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BAFTA: The Winners At The 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards

Hosted by Rebel Wilson, the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards took place on Sunday 13 March 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall. It was something of a disappointing show – Wilson failed to connect as a host and quite a few of the winners failed [...]

March 14, 2022

Academy Awards 2022: A Full List Of Oscar Nominations

Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leads the charge at this year’s Academy Awards. The Netflix western scored 12 nominations including Best Director for Campion. Campion is now the first woman to have been nominated for best director [...]

February 10, 2022

BAFTA 2022: Nominations For The EE British Academy Film Awards

Dune is leading an incredibly diverse set of nominations at the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards. The Power of the Dog managed seven nominations, while Belfast scored six nominations. Movies In Focus is thrilled that Kenneth Branagh’s [...]

February 3, 2022

Trailer & Poster: Paul Thomas Anderson’s LICORICE PIZZA

There’s certainly a lot to unpack in this first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson‘s latest feature, Licorice Pizza. Set in the San Fernando Valley in 1973, the film stars Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman as Alana Kane and Gary Valentine, [...]

September 27, 2021

Notebook Reviews: MAGNOLIA

Paul Thomas Anderson – 1999 Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Magnolia is a modern movie masterpiece. This is a unique and interesting piece of cinema which delivers in every way. It’s long – but the story unfolds in [...]

August 7, 2021

MAGNOLIA Is Paul Thomas Anderson’s Masterpiece

In the humble opinion of Movies In Focus, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia is one of the great films of the last twenty-odd years. Anderson’s epic L.A. tale features an excellent ensemble cast featuring a never better Tom Cruise, Julianne [...]

August 10, 2020

Say Goodbye To Hollywood: Poster For Daniel Day-Lewis’ Final Film PHANTOM THREAD

Daniel Day-Lewis will act no more. The double Oscar-winner is calling it quits following the release of Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Phantom Thread (acting takes too much out of him, apparently). You could say that he’s ‘calling it a [...]

December 2, 2017

Trailer: Daniel Day-Lewis Stars In Paul Thomas Anderson’s PHANTOM THREAD

Movies In Focus has been in the Paul Thomas Anderson camp since 1999’s Magnolia (one of the greatest films of all time). Phantom Thread sees PTA reunite with Daniel Day Lewis (after There Will Be Blood) and it looks like a well composed [...]

October 23, 2017

Business Lessons for Young Filmmakers

It’s never been easier to shoot your movie. Rapid advances in technology have made low-cost filming options more accessible than ever before. If you have an idea, the ability to bring it to life is at your fingertips – indeed, we’ve already [...]

September 8, 2016

Check Out Four Clips From Paul Thomas Anderson’s INHERENT VICE

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice hits the UK on 30 January and it looks to be a great convergence of everything the director loves – the ‘70s, Robert Altman and offbeat humour. The adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel has a starry [...]

January 10, 2015

Paul Thomas Anderson Channels Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye In This INHERENT VICE Trailer

Paul Thomas Anderson is channelling his mentor Robert Altman in this trailer for Inherent Vice. This LA-set detective yarn starring Joaquin Phoenix seems to be riffing on Altman’s The Long Goodbye – and that’s no bad thing. Anderson [...]

December 13, 2014

Get Teased With The Trailer And Poster For Paul Thomas Anderson’s INHERENT VICE

The talented Paul Thomas Anderson returns with his seventh feature, Inherent Vice. The Master star Joaquin Phoenix reunites with Anderson to play a ’70s detective in the black comedy which is based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel. [...]

November 17, 2014