ocean’s 11

Apple Studios Scores Expensive George Clooney & Brad Pitt Thriller

Movies In Focus previously told you that Ocean’s 11 co-stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt were set to reteam for a new thriller from Spider-Man director Jon Watts. At the time Sony, Lionsgate, Annapurna, MGM, Universal, Warner Bros, Apple [...]

September 30, 2021

George Clooney & Brad Pitt Reteam For New Jon Watts Thriller

Ocean’s 11 co-stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt are set to reteam for a new thriller from writer/director Jon Watts (Spider-Man). Little is known about the plot other than it follows ‘two lone-wolf fixers who are assigned to the same [...]

September 25, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Steven Soderbergh’s LOGAN LUCKY

Steven Soderbergh is one of the finest directors to ever work in the Hollywood game. Films like Out Of Sight, Sex Lies And Video Tape, Traffic, Solaris, The Limey et al show that he’s up there with the likes of John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred [...]

July 7, 2021

Don Cheadle Says Steven Soderbergh Is ‘Thinking About’ OCEAN’S 14

The great Steven Soderbergh‘s Ocean’s 11 turns 20 in 2021. The film now seems like a quaint piece of filmmaking, but it scored $450 million at the worldwide box office and spawned two successful sequels (Ocean’s 12 and [...]

June 30, 2021

Review: Zack Snyder’s ARMY OF THE DEAD – A Stupid Movie With Stupid Characters Doing Stupid Things

Zack Snyder is probably the most divisive director of the century. Over the last 20 years, no filmmaker has faced the vitriol which has been targeted at Snyder or been embraced by the fervent adoration of their fanbase. It’s odd – [...]

May 23, 2021

Notebook Reviews: OCEAN’S 11

Steven Soderbergh – 2001 Wow! You really just can’t top this heist caper from the great Steven Soderbergh – and what a cast he’s assembled: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts, Elliot Gould and [...]

May 16, 2021

Review: Luke Goss & Val Kilmer Star In The Entertaining Thriller PAYDIRT

There’s a lot of fun to be had with writer/director Christian Sesma’s Paydirt. Headlined by Luke Goss and Val Kilmer, Sesma’s thriller plays like Ocean’s 11 filtered through a Quentin Tarantino prism. It’s not breaking any new ground, but [...]

August 4, 2020

The Con Is On: Trailer For The ALL-Star Female Focused OCEAN’S 8

Here we go, the first trailer for Ocean’s 8. It looks like you would expect – an all-star cast of gals pulling-off a classy heist. A companion piece to Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s 11/12/13, this looks solid – but who [...]

December 19, 2017

8 Is The New 11: First Poster For OCEAN’S 8

Sandra Bullock is the sister of George Clooney’s Danny Ocean in Ocean’s 8, the spin-off from Steven Soderbergh’s all-star comedy-heist franchise. Bullock is Debbie Ocean, Danny’s estranged sister and she’s getting in on the family business [...]

December 17, 2017

Blu-ray Review: Steven Soderbergh Delivers A Fun But Disappointing Heist Movie In LOGAN LUCKY

December 4, 2017

Soderbergh Is Back! Trailer For LOGAN LUCKY Starring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver & Daniel Craig

Steven Soderbergh has been a Movies In Focus favourite since the 1990s. A masterful director with a great cinematic touch, I regretted Soderbergh’s self-imposed ‘retirement’. However, it didn’t last long (four years) [...]

May 29, 2017

Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Trailer For THE HATTON GARDEN JOB

Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction. For example, the true life tale of a bunch of old geezers robbing a security vault in the middle of London over an Easter weekend sounded like the plot for a Brit crime flick. Now [...]

January 27, 2017

Get Ready For OCEAN’S 8

Steven Soderbergh‘s Ocean’s trilogy was a wonderfully expressed movie franchise starring a whole bunch of A-list actors. I love the idea of a female version – and director Gary Ross is creating a fantastic line-up that matches [...]

November 3, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Will Smith And Margot Robbie Inject Movie Star Cool Into Con Caper FOCUS

Slick, stylish, cool and a little soulless, Focus is an entertaining piece of old fashioned Hollywood moviemaking. Will Smith is the conman working the grift, while Margot Robbie is is protégée and sometime love interest who complicates things [...]

July 12, 2015

Robert Downey Jr. Should Save Movies And Not Help Kill Them

I like Robert Downey Jr. He’s a great actor with a tremendous screen presence and you have to admire how he pulled himself through his drug and alcohol troubles to become the highest paid actor on the planet. He’s made more money than he’ll [...]

May 2, 2015

DVD Review: The Artist’s Jean Dujardin Stars In ‘CA$H

Jean Dujardin is now best known around the world for starring in Michel Hazanavicius’ Oscar nominated silent film The Artist. However, the French star has had a successful career on his home soil, starring in a string of successful comedy films, [...]

February 24, 2012