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Review: Jon Hamm Excels In The Comedy-Mystery CONFESS, FLETCH

Confess, Fletch is a fun, breezy, star-driven comedy-mystery with a magnificently charismatic turn from the mighty Jon Hamm. This adaptation of Gregory Mcdonald’s 1976 novel is a cool throwback movie – the type of film which was the [...]

September 17, 2022

Trailer & Poster: Jon Hamm Stars In CONFESS, FLETCH

Movies In Focus can’t wait to see Jon Hamm in Confess, Fletch. It looks like a movie which totally plays to my sensibilities. I’m a huge fan of Hamm since his Mad Men days and Fletch might just be another iconic role to sit [...]

August 26, 2022

Blu-ray Review: Ryan Gosling Takes The Hot Seat In Second Sight Films’ Release Of Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE

Based on James Sallis’ novel of the same name, Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 thriller, Drive sees Ryan Gosling play a character only known as Driver, a stuntman by day and getaway driver at night, whose relationship with single parent Carey [...]

June 10, 2022

The Genius Of Matthew Weiner’s MAD MEN

Created by Matthew Weiner, Mad Men became something of a cultural phenomenon when it aired for seven seasons between 2007 and 2015. Set in a New York advertising agency on Madison Avenue between 1960s and 1970, the time-frame gave the show [...]

January 21, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Andrew Niccol’s GOOD KILL

Imagine Top Gun without the schoolboy antics – and the flying. That’s what you get with Good Kill. That’s not to say that Andrew Niccol‘s 2014 drama is boring (it’s not), it’s just that 21st Century aviation has changed to such an [...]

June 6, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Douglas Sirk’s THE TARNISHED ANGELS

Director Douglas Sirk is mainly known for his bright melodramas from the 1950s, with The Tarnished Angels he keeps the drama but ditches the colour for this strong Depression era film. Rock Hudson is Burke Devlin, a reporter who becomes fascinated [...]

October 6, 2020

Putting Baby In The Corner: The Frustration Of BABY DRIVER

With a title which riffs on the Simon & Garfunkel song from their Bridge Over Troubled Water album, director Edgar Wright‘s 2017 film, Baby Driver is an energetic action-comedy/musical which is as entertaining as it is frustrating. Wright [...]

August 27, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Michael Almereyda’s Sci-Fi Drama MARJORIE PRIME

Marjorie Prime shows that science fiction films don’t need expensive special effects for exotic locations to make them interesting. Writer-director Michael Almereyda’s 2017 film (adapted from a play by Jordan Harrison) is an intimate character [...]

August 15, 2020

Fletch Lives! Jon Hamm To Star In FLETCH Reboot

In recent years Jon Hamm has failed to capitalise on his role as Don Draper in Mad Men. It’s as if Hollywood didn’t know what to do with him. Finally, he might just have the perfect part to play – Fletch. The character, created [...]

July 15, 2020

Everybody’s Russian In Matthew Weiner’s THE ROMANOFFS

Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner’s The Romanoffs is made up of eight separate stories about people who all believe they are descendants of the Russian royal family. This looks quirky – and you just know that it’s going to be [...]

August 14, 2018

Jon Hamm Is Too Good For TAG

Movies In Focus doesn’t really like comedy – but I do like Jon Hamm. However, I’m torn by Tag. This looks stupid (really stupid) – but I’ll always support the Hamm after Mad Men. He’s too good for this [...]

March 20, 2018

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: BABY DRIVER, CAGE DIVE, BELLE DU JOUR, CHANNEL ZERO & More

This time around we take a Journey To The Centre Of The Earth; discover a Resurrection Of Evil; Cage Dive gives a new meaning to going ‘down under’; Belle Du Jour is the order of the day; A Kind Of Murder is suspect in more ways than [...]

October 28, 2017

Blu-ray Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s THE YOUNG POPE Is A Career Highlight For Jude Law

The Young Pope is a Machiavellian drama set within the confines of a modern-day Vatican. Paolo Sorrentino’s ten-part HBO series features Jude Law as Lenny Belardo (aka Pope Pius XIII), a young American cardinal who achieves the highest position [...]

January 7, 2017

Where Did This Come From? New Clip From KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES

I’ve been having trouble Keeping Up With The Joneses . This new comedy starring the impressive coupling of Mad Men‘s Jon Hamm and Wonder Woman Gal Gadot as a super spy couple infiltrating suburbia totally passed me by. How did that [...]

September 30, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Martin Scorsese And Mick Jagger Give Us The Disappointing VINYL

We’re living in the new golden age of television, a time that has seen so much rich and detailed long-form storytelling. On a narrative level, television (and all its modern equivalents) has surpassed many feature films and a lot of big screen [...]

June 12, 2016

LETHAL WEAPON: Clayne Crawford Is The New Mel Gibson

Clayne Crawford is the new Martin Riggs. Crawford has been cast as the lead in the TV reboot of Lethal Weapon, taking on the role made famous by Mel Gibson in Dick Donner’s seminal action franchise. Movies In Focus is against the idea of a Lethal [...]

March 12, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Ethan Hawke Takes To The Skies In Drone Drama GOOD KILL

Imagine Top Gun without the schoolboy antics – and the flying. That’s what you get with Good Kill. That’s not to say that Andrew Niccol‘s film is boring (it’s not), it’s just that 21st Century aviation has changed to such an extent [...]

August 22, 2015

New Mad Men Style Poster For Steven Spielberg’s BRIDGE OF SPIES

1960s-set spy movie Bridge of Spies has been keeping a low profile. That’s odd for a movie directed by Steven Spielberg, written by the Coens and starring Tom Hanks. Having said that – this ‘60s style movie poster is pretty neat. It has [...]

July 27, 2015

Book Review: TASCHEN’s FAVOURITE TV SHOWS – THE TOP SHOWS OF THE LAST 25 YEARS

Television has become as important as cinema. Long form storytelling is now a powerful way to tell sprawling narratives and recent times have seen a rise in high quality shows, many of which surpass the writing of what’s playing on the big [...]

July 12, 2015

Woody Allen Unhappy With Amazon Deal, The Avengers And Other Assorted Woody Wonders

Woody Allen is a man who likes routine. The native New Yorker makes a film every year at his own pace (his latest Irrational Man opens soon) and he seems happy and content to do this for as long as he can. What he doesn’t appear to be happy with [...]

May 15, 2015

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