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Teaser Trailer For Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER

The very first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer has arrived – and it very much fits into the director’s oeuvre. It’s precise, cool and a little clinical. This gives little away, but when the film is a year [...]

July 28, 2022

Oscars 2022: The Full Academy Awards Winners List

The 94th Academy Awards took place on Sunday 27th March 2022. The event was pretty much over shadowed by Best Actor winner Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. If the night [...]

March 28, 2022

BAFTA: The Winners At The 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards

Hosted by Rebel Wilson, the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards took place on Sunday 13 March 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall. It was something of a disappointing show – Wilson failed to connect as a host and quite a few of the winners failed [...]

March 14, 2022

Bring Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST Home This April

A huge hit with critics and audiences alike, Kenneth Branagh‘s Belfast is a semi-autobiographical tale about growing up in the city as the violence of ‘the troubles’ spread across Northern Ireland in the late 1960s. Written and [...]

March 7, 2022

Irish Academy Awards: The 2022 IFTA Nominations

Belfast and An Cailín Ciúin lead the nominations for the 2022 Irish Academy Awards. Both films have scored 10 nods each, while Who We Love, Swan Song and You Are Not My Mother have 6 nominations. Break-out hit, Deadly Cuts was next having [...]

February 22, 2022

Watch The First 6 Minutes Of Kenneth Branagh’s Brilliant BELFAST

Opening with a sumptuous montage of modern day Belfast, set to the strains of Van Morrison’s song Down To Joy, Kenneth Branagh’s regular cinematographer, Haris Zambarloukos, switches to luscious monochrome as we fall back into the [...]

February 10, 2022

BAFTA 2022: Nominations For The EE British Academy Film Awards

Dune is leading an incredibly diverse set of nominations at the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards. The Power of the Dog managed seven nominations, while Belfast scored six nominations. Movies In Focus is thrilled that Kenneth Branagh’s [...]

February 3, 2022

Review: Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST Is Heartfelt And Emotionally Powerful

A wondrously nostalgic look at his childhood, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is a heartfelt and emotionally powerful piece of cinema. Branagh has crafted a film where whimsy and realism sit side-by-side so the viewer can visit a Belfast which is as [...]

January 24, 2022

Kevin Costner – The Last Of The Hollywood Cowboys

Born on the 18 January, 1955, Kevin Costner was an avid film fan who up in California. Fascinated by epic westerns such as Red River and How the West Was Won, he dreamed of being cowboy (a dream that would be fulfilled many years later). Following [...]

January 18, 2022

Behind the Scenes: Sidney Lumet & The Epic Cast Of Agatha Christie’s MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

The great Agatha Christie is one of best-selling novelists of all time, and the characters of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple have gone on to join the pantheon of iconic literary characters. In the 1970s and 1980s, these characters were brought to [...]

September 15, 2021

Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST

Movies In Focus lived in Belfast for six years before moving to England. I’ve recently moved back near the city – and it’s a place which I have a strong emotional attachment to. It’s a wonderful city, a vibrant city and a [...]

September 3, 2021

Review: Christopher Nolan’s TENET Is A Flawed Cinematic Wonder

Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is a film which can be enjoyed, but it’s highly likely that you won’t really understand it. It takes a lot of big ideas – and a lot of big moviemaking techniques to ultimately deliver a film which [...]

April 2, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Kenneth Branagh Directs Kevin Costner On The Set Of JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT

Before John Krasinski took on the role, Chris Pine followed in the footsteps of Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck and played Tom Clancy’s hero in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Kenneth Branagh’s 2014 film rebooted the franchise, ditching [...]

December 14, 2020

This Is Not A Review: Tentative TENET Thoughts

Movies In Focus finally saw Christopher Nolan‘s Tenet. Like many, it was my first time in the cinema for a long time – and the way things are going it’s going to be the last visit for another while. This isn’t really a review [...]

November 1, 2020

Notebook Reviews: WILD WILD WEST

Barry Sonnenfeld – 1999 Director Barry Sonnefeld‘s Wild Wild Wild West is much better than the reviews make out. Will Smith and Kevin Kline are on fine form, although the latter is under-used. Kenneth Branagh and Salma Hayek offer-up [...]

October 31, 2020

Christopher Nolan’s Swiss Watch

As a director, Christopher Nolan has had a pretty impressive cinematic run: Following (1998) Memento (2000) Insomnia (2002) Batman Begins (2005) The Prestige (2006) The Dark Knight (2008) Inception (2010) The Dark Knight Rises (2012), [...]

September 6, 2020

Hercule Poirot Is Back In The First Trailer For Kenneth Branagh’s DEATH ON THE NILE

Movies In Focus had a good time with Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 thriller Murder On The Orient Express. The all-star Agatha Christie adaptation grossed an impressive $352 million on a $55 million budget and a sequel was quickly given the green [...]

August 20, 2020

IMAX Info, Artwork & Release Dates For Christopher Nolan’s TENET

After what seems like a million delays because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Christopher Nolan’s long awaited Tenet is finally coming to IMAX cinemas in the UK on August 26! Whoop, Whoop! Select engagements of Nolan’s sci-fi [...]

July 29, 2020

Roll On Nolan! Warner Bros Pulls Christopher Nolan’s TENET From Release Schedule

Christoper Nolan’s Tenet has long been seen as the great hope of the summer movie going season. The movie that would get audiences back into the cinema after the coronavirus pandemic. That hope is no more. After being pushed back again and [...]

July 21, 2020

When WILD WILD WEST Almost Derailed Will Smith’s Career

Wicki- Wicki- Wild Wild West. Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s Wild Wild West was seen as the sure fire hit of the summer of 1999 (well, alongside Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace). Will Smith, July 4th Weekend and a bucket load of CGI. The [...]

July 4, 2020

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