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Nicolas Cage Is TIGER KING’S Joe Exotic

The mighty Nicolas Cage has scored the role he was potentially born to play. Cage will play Joe Schreibvogel, a.k.a Joe Exotic, the subject of Netflix’s Tiger King in a a new eight-part series for Imagine Television. Based on Leif [...]

May 8, 2020

Trailer For The Russo Brothers Produced Netflix Actioner EXTRACTION Starring Chris Hemsworth

Everyone’s favourite Avenger, Chris Hemsworth is a charismatic actor and Extraction certainly looks like a movie that fits well within his wheelhouse. The action pic sees Hemsworth play Tyler Rake, a mercenary hired to rescue the kidnapped son [...]

April 8, 2020

COVID-19 Leads To A Streaming Explosion

The global pandemic which is COVID-19 means that the majority of countries are in lockdown and most people are confined to their homes under orders from the government. This had led to a massive explosion in online streaming as people look to while [...]

April 8, 2020

Netflix’s TIGER KING: MURDER, MAYHEM & MADNESS Shows That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Like many, Movies In Focus is locked-down and loaded, keeping a low profile and waiting for the Coronavirus to run its course so that normality (or what’s left of it) can resume. Netflix is obviously getting a good workout at the moment and [...]

March 31, 2020

Acting Legend Don Johnson Joins Jeremy Saulnier’s REBEL RIDGE

The mighty Don Johnson needs no introduction to readers of Movies In Focus. The Miami Vice/Nash Bridges legend delivers each time he’s on screen and most recently he did sterling work in Watchmen and Knives Out. Johnson has now been cast [...]

February 27, 2020

Movies In Focus At The 2020 EE BAFTA Film Awards And The Full Winners List

Sunday 2 February 2020 was the day when the film industry donned its finest (recycled) clothing before descending on London’s Royal Albert Hall for the 2020 EE British Academy Film Awards. Movies In Focus once again attended the event, [...]

February 3, 2020

Trailer: Anne Hathaway & Ben Affleck In THE LAST THING HE WANTED

It would appear that Netflix is really going to town on delivering the type of mid-budget, adult oriented thriller that Hollywood rarely makes anymore (see The Irishman, Triple Frontier etc). This time around it’s Anne Hathaway against Ben [...]

January 25, 2020

BAFTA 2020: Nominations For The EE British Academy Film Awards

It looks like Joker is no laughing matter. Todd Phillips’ Blockbusting DC Comics film leads the pack at the 2020 EE British Academy Film Awards with 11 nominations. Martin Scorsese’s Netflix produced drama The Irishman and Quentin [...]

January 7, 2020

First Full Trailer For Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss’ DRACULA Has Some Serious Bite

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one tale that can stand multiple interpretations. From F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu to Todd Browning’s Dracula through to Christopher Lee‘s iconic turn and beyond, it’s a character that can be [...]

December 14, 2019

The 2020 Golden Globes Full Nominations List

It’s easy to become cynical when you write about movies. You get to see the good, the bad and the ugly and sometimes that makes you jaded. However, there’s nothing like watching quality movies succeed and when you see the list of [...]

December 9, 2019

Harrison Ford Takes The Lead In New True-Life Murder Mystery Series THE STAIRCASE

Over the last several years there have been a lot of great true-life crime documentaries. One of the best of these is Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s The Staircase, which which followed the trial of novelist Michael Peterson, who was accused of [...]

November 23, 2019

Trailer: Netflix Gives Michael Bay All The Money In The World For 6 UNDERGROUND

Movies In Focus is one of those people who complained for years that Michael Bay needed to ditch the Transformers franchise and try something new. He’s finally done that with Netflix‘s uber-expensive 6 Underground. This trailer is as [...]

October 1, 2019

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