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Trailer: Nicolas Cage Gives Us The HISTORY OF SWEAR WORDS

Good old Nicolas Cage never fails to surprise or impress. The Academy Award-winning actor continues to deliver a hugely eclectic filmography – and now he’s giving us the most intriguing sounding docuseries of 2021. History of Swear Words [...]

December 23, 2020

You Can Quote Me On That!

Movies In Focus has been doing the whole movie review thing for well over a decade now and I’m always excited when I score a poster/DVD/blu-ray cover quote. It’s a validation of sorts and at the very least it shows that someone, [...]

December 22, 2020

Notebook Reviews: BRINGING OUT THE DEAD

Martin Scorsese – 1999 Martin Scorsese‘s Bringing Out The Dead is a bleak and grimy drama which can be difficult to watch at times. The cast do some great work with Nicolas Cage delivering under-the-radar performance and a stand-out [...]

November 23, 2020

KICK-ASS Still Kicks Ass 10 Years On

Movies In Focus recently caught Matthew Vaughn‘s Kick-Ass again for the first time in years. It’s hard to believe that it was released 10 years ago. Superhero films weren’t as dominant in 2010 as they are now and Vaughn’s [...]

October 3, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Paul Schrader’s DYING OF THE LIGHT

Paul Schrader’s best screenplays have always been about internal struggles and he returns to this theme again with Dying Of The Light. The 2014 film features Nicolas Cage’s best performance this decade, as Evan Lake, a terminally ill CIA agent [...]

September 30, 2020

UNCAGED: Time To Appreciate Nicolas Cage

The mighty Nicolas Cage isn’t the box office powerhouse that he was in the ’90s and early ’00s. The actor become more of a punchline in recent years, the whipping boy for film fans who now worship at the feet of spandex clad demigods. [...]

September 28, 2020

David O. Russell’s THREE KINGS

Three Kings is a Gulf War action-comedy which pretty much set the pattern for George Clooney‘s career over the next two decades. It takes a commercial premise and skews it as an off-beat and political bender. Hard to believe that this was [...]

September 19, 2020

Obituary: Director Joel Schumacher Dies Aged 80

The mighty Joel Schumacher has died at the age of 80. Having quietly battled cancer for a year, he finally succumbed to the disease. Movies In Focus has always been impressed by Schumacher’s visual flair and technique for storytelling. [...]

June 23, 2020

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

Notebook Reviews: TRAPPED IN PARADISE

George Gallo – 1994  Trapped In Paradise is an enjoyable enough Capra-esqe festive comedy from writer-director George Gallo. Nicolas Cage gives an oddly low-key performance as one of three criminals trapped in a small town during a snow storm [...]

April 11, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Joe Begos’ Hallucinogenic Horror BLISS

Bliss is a wonderfully crazy gonzo horror film from cult director Joe Begos. It’s a gritty piece of punk rock cinema, a hallucinogenic vampire film which isn’t afraid to go to weird places (very weird places). It’s dark, nasty and it packs one [...]

February 18, 2020

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