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Best Actor Win Gives Michael Keaton Awards Heat For SPOTLIGHT

The New York Film Critics Circle has awarded Michael Keaton with the Best Actor Award for Spotlight. Could he be on track for a successful Oscar campaign? Saoirse Ronan won Best Actress (Brooklyn), Kristen Stewart scored Best Actress (Clouds of [...]

December 2, 2015

Sparse New Teaser Poster For Alejandro González Iñárritu’s THE REVENANT

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s powerful looking The Revenant has scored itself a new poster. This is as sparse as the film looks – but it’s a great looking teaser that doesn’t fall into the old photpshop trap .That may come in the [...]

October 24, 2015

More Plot And More Tom Hardy In The Second Trailer For THE REVENANT

The first trailer for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant was a powerful and visceral affair – but this second piece digs deep into the plot and shows more of Tom Hardy as the man who leaves Leonardo DiCaprio’s Hugh Glass for [...]

September 29, 2015

Is Alejandro González Iñárritu’s THE REVENANT With Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hardy The Film Of Year?

Alejandro González Iñárritu blew minds last year with Birdman and he’s about to do it again with The Revenant. This revenge tale stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Lukas Haas, Domhnall Gleeson and I’m sure it’s going to [...]

July 18, 2015

Sony: Hacking, Leaks, Jolie, Fincher, SPIDER-MAN, SPECTRE, THE INTERVIEW And North Korea

The Sony hacking is unprecedented. No Hollywood studio (or large corporation for that matter) has ever been exposed in such a way. Private emails, film plans and sensitive personal information have all been leaked. It has become a feeding frenzy for [...]

December 13, 2014

DVD Review: THE WOODY ALLEN COLLECTION Features Eight Movies And One Woody

Few writers or directors have a work ethic like Woody Allen. The writer/director/actor consistently delivers a new film every year, something which is an impressive feat for anyone – but even more so now that he’s 78 years old. It’s the [...]

July 6, 2014

Alec Baldwin Joins Cast Of Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES Movie

Alec Baldwin has just done a two-day stint on the set of Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes movie. Little is known about Beatty’s long gestating biopic, other than the interesting cast (Baldwin joins Martin Sheen, Matthew Broderick, Annette Bening, [...]

May 10, 2014

Review: Baz Luhrmann’s THE GREAT GATSBY Is A Failure

I went into Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby with great trepidation. As a fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, I was worried that Luhrmann’s style would clash with the world of Fitzgerald’s tale. It should be no shock to say that it does. The [...]

March 22, 2014

Oscars 2014: The Winners List

There were no major surprises at the 2014 Academy Awards – everything went as predicted, with the lion’s share of awards going to 12 Years A Slave, The Dallas Buyers Club (Matthew McConaughey is on one heck of a roll) and Gravity. The Wolf Of [...]

March 3, 2014

Movies In Focus Goes To The 2014 EE BAFTA Awards And The Full Winners List

The glitz, the glamour, the Baftas. Movies In Focus was once again on the red carpet for the 2014 EE Bafta Film Awards. The evening was much sunnier and warmer than last year’s event which saw the stars (and the less glamorous journalists) [...]

February 17, 2014

Acting: Ben Affleck Against Justin Timberlake In RUNNER RUNNER

Let’s face it – any excitement that has been built-up for Runner Runner is because of Ben Affleck’s role in the movie. The last few years have seen Affleck go from something of a cultural punch-line to critically lauded director to Batman. [...]

September 21, 2013

Jack Nicholson To Retire? Say It Ain’t So

US gossip site, Radar is stating that Jack Nicholson (76) is following in the footsteps of Sean Connery and Gene Hackman by retiring. The screen legend is apparently finding it difficult memorising lines, therefore deciding to bow out gracefully, [...]

September 5, 2013

Weekend Box Office Lowdown: 27th May 2013

Fast & Furious 6 exploded in its debut, grossing a Diesel-fuelled $98 million during its first three days at the US box office. That’s up on the $86 million that Fast Five grossed on its debut back in 2011. That film topped out at $209 million [...]

May 27, 2013

New DJANGO UNCHAINED Poster: And Don Johnson As Big Daddy

Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson…and Don Johnson. That’s the ticket bought right there. Don Johnson is the man, and it is good to see him getting the love on the latest [...]

November 12, 2012

Hugh Jackman & Jake Gyllenhaal Take PRISONERS

It feels like the film Prisoners has been in development for decades – although it’s only been a few years. However, in this time everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio to Christian Bale by way of Mark Wahlberg has been attached to the project and then [...]

September 26, 2012

Vanity Is Fair For Paramount Pictures

The latest issue of Vanity Fair has a fantastic image celebrating Paramount Pictures 100th anniversary. The images below get bigger if you click on them, but Vanity Fair has a pretty nifty zoom option so that you can get up-close and personal with [...]

June 13, 2012

Gemma Arterton Joins Affleck & Timberlake In RUNNER RUNNER

Former Bond girl Gemma Arterton will join Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake in Runner Runner. According to Variety: “Timberlake plays a Princeton student cheated out of his tuition money playing online poker who ends up the right-hand man of the [...]

June 2, 2012

Is Nicolas Winding Refn A BUTTON MAN?

Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn has entered talks to direct Button Man, an adaptation of Button Man: The Killing Game, the violent 2000AD comic strip by John Wagner and Arthur Ranson. The film, based at DreamWorks, was written by Hilary Seitz [...]

June 1, 2012

DVD Review: MARLEY AND ME – Is It Just A Dog’s Dinner Of A Movie?

Before I begin this review in full, I must give a disclaimer: I’m not a dog person. It’s not that I don’t like them – it’s just that I don’t want one around my house. That goes for any animal really, so dog lovers shouldn’t feel [...]

April 8, 2012

Rise Of TITANIC – Mega-Grossing Film Comes Back In 3D

Titanic was a phenomenon when it was released in 1997. James Cameron’s film became the highest grossing film of all time (before it was beaten by Avatar), grossing $600 million at the US box office and another $1.2 billion elsewhere around the [...]

March 8, 2012

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