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The New Director For SUICIDE SQUAD 2 Means Only One Thing: Room For Liam Neeson

Forget Mel Gibson – it looks like Jaume Collet-Serra will be replacing David Ayer as the director of Suicide Squad 2. The Spanish-born Collet-Serra doesn’t really float the Movies In Focus boat. He’s directed the sub-par Liam Neeson [...]

July 12, 2017

Roger Donaldson Interview Part Two: The Bounty, Conan, Bond, Cocktail & Working With Movie Stars

This second part of Movies In Focus‘ interview with director Roger Donaldson to talk about his documentary McLaren, looks at his impressive career behind the camera (read part one). We discuss such diverse films as The Bounty, No Way Out, [...]

May 31, 2017

The SILENCE Poster Gives The Hard Sell

Silence won’t be an easy sell to the masses. However, I doubt Martin Scorsese cares about box office for this one – this is one for art, not commerce. This poster doesn’t scream fun, but it’s in-line with the mood of the [...]

December 1, 2016

New Trailer For Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE Starring Andrew Garfield & Liam Neeson

I don’t know what I was expecting from Martin Scorsese‘s Silence – but it wasn’t this. This is a well cut and scored trailer that makes the film look epic, bombastic, stirring. This isn’t crime film Scorsese, this is [...]

November 23, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Revenge Tale I AM WRATH Is John Travolta’s Taken

John Travolta gets his own Taken with I Am Wrath. Chuck Russell’s film is a hard-edged action thriller that keeps things simple over the course of its lean 90 minute running time. Travolta is Stanley Hill, a family man with a dark past who springs [...]

April 10, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Seth MacFarlane’s TED 2 Is An Over-Stuffed Comedy Sequel

Ted 2 travels down well-worn path of many other comedy sequels and fails to recapture the magic of its predecessor. Many of the technical elements that made the first Seth MacFarlane movie a hit are present, but this is an unfocused comedy that [...]

November 24, 2015

Irish Politics Hits The Big Screen With THE JOURNEY And THE RISING

Irish politics seems to be very popular with filmmakers at the minute. Two new films, tackling two very different aspects of the Irish political scene are now in development. Nick Hamm’s The Journey is a fictional account of the relationship [...]

July 4, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Sean Penn Misses The Target With THE GUNMAN

Sean Penn is an intense actor but you’d think he’d lighten up in his first foray into the action genre. However, he never cracks a smile in this well made but rather dour actioner. Taken director Pierre Morel once again takes a dramatic actor [...]

June 27, 2015

Mel Gibson Is Seriously Jacked In These Images From BLOOD FATHER

It looks like Mel Gibson took his role in director Jean-François Richet’s action-thriller Blood Father very seriously. Gibson is in great shape in these images which first appeared online following the Berlin film festival. Not bad for a man [...]

March 14, 2015

Taken By Liam Neeson? Then Enjoy This Trailer For RUN ALL NIGHT

Fans of Liam Neeson’s particular set of action skills will get a kick out of this trailer for Run All Night. The thriller marks Neeson’s third teaming with Jaume Collet-Serra, who directed the Irish star in Unknown and Non-Stop. Those films [...]

January 10, 2015

Visit The ‘Rabbit Hole’ With Liam Neeson In This New TAKEN 3 Clip

Liam Neeson‘s Bryan Mills hits screens for the last time this month in Taken 3. Nobody gets taken this time – Neeson’s character is on the run, blamed for the his wife (Famke Janssen). Expect shooting and action galore when Taken 3 [...]

January 1, 2015

TAKEN 3: Learn Liam Neeson’s 12 Skills Of Christmas And Watch The ‘Bryan Mills Briefing’ Featurette

Taken 3 opens on 8 January – and that means there’s plenty of time to get in the mood by watching Liam Neeson’s Bryan Mills do his thing. Watch his ‘briefing’ featurette and learn his ’12 Skills of Christmas’. Ho Ho Ho. Liam Neeson [...]

December 19, 2014

Liam Neeson Says ‘Good Luck’ In TAKEN 3 Poster And Clip

Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills in Taken 3 (or Tak3n as the marketing will let you know). The Luc Besson produced actioner gets 2015 off to a bang (it opens on 8 January), enough to dust-off any cobwebs you may have after Christmas. Say what you [...]

December 12, 2014