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Amazon Set To Buy MGM For $8.45 Billion

It’s been speculated for quite some time, but now it’s official – Amazon is set to buy the famed film studio, Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) for $8.45 Billion. MGM is a big purchase by Amazon, and it will give the company a major [...]

May 26, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Mark Hartley’s ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films is a documentary that charts the rise and fall of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’ Cannon film company. Mark Hartley’s film digs deep, showing how the Israeli cousins started making films [...]

December 15, 2020

Trailer For Stand-up Comedy THE OPENING ACT

We all know that doing stand-up comedy is hard. Very hard. The difficulty of doing the gig is the crux The Opening Act. Produced by Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley, The Opening Act looks like a stand-up version of Sylvester [...]

September 18, 2020

It’s A Long Road: Sylvester Stallone Takes A Break On The Set Of FIRST BLOOD

First Blood introduced cinema audiences to John Rambo for the first time and the face of cinema was changed. An adaptation of David Morrell’s tense novel, Ted Kotcheff’s 1982 film was a cinematic gut punch, a energetic adventure tale with a [...]

August 5, 2020

It’s Creed Versus Drago In The New Trailer For CREED II

The new trailer for Steven Caple Jr’s Creed II packs a punch. It’s Creed Vs Drago 2.0 and Balboa Vs Drago 1.2. You’ll get bang for you buck in and out of the ring once this hits on 30 November. I’m loving how Sylvester [...]

September 26, 2018

Trailer: Michael B. Jordan Is Back In The Ring For CREED II

Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed has loyalty inside his DNA, apparently. That’s the reason why he’s going to face Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu) in the ring in Creed II. Drago senior (Dolph Lundgren) was the man who killed [...]

June 20, 2018

Flying High: CREED II Poster Drops

Ryan Coogler’s Creed bagged great reviews and scored $109 million at the US box office – making it the fourth most successful film in the seven-part Rocky franchise (unadjusted). Coogler isn’t returning for the sequel (he was a [...]

June 19, 2018

Sylvester Stallone Gears Up For THE EXPENDABLES 4 & RAMBO 5

Long-time readers of Movies In Focus will know that I have a lot of love for old-school action flicks (hey, I grew-up in the ’80s and ’90s). I’ve been particularly taken by The Expendables movies – and I’m thrilled that [...]

May 22, 2018

Oscars 2016: Full Winners List; Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Wins Best Actor

The awards season reached its climax with the 88th Academy Awards – and it was a night that saw the gold shared amongst a variety of films. The Revenant, Spotlight, The Big Short, The Danish Girl, Bridge of Spies and Room won the top nods, [...]

February 29, 2016

Will The CREED Trailer Help With Good Rocky’s Revival?

I think we can all say that Creed isn’t going to be Rocky. If Stallone’s magnum opus with a ‘70s singer-songwriter then Ryan Coogler’s film is some heavy RnB. This is a movie for its time. Michael B. Jordan seems committed to the role, but [...]

July 2, 2015

Review: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS Must Be Seen To Be Believed

May 10, 2015

DVD Review: Michael B. Jordan In Ryan Coogler’s FRUITVALE STATION

Ryan Coogler makes a powerful film debut with Fruitvale Station, the true-life story of Oscar Grant, the 22 year old who was shot by the police at the eponymous station on New Year’s Day in 2009. At the centre of the film is Michael B. Jordan, who [...]

October 9, 2014

Blu-ray Review: ESCAPE PLAN Is Filled With Male Pattern Badness

Action fans have waited decades for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone to team-up, sure they shared the screen in The Expendables movies, but they were only the hors d’œuvre – Escape Plan is the main meal. It’s a [...]

March 16, 2014

The Expendables: Icons Of Action Cinema

Action cinema defined Hollywood in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The titans of the action movement were undoubtedly Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, two box office powerhouses who fought it out for dominance, and who managed to change the [...]

August 22, 2012