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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

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

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

BAFTA: Nominees Announced For The 2022 EE Rising Star Award

The 2020 EE Rising Star Award nominees have been announced and Ariana DeBose, Harris Dickinson, Lashana Lynch, Millicent Simmonds and Kodi Smit-McPhee are up for the chance to win the award which is decided by a public vote and awarded at the [...]

February 1, 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: John Maclean’s SLOW WEST

Director John Maclean’s 2015 western, Slow West isn’t your standard ‘oater’. This is a quirky offbeat tale which is as funny as it is heartbreaking. Michael Fassbender is Silas, an outlaw who takes Kodi Smit-McPhee’s Jay under his wing so [...]

May 16, 2021

Trailer & Poster For Sci-Fi Adventure 2067 Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee & Ryan Kwanten

Movies In Focus is getting serious hints of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys from this trailer for Australian science fiction adventure, 2067. It won’t be in the same league as those classic films, but [...]

September 11, 2020

Melancholy Movie Marvels

Cinema has the ability to cast a spell over its audience, to keep our eyes firmly gripped to the screen and not want to even blink for fear of missing something special. What is even stranger is when that is the case despite being transported to a [...]

May 2, 2017

Business As Usual For New X-MEN APOCALYPSE Trailer

X-Men: Apocalypse hits screens in May – and here’s the latest trailer for Bryan Singer’s mutant action sequel. This looks like business as usual – but I can’t feel there’s something missing. We’ve seen this [...]

March 17, 2016

X-MEN APOCALYPSE Poster Destroys The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

I’m not sold on this poster for X-Men: Apocalypse. You can just visualise the different character posters which make this thing up. Modern day movie marketing fails to excite in any way. I’m rooting for this movie – I really [...]

March 8, 2016

X Gonna Give It To Ya! The Stakes Are Higher In The Trailer For Bryan Singer’s X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

Way back in 2000, Bryan Singer‘s X-Men came along and effectively kick-started the superhero genre. Sure, Batman and Superman had been on the big screen but nobody had ever imagined that comics could be a viable movie commodity. Over the [...]

December 12, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Michael Fassbender Impresses Once Again In SLOW WEST

Michael Fassbender doesn’t like to take the easy path and get huge paychecks by starring in soulless hollywood fare. Instead the actor wishes to tackle a whole host of different roles and if one of those happens to be a comic book movie of a video [...]

November 5, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Who Are The Young Ones In The Post Apocalyptic BAD LAND: ROAD TO FURY?

Bad Land: Road To Fury (Young Ones was the original title) is a neo-western from writer-director Jake Paltrow. It’s a solid dystopian sci-fi drama with a lot of good disparate ideas and strong performances (particularly from Michael Shannon). [...]

May 23, 2015

Ride The Trail With Michael Fassbender’s Western SLOW WEST

The summer can be an exhausting time at the cinema. The wham, bam of special effects blockbusters filling the multiplex can be deafening when you just want to take things slow. That’s why director John Mclean’s Slow West seems so tantalising. It [...]

May 13, 2015

See Nightcrawler In X-MEN: APOCALYPSE; The End Of X-Men Movies As We Know Them?

Bryan Singer has unveiled the first look at Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler in X-Men: Apocalypse. Much like the recent Archangel image release, this sees a new actor slip into the mutant role. Alan Cumming played Nightcrawler in 2003’s X2. [...]

April 29, 2015