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Blu-ray Review: J-P Valkeapää’s Darkly Comic DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS

Writer and and director J-P Valkeapää’s Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is a darkly comic look at life, love and S&M. It follows an emotionally detached surgeon named Juha (Pekka Strang) who gets caught-up in a twisted relationship with [...]

May 19, 2021

The CINEMAGIC FILM FESTIVAL Goes Virtual For 2020

Many, many years ago Movies In Focus volunteered at the brilliant and iconic Cinemagic International Film Festival. This means that the Belfast based festival has a special place in my heart. Now, Cinemagic is going virtual for its 31st [...]

September 15, 2020

You Need To Watch Mark Kermode’s THE FEAR OF GOD: 25 YEARS OF THE EXORCIST

Mark Kermode isn’t just one of the UK’s great film critics, but he’s also the leading authority on William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. In fact, he literally wrote the book on it. His 1998 BBC documentary, The Fear of God: 25 [...]

November 2, 2019

Competition: Win The Acclaimed LOCAL HERO On Blu-ray

Bill Forsyth’s acclaimed classic Local Hero hit blu-ray on Monday 16 September with a commentary by the mighty Mark Kermode. Movies In Focus is giving 3 lucky readers the chance to win a copy on blu-ray. The synopsis: Mac (Peter Riegert) is [...]

September 17, 2019

Album Review: The Dodge Brothers’ DRIVE TRAIN Will Take You On A Musical Journey

You’re walking down an unknown street on a hot, humid night. You see the distant neon sign of a bar radiate in the stance. As you walk closer you hear the energetic rhythm of music coming from behind the doors of this mysterious saloon. You open [...]

September 17, 2018

Book Review: Mark Kermode’s HOW DOES IT FEEL? A LIFE OF MUSICAL MISADVENTURES Is All About The Double Bass

He’s best known for being the UK’s leading bequiffed film journalist, but Mark Kermode also has a passion for music which is equal to his wealth of film knowledge. Kermode’s new memoir How Does It Feel? A Life Of Musical Misadventures looks [...]

September 10, 2018

Blu-ray Review: William Peter Blatty’s Mind Boggling THE NINTH CONFIGURATION

The Ninth Configuration defies categorisation and expectation. William Peter Blatty’s film is a smorgasbord of tonal shifts and bizarre characters collected within a tapestry of theological arguments and investigations into insanity. You’ll come [...]

April 24, 2016