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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

Academy Awards 2022: A Full List Of Oscar Nominations

Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leads the charge at this year’s Academy Awards. The Netflix western scored 12 nominations including Best Director for Campion. Campion is now the first woman to have been nominated for best director [...]

February 10, 2022

Teaser Trailer: Jane Campion’s THE POWER OF THE DOG Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons & Kodi Smit-McPhee

This teaser trailer for Jane Campion‘s The Power Of The Dog is a well cut mood piece (shame about the film’s terrible title). It doesn’t give much of the plot away, but it does pull you in with intrigue – which is what a [...]

August 26, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Hossein Amini’s THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY

Beautifully shot, well acted and well written, 2014’s The Two Faces Of January is an enjoyable thriller, however you can’t help but feel that an important element is missing from the finished film. Writer/director Hossein Amini’s [...]

April 19, 2021

CLOSED Competition: Win Joe Dante’s SMALL SOLDIERS On DVD

* Director Joe Dante’s 1998 film Small Soldiers is being released by Fabulous Films on DVD on 14 September. To celebrate the release of the action-filled toy flick, Movies In Focus is giving 2 readers the opportunity to win film on DVD. [...]

September 5, 2020

The 2020 Golden Globes Full Nominations List

It’s easy to become cynical when you write about movies. You get to see the good, the bad and the ugly and sometimes that makes you jaded. However, there’s nothing like watching quality movies succeed and when you see the list of [...]

December 9, 2019

50 Shades Of Dornan: A Look At The Career Of Jamie Dornan

Based on an extraordinary true story, Anthropoid follows the daring plot by two Czechoslovakian agents to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and third in command of the Nazi forces behind Hitler [...]

January 26, 2017

Another HIDDEN FIGURES Clip As Film Beats Star Wars At The US Box Office

We’ve had enough Hidden Figures clips now – I’m done with it until I see it (where’s that Costner phoner people?). But it’s great that the film managed to score the top spot at the US box office, beating Rogue One: A [...]

January 11, 2017

Gimme More: UK Poster For HIDDEN FIGURES

Movies In Focus can’t say anything else about Hidden Figures – it looks great, it has a lot of buzz, but I need to see it. I’ll keep posting, but I’ve got nothing more to say. Gimme a junket, gimme a viewing, gimme me a [...]

November 24, 2016

New Clip From 1960s Space Drama HIDDEN FIGURES

Hidden Figures doesn’t hit the UK until February 2017, but I’m hearing that it delivers the goods and might be in the frame for some serious awards consideration. Here’s a new clip from the 1960s drama directed by Theodore Melfi [...]

November 21, 2016

Behind The Numbers Of HIDDEN FIGURES

Hidden Figures hits UK screens in February. It’ll get a US release before that – and it’s already getting some awards season buzz. Here’s a new featurette titled ‘Behind The Numbers’ which includes interviews [...]

October 24, 2016

International Trailer For Space Race Drama HIDDEN FIGURES

Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures opens in February, and it looks like a good old fashioned drama. The cast is good (Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali and Kevin Costner) and the premise [...]

September 22, 2016

Blu-ray Review: THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY Is Stylish But Lacking In Thrills

Beautifully shot, well acted and well written, The Two Faces Of January is an enjoyable thriller, however you can’t help but feel that an important element is missing from the finished film. Writer/director Hossein Amini’s adaptation of [...]

September 6, 2014