey To The Centre Of The Earth; discover a Resurrection Of Evil; Cage Dive gives a new meaning to going ‘down under’; Belle Du Jour is the order of the day; A Kind Of Murder is suspect in more ways than [...]

October 28, 2017

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