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Notebook Reviews: THE CABLE GUY

Ben Stiller – 1996. A comedy with a dark edge, Ben Stiller‘s The Cable Guy is a solid effort but it ultimately lacks spark. Matthew Broderick is good as the hapless customer who is terrorised by Jim Carrey‘s titular Cable Guy. [...]

August 17, 2024

Director Mike Nichols

Born in Berlin, Germany on 6 November 1931, Mike Nichols started his entertainment career in the 1950 as a standup comedian alongside partner Elaine May. He made his directing debut with 1966’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a drama [...]

November 6, 2021

Notebook Reviews: ADDICTED TO LOVE

Griffin Dunne – 1997 Addicted To Love is a so-so romantic comedy from actor turned director Griffin Dune. The premise is solid enough and the cast is good – Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Kelly Preston and Tchéky Karyo – but [...]

August 6, 2021

Notebook Reviews: ELECTION

Alexander Payne – 1999 Election is a solid black comedy from director Alexander Payne. The film features some great directorial touches and Matthew Broderick excels as the teacher with a grudge battling Reese Witherspoon‘s student. [...]

October 12, 2020

Dip The Wick With The Latest Clip From Warren Beatty’s RULES DON’T APPLY

Warren Beatty’s classy looking Rules Don’t Apply hits US screens this weekend. It doesn’t arrive in the UK until january 2017 – but this clip is a little something to keep us going. An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) [...]

November 23, 2016

Get On The Story And Understand The Comical Consequences Of RULES DON’T APPLY

Rules Don’t Apply might just be one of the most anticipated films in the history of Movies In Focus (I first started writing about it in June 2012). The Warren Beatty film hits the UK in January 2017 and the marketing is starting to hit in a big [...]

November 9, 2016

RULES DON’T APPLY When You Work With Warren Beatty

Have you ever wondered what it’s like working with Warren Beatty? Then check out this new Rules Don’t Apply featurette. Early word on this is good – and it’s still a highly anticipated release for Movies In Focus. Rules [...]

November 2, 2016

Warren Beatty Is Back In The Trailer For His Long Awaited Howard Hughes Pic RULES DON’T APPLY

Leave it to Warren Beatty to deliver a cracking trailer for his long gestating Howard Hughes movie, Rules Don’t Apply. Beatty’s Hughes isn’t the central focus here, instead it’s Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich’s young lovers who are [...]

July 16, 2016

Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES Reveal; Detailed Plot Description

Jeffery Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere has revealed that Warren Beatty’s untitled Howard Hughes movie will be research screened in LA at the Pasadena Arclight on Monday 18th April. That means we’ll be getting some reactions to the long gestating [...]

April 17, 2016

No Cannes Launch For Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES Movie; Distributor Found

Roger Friedman at Showbiz 411 seems to have his finger firmly on the pulse of Warren Beatty’s (as yet untitled) Howard Hughes movie. Friedman states that Beatty himself got in touch to scupper the recent rumours that his film would debut at the [...]

April 3, 2016

DVD Review: John Travolta Pictures One Last Crime In Drama THE FORGER

The Forger is a low key crime drama with John Travolta as an art forger forced to do the infamous ‘one last job’ so that he can spend time with his terminally ill son. It’s a very well acted film that (ironically) may not be wholly original [...]

September 12, 2015

There’s A New Image Of Lily Collins And Annette Bening – But Where’s Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES?

Warren Beatty wrapped shooting his mysterious (and still untitled) Howard Hughes movie over a year ago and since then he’s been honing the film in the editing room. Beatty is a notorious perfectionist and he’s likely working and reworking the [...]

August 22, 2015

Obituary: Film Director Mike Nichols 1931 – 2014

Mike Nichols, the multi-award-winning film and stage director has died from a heart attack aged 83. The German born Nichols started his career in stand-up, where he partnered with Elaine May (write and direct), before making his directing debut with [...]

November 20, 2014

Great News: Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES Movie Starts Production

I’ve been writing about movies for a long time and I have seen a lot of long gestating passion projects come and go. However, one of the most interesting films never to be made has always been Warren Beatty’s film about Howard Hughes. Beatty has [...]

March 2, 2014