music

Have A Listen To Billie Eilish’s NO TIME TO DIE Theme Song

Movies In Focus hadn’t heard of Billie Eilish until the news dropped that she’d be co-writing and singing the theme song to No Time To Die (I’m old, leave me alone). Then I heard her sing and I was pretty certain I could imagine [...]

February 14, 2020

Billie Eilish To Sing The NO TIME TO DIE Title Song; Hans Zimmer Will Score The Music

18 year old Billie Eilish will sing the title song to No Time to Die, the theme to the 25th James Bond film. Eilish is the youngest artist in the James Bond franchise’s 58 year history to write and record a Bond theme song. She was just 3 [...]

January 14, 2020

Blu-ray Review: The Bruce Springsteen Inspired BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Is A Feelgood Flick With A Cracking Collection Of Tunes

Bruce Springsteen’s music is steeped in Americana. It’s a blue collar look into the US, past and present, joining the dots from the country’s Old West to the post-Obama Trump administration. Therefore, it’s very interesting to discover that [...]

December 18, 2019

Blu-ray Review: ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE Is Fun, Energetic And Well Worth Your Time

Like turkey and ham, Christmas and the horror genre are now a winning festive combination. While a lot of these film tend to look at the darker side of the holiday season, Anna And The Apocalypse fully embraces fun, delivering a a fun and fully [...]

November 17, 2019

ELVIS UNLEASHED

Elvis Presley was (is) possibly the greatest musical artist of all time. You could argue that he helped make popular what it is today and that he defined what being a teenager is. His vocals were second to none and he had charisma which surpasses [...]

September 14, 2019

Competition: Win THE DOORS Special Edition On Blu-ray

Oliver Stone’s cult music biopic The Doors (1991) hit Special Edition (UHD + 2 Blu-ray and “When You’re Strange” Blu-ray) on 22nd July 2019. To celebrate the release, Movies In Focus is giving away a Special Edition copy! In 1991, [...]

July 26, 2019

Review: MARIANNE AND LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE Is Melodic And Melancholic

Nick Broomfield’s Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is an epic poem dedicated to Marianne Ihlen and the great Leonard Cohen. The latter was a struggling writer who would become one of the 20th century’s greatest singer-songwriters, while [...]

July 24, 2019

ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY BY MARTIN SCORSESE – This Looks Like A Music Documentary!

Dylan. Scorsese. Netflix. This is a match made in music and movie lovers heaven. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese looks like the real deal – a rich, textured music documentary. If anyone can do Bob Dylan and his [...]

June 4, 2019

Review: Music Documentary ECHO IN THE CANYON Is Crafted Like A Classic Hit Single

A wonderfully textured look at a very special time in music history, Andrew Slater’s Echo In The Canyon is an exceptional journey into the music scene in and around LA’s Laurel Canyon in the the mid-to-late 1960s. It’s a story told [...]

May 25, 2019

Interview: Director Tom Jones On ASBURY PARK: RIOT, REDEMPTION, ROCK ‘N ROLL

Director Tom Jones’ documentary, Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock ‘n’ Roll is a fascinating tale of how the seaside town made famous by Bruce Springsteen‘s debut album was ripped apart by riots and rebuilt though the healing [...]

May 21, 2019

Review: ASBURY PARK: RIOT, REDEMPTION, ROCK ‘N ROLL

A postcard of a seaside town, the cover of Bruce Springsteen’s debut album Greetings From Asbury Park might look like a tacky memento of a long forgotten summer holiday, but it is reminder of how the New Jersey town impacted the singer-songwriter, [...]

May 4, 2019

Greetings! Trailer For ASBURY PARK: RIOT, REDEMPTION, ROCK N ROLL Featuring Bruce Springsteen

Serious music fans will not want to miss Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock n Roll, the story of the New Jersey city Asbury Park told through the prism of race relations and music. The city was immortalised in Bruce Springsteen’s 1973 debut [...]

April 27, 2019

Don’t Do It! Tom Hanks To Play Colonel Tom Parker In Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Pic

We can all agree that Tom Hanks is a great actor and he’ll probably turn in an impressive performance as the villainous Colonel Tom Parker in a movie about Elvis Presley. Parker was the man who made Elvis a star, but he was also a machiavelian [...]

March 30, 2019

Peter Tork Member Of The Monkees Dies

On 29 February 2012, a week-old Movies In Focus published news announcing the death of The Monkees singer Davy Jones. Now almost exactly 7 years later I’m reporting that his bandmate Peter Tork has also died. 77 year old Tork was the bassist [...]

February 21, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Great Performances From Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga Make A STAR IS BORN Worth Watching

Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born is the third remake of the David O. Selznick produced 1937 romance and while it’s a handsomely put together and well acted piece, it relies too much on coincidence and contrivance. Cooper’s film has more in [...]

February 12, 2019

Get Back: Peter Jackson To Make Documentary About THE BEATLES Album Let It Be

Fifty years to the day that The Beatles played their legendary last live gig on the roof of the Apple Corps building in Saville Row comes news that Peter Jackson will make a film based around the shooting of the band’s Let It Be. The [...]

January 30, 2019

Born To Run: Trailer For Netflix’s SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY

It didn’t take a psychic to guess that Springsteen on Broadway would be a huge success. But Bruce Springsteen‘s one man show was even more successful than even the wildest predictions would have imagined. Tickets were scarce – [...]

November 27, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Martin Scorsese Joins Forces With The Band For Musical Masterpiece THE LAST WALTZ

Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz opens with the declaration that ‘This film should be played loud!’. And it really should. Scorsese’s film charting The Band’s farewell concert at San Francisco’s Winterland [...]

November 7, 2018

Review: ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE Is A Christmas-Horror-Teen-Musical-Comedy That Works

As a Christmas-zombie-musical-teen-comedy, the multi-genre straddling Anna And The Apocalypse could have gone either way (with the odds on totally disastrous). However, director John McPhail has managed to overcome these odds to deliver a charming [...]

October 14, 2018

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

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