quentin tarantino

Trailer: John Travolta Is THE FANATIC

Movies In Focus has been a fan of John Travolta since he had his big comeback following Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction back in 1994. Sure. he’s starred in a lot of questionable movies since then, but I always enjoy a Travolta [...]

July 27, 2019

Trailer: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Has My Attention

Movies In Focus is old enough to remember how Quentin Tarantino totally changed the face of cinema with his gutsy style of writing and directing in the 1990s. It was great to be around when Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown exploded onto [...]

March 23, 2019

Imagine This: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Pics

Quentin Tarantino’s One Upon A Time In Hollywood is one of the must-see movies of 2019. The Charles Manson/Sharon Tate pic has an epic cast Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino (and others) and an intriguing premise. This [...]

January 26, 2019

Review: US AND THEM Does Home Invasion Tarantino-style

Writer-Director Joe Martin’s Us And Them is a class war, social commentary filtered through a post-Quentin Tarantino cinematic world. The politics might be 21st Century, but at times it sounds as if most of the dialogue was ripped from a word [...]

October 18, 2018

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

First Look At Margot Robbie As Sharon Tate In Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

The first official image of Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood has been released. It looks like Robbie dressed in 1960s garb. But does she really look like Tate? That’s debatable. But [...]

August 6, 2018

First Look At Brad Pitt And Leonardo DiCaprio In ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

Quentin Tarantino’s next (and apparently penultimate) film has started shooting – and the first official image from Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has dropped. The photograph (shared by Leonardo DiCaprio on Instagram) shows Brad Pitt And [...]

June 29, 2018

Review: Nicolas Cage & Willem Dafoe Star In Paul Schrader’s Darkly Comic DOG EAT DOG

Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog is a sort of ‘90s throwback, a post-Tarantino crime drama toplined by Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe. It’s not exactly Reservoir Dogs, but these guys have serious talent and that shines through in this adaptation of [...]

November 16, 2016

DVD Review: John Travolta Gets To Be Cool In CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES

Criminal Activities sees John Travolta return to the same type of criminal underworld that served him so well during his 1990s comeback with Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty. Actor Jackie Earle Haley makes his directorial debut with this Quentin [...]

February 29, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Robert Mitchum Takes The Lead In Crime Drama THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE

The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973) is the type of ‘70s movie that perfectly sums up the decade on a cinematic level. Robert Mitchum plays the titular Eddie Coyle, an ageing low level crook caught-up in a Boston gun-running racket. Eddie is eager to [...]

February 7, 2016

Yeeha! New Poster For Kurt Russell’s BONE TOMAHAWK

The majority of people will be aware that Kurt Russell is starring in Quentin Tarantino’s western The Hateful Eight. However, serious Russell fans are more excited by the actor’s other western Bone Tomahawk. The film premieres soon at Fantastic [...]

September 9, 2015

The First Trailer For Quentin Tarantino’s THE HATEFUL EIGHT – It Looks Good

Okay, okay. I’ve had my reservations about Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight but I have to admit that this trailer does a lot for getting me on side. It looks like a major improvement of Django Unchained and I hope Tarantino manages [...]

August 13, 2015

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