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Top Christmas Movies: BATMAN RETURNS

Tim Burton’s 1992 caped crusader sequel is probably the best Batman flick ever made. A German expressionist film with an $80 million budget, this dark tale of the Dark Knight is helped by its gloriously grim festive setting. Brilliant. Burton [...]

December 3, 2020

The Bat, The Cat & The Director: Tim Burton Directs Michael Keaton & Michelle Pfeiffer On The Set Of BATMAN RETURNS

Movies In Focus would argue that 1992’s Batman Returns is the best Batman movie. It may or may not be the case, but it’s a film with strong visuals and sense of tone. Michael Keaton returned as Batman, Danny DeVito and Michelle [...]

November 3, 2020

Say Hello To My Little Friend! Al Pacino & Brian De Palma On The Set Of SCARFACE

Switching booze for cocaine and transposing the action from Chicago to Miami, Scarface updates the Howard Hawks/Howard Hughes gangster movie from 1932 and delivers an iconic piece of cinema which has now surpassed the original in terms of legacy. [...]

August 30, 2020

Remembering Tim Burton’s BATMAN RETURNS

After the success of Batman in 1989, Tim Burton was given carte blanche for this sequel, and he delivered the most bizarre Hollywood blockbuster ever made– an $80 million German Expressionist summer action movie. Michael Keaton once again returned [...]

June 21, 2020

Tim Burton’s BATMAN

In 1988 director Tim Burton was working on his second feature, Beetlejuice, at Warner Bros, when the director was offered a Batman film. For the first time in a decade, the project gathered real momentum. Bringing along his Beetlejuice star Michael [...]

April 11, 2020

Notebook Reviews: TEQUILA SUNRISE

Robert Towne – 1988 Tequila Sunrise is a sizzling first-rate thriller from the great writer/director Robert Towne. This 1988 film is slick and enjoyable with a top tier cast (Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer) who all [...]

April 6, 2020

Notebook Reviews: WHAT LIES BENEATH

Robert Zemeckis – 2000 Boy, does What Lies Beneath work. Zemeckis has crafted a fine supernatural thriller, with great performances from Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. The pair play to their strengths as Zemeckis riffs on the work of [...]

March 26, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE

“Say hello to my little friend!” The general belief is that remakes are a very bad thing. Yes, sometimes that is true, but other times that is Scarface. Written by Oliver Stone and directed by Brian De Palma, this remake of the the [...]

November 4, 2019

Trailer & Poster: Things Are About To Get Big In ANT- MAN AND THE WASP

Forget The Avengers and their Infinity War – Movies In Focus is looking forward to Ant-Man And The Wasp. It’s the follow-up to Marvel’s finest superhero movie pic over the last decade (except maybe Iron Man 3). Paul Rudd is once [...]

May 1, 2018

Good Things Come In Small Packages: ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Teaser Trailer

Movies In Focus continuously talks about suffering from superhero fatigue – and that’s true. However, Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man was a fresh, fun entry into the Marvel cannon that was aided by strong work from a game cast: Paul Rudd, [...]

January 30, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Darren Aronofsky’s MOTHER! Is Like A Baseball Bat To The Face

Few films have left Movies In Focus as perplexed and confused as Darren Aronosfky’s mother!. It’s a fever-dream, a collage of terror and a cacophony of nightmares. I’m not sure if it’s a good film, but it’s definitely one which plays with [...]

January 20, 2018

Movember Is Here! ‘I Know Your Moustache’ Clip For MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

Here’s Kenneth Branagh and Daisy Ridley shooting the breeze about facial hair and geography in this new clip (titled ‘I know Your Moustache’) in Murder On The Orient Express. The synopsis: What starts out as a lavish train ride [...]

November 2, 2017

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