melanie griffith Archives - Movies In Focus

Notebook Reviews: TWO MUCH

Fernando Trueba – 1996. Fernando Trueba’s Two Much is a fun romantic comedy with a great starring role from Antonio Banderas. Melanie Griffith and Daryl Hannah co-star in this energetic farce which sees Banderas caught-up in a lie with [...]

January 27, 2022

Brian De Palma – Master Of Suspense

The great Brian De Palma was born on 11 September 1940. He has always been a director that defies convention. He’s an outsider that managed to get into the Hollywood system and subvert it. In the early days his love of the thriller led to him [...]

September 11, 2021

Notebook Reviews: THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES

Brian De Palma – 1990 Movies In Focus has a pretty controversial take on this one: Brian De Palma‘s The Bonfire Of The Vanities is hugely underrated adaptation of Tom Wolfe‘s epic novel – and one of De Palma’s best [...]

March 17, 2021

Notebook Reviews: PACIFIC HEIGHTS

John Schlesinger – 1990 Pacific Heights is a gripping psychological thriller from director John Schlesinger. Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine are great as the young couple who buy a house and bring in tenants to help cover the bills. [...]

January 19, 2021

Remembering When Mickey Rourke And Don Johnson Were HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN

Simon Wincer’s Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man isn’t a very good film – but it is a fun one. The 1991 action film sees Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson team-up as branded bikers to take on Tom Sizemore and Daniel Baldwin’s [...]

July 21, 2020

Remembering The 1990 Thriller PACIFIC HEIGHTS Starring Matthew Modine, Melanie Griffith & Michael Keaton

John Schlesinger’s Pacific Heights is a wonderfully composed psychological thriller from 1990. It’s the type of film which was hugely popular in the 1990s, but has fallen by the wayside in recent years. It’s a great companion piece [...]

April 24, 2020

Tom Wolfe’s THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES Is Coming To Amazon Prime Video

Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities is an epic tome chronicling a diverse set of issues in 1980s New York. Sly, wry and filled with zing, Wolfe’s work is one of the great literary works of the 20th Century. The near 700 page novel (first [...]

October 15, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Antonio Banderas Stars In The Stylish Sci-Fi Thriller AUTOMATA

Automata is a stylish science fiction thriller set in 2044 when over 99% of the earth’s population has been wiped-out by the sun. Robots do the majority of the work on the scorched earth and they are set with 2 two important protocols: they cannot [...]

May 13, 2015

Johnson & Hunnam In 50 SHADES OF GREY; TWILIGHT With Less Ham & More Pork?

I don’t want to write about the 50 Shades of Grey movie casting – but I feel I must. Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunnam will play Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in the big screen adaptation of EL James’ novel. It’s a tome which has [...]

September 3, 2013