music

Go Gaga For These Clips From Bradley Cooper’s A STAR IS BORN

The early buzz is that Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born is going to be a huge critical and commercial hit. Cooper plays an ageing music star whose career is on the downturn, while Lady Gaga is his protege on the rise. This is Cooper’s [...]

September 15, 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

Ready Freddie Go: The Latest Trailer For BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

This latest trailer for Bryan Singer (and Dexter Fletcher)’s Queen/Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody lacks the punch of the first. This seems more like a musical-comedy than a solid rock biopic. I think that’s bad. Rami Malek [...]

July 17, 2018

Trailer: Who Knew Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga Would Be The Ones To Bring A STAR IS BORN To The Screen?

Hollywood has been trying to get a new version of A Star Is Born off the ground for decades. Somehow Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga managed to achieve what the likes of Tom Cruise, Clint Eastwood and Beyonce failed to do. Who knew? The buzz on this [...]

June 6, 2018

CLOSED Competition: Win Music Documentary SONG OF GRANITE On DVD

To celebrate the DVD release of director Pat Collins’ Song of Granite, Movies In Focus is giving away 2 copies of the film on DVD to lucky readers of the site SONG OF GRANITE revolves around the life of the great traditional Irish singer, [...]

March 13, 2018

Blu-ray Review: The Belfast Cowboy Rides Again With VAN MORRISON: IN CONCERT

Few musical artists have experienced the freedom which Van Morrison has enjoyed throughout his half-century career. As an artist and businessman, he’s played by his own rules since he sprung into the spotlight as part of Them in the 1960s. [...]

February 26, 2018

New Trailer & Poster: MAMMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN Doesn’t Hit The Right Notes

Nobody will defend 2008’s Mamma Mia like Movies In Focus. It’s an excellent jukebox musical that pulls on ABBA’s music and the classy cast give it their all. I was all set for Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, but this new trailer [...]

January 25, 2018

Rhapsody In Blue: Dexter Fletcher Takes Over Directing Duties On Freddie Mercury/Queen Biopic

Dexter Fletcher will take over as director on the Freddie Mercury/Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody. The Eddie The Eagle director replaces Bryan Singer, who was fired by 20th Century Fox due to his unprofessional behaviour (from what I hear, [...]

December 9, 2017

New Music Video For Brian Fallon’s FORGET ME NOT

Movies In Focus is a huge fan of New Jersey singer-songwriter Brian Fallon. I really dig his sound, his lyrics and his overall vibe. I can hear my record collection in his music. You’ll read a lot about the Springsteen comparisons, but [...]

December 5, 2017

A Heartbreaker Dies: Goodbye Tom Petty

Tom Petty was a Rock n’ Roll genius. Melodic, heartfelt and incredibly catchy, his music was tremendous. As a solo artist, the leader of Mudcrutch and The Heartbreakers or as a member of supergroup The Travelling Wilburys, Petty’s [...]

October 3, 2017

Danny Elfman To Batman The Sh*t Out Of JUSTICE LEAGUE

Movies In Focus was chuffed when Danny Elfman signed-on to score the music for Justice League once Joss whedon came onboard to complete the film. Elfman’s Batman score is a sublime thing and I’m excited to see him return to the world of [...]

September 30, 2017

John Carpenter Gets Behind The Camera To Direct New CHRISTINE Music Video

Nobody is a bigger fan of John Carpenter than Movies In Focus. Getting the chance to interview him a couple of years ago was a career high (read it here). Like many, I want Carpenter to make more movies – but I’ll settle for this music [...]

September 18, 2017

All Eyez On Me: The Best Music Biopics

Musicians are often some of the most interesting, unique, scrutinised and debated over figures in popular culture, which has led to a plethora of music biopics over the years. While many simply follow the same well trodden narratives that biopics [...]

June 21, 2017