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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

Remembering Matthew Weiner’s MAD MEN

Are you looking for something to watch during the Coronavirus/COVID-19 shutdown? Why did give Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men a go? Mad Men became a cultural phenomenon when it aired for seven seasons between 2007 and 2015. Set in a New York [...]

April 16, 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