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TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY Is 30 Years Old

For better or for worse, James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day helped usher in the age of CGI-fueled blockbusters when it was released back in 1991. The liquid metal effects of the T-1000 showed audiences a brave new cinematic world and [...]

July 4, 2021

James Cameron’s TERMINATOR

James Cameron’s 1984 breakthrough movie, The Terminator was a tight and lean scI-fi/thriller – a film that played much like a horror. Schwarzenegger’s unstoppable robotic force was a terrifying villain that couldn’t be reasoned with. It [...]

June 6, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Producer Dana Goldberg On The Set Of TERMINATOR GENISYS

2015’s Terminator Genisys is the fifth entry in the Terminator franchise – and the second attempt at rebooting it following Terminator Salvation in 2009. Its lacklustre reception meant that yet another reboot was attempted in 2019 with [...]

June 5, 2021

Trailer: Martin Campbell’s Assassin Thriller THE PROTÉGÉ Starring Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson & Michael Keaton

Director Martin Campbell is like an assassin – when he’s great he hits the bullseye (Goldeneye, The Mask Of Zorro) but when he misses, he fails to hit the target at all (Vertical Limit, Green Lantern). The Protégé looks like [...]

May 15, 2021

Trailer For The Robert Downey Jr Produced PERRY MASON Reboot

This trailer for HBO’s reboot of Perry Mason looks very different to the original Raymond Burr series which aired from 1957 to 1966 and subsequent the TV movies in the ’80s and 90s. Matthew Rhys plays the brilliant defence lawyer in this [...]

April 18, 2020

Blu-ray Review: James Cameron’s TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY Is Still Great

November 28, 2017

Behind The Scenes Of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY

Terminator 2: Judgment Day was a transformative event for Movies In Focus. James Cameron’s epic was a powerful experience and I’m glad to have seen it on the big screen way back in the summer of 1991. The film hits blu-ray on 4 December [...]

November 16, 2017

Review: TERMINATOR GENISYS Is Better Than It Should Be But Not As Good As It Could Be

Terminator Genisys is a decent enough reboot of the James Cameron originated franchise. It riffs on Cameron’s movies and brings enough intriguing ideas to make it worth your time but Hollywood’s mantra of bigger, louder, better means that this [...]

July 11, 2015

Top 10 Big-Screen Robots

Robots have been a part of cinema since its creation and still make for intriguing on-screen presences. With RoboCop set for release on 9 June 2014, Movies in Focus counts down the most memorable movie cyborgs to have graced our screens. Evil [...]

June 4, 2014