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Get Ready For Hunting Season: Teaser For Predator Prequel PREY

20th Century Studios has announced that Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator prequel, Prey is coming to US screens via Hulu on 5 August 2002. The news comes alongside a 45 second teaser trailer which lets us know that the franchise is going in a very [...]

May 16, 2022

Remembering Shane Black’s KISS KISS BANG BANG Starring Robert Downy Jr & Val Kilmer

Famed screenwriter, Shane Black made his directorial debut in 2005 with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Black’s film, based on Brett Halliday’s novel, Bodies Are Where You Find Them is a near flawless modern noir and the script sizzles with [...]

December 9, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Jan de Bont, John McTiernan & Bruce Willis On The Set Of DIE HARD

When Die Hard was released in the summer of 1988 Bruce Willis was known primarily as a comedic television actor, and he only won the role of John McClane when it was turned down by Arnold Schwarzenegger (it is often erroneously believed to have [...]

December 3, 2021

Review: JIU JITSU Starring Nicolas Cage Is The Craziest Movie Of 2020

A lot of crazy things have happened in 2020, but the craziest in a cinematic sense has to be Jiu Jitsu starring the one and only Nicolas Cage. The Dimitri Logothetis directed film is martial arts/sci-fi/action hybrid which blends elements of [...]

December 30, 2020

New PREDATOR Movie From 10 Cloverfield Lane Director Dan Trachtenberg

Do we need a new Predator film? No. However, you can’t keep a good franchise down. News has broke that 20th Century Studios has hired 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg to dust-off the intergalactic dreadlocks and direct the fifth [...]

November 21, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Billy O’Brien’s SCINTILLA

Scintilla (also known as The Hybrid) shows once again that you don’t need a mega budget to deliver a captivating science fiction feature. Writer/director Billy O’Brien’s film may not break new ground in a narrative sense, but it works as a [...]

October 29, 2020

Trailer: JIU JITSU Sees Nicolas Cage Fight Aliens In Some Weird Predator-Style Action Movie

Movies In Focus has been around the block a few times, so it takes an awful lot leave me speechless – and boy, does this trailer for Nicolas Cage‘s latest movie, Jiu Jitsu leave me lost for words. It looks like some crazy Predator [...]

October 14, 2020

Trailer For Killer Lion Action Pic ROGUE

Rogue looks silly as hell, but I imagine there is serious fun to be hand in this killer lion action pic from director M.J. Bassett. It looks like The Ghost And The Darkness meets Predator – what’s not to like about that? Probably the [...]

July 22, 2020

Arnold Schwarzenegger & Stan Winston’s Genius Practical Effects On The Set Of THE TERMINATOR

Made for just $6.5 million, James Cameron’s The Terminator would go on to gross over $78 million when it was released in 1984. The film made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star and spawned a somewhat patchy franchise. Cameron’s film is a superb [...]

December 14, 2019

John McTiernan Is Back! Die Hard Director Set To Direct TAU CETI 4 Starring Uma Thurman

The mighty John Mc Tiernan will direct his first film since 2003’s Basic with Tau Ceti 4. Mc Tiernan wrote the script for the sci-actioner, which will star Uma Thurman and Travis Fimmel. The pic will be shopped at Cannes next week, but expect [...]

May 8, 2019

THE PREDATOR: Getting The Gang Together

A motley crew is defined as an assembly of individuals of various backgrounds, appearance, and character that come together for a single cause. Utilising this as the centrepiece of a narrative has been a hallmark of cinema for many years now, [...]

September 4, 2018

Second Trailer For Shane Black’s THE PREDATOR Is Better, But Still Not Great

I never thought that I wouldn’t be jazzed by a trailer for a Predator film starring Thomas Jane, written and directed by Shane Black. Sadly, that’s the case for the second time. In fairness, this second effort is much better than the [...]

June 26, 2018

Disappointing Teaser Trailer For Shane Black’s THE PREDATOR

Movies In Focus will be there for The Predator because it’s written and directed by Shane Black (and the addition of Thomas Jane to the cast) but this is a pretty unexciting trailer. 20th Century Fox is going to have to work a lot harder if [...]

May 10, 2018

He’s Back! John McTiernan Directs TOM CLANCY’S GHOST RECON ‘Red Dot’

It’s only a minute and a half long and it’s the trailer for a video game. But that doesn’t matter, this ‘Red Dot’ trailer for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon is the first thing John McTernan has directed since Basic in [...]

January 24, 2017

DVD Review: SCINTILLA Is An Enjoyable Hybrid Sci-Fi Movie

July 19, 2014