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Closed Competition: Win Steven Soderbergh’s MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE With Channing Tatum On Blu-ray

Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike’s Last Dance starring Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek Pinault will be available to own on Blu-ray and DVD from 24th April 2023. To celebrate, Movies In Focus is offering 2 lucky readers the chance to win a [...]

April 18, 2023

Dressed To Kill: Go Gaga Over The Trailer For Ridley Scott’s All-Star HOUSE OF GUCCI

The first trailer for Ridley Scott‘s House Of Gucci has dropped – and it’s a good one. This is an energetic piece of marketing which helps sell the film and it’s all-star cast Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jeremy [...]

July 30, 2021

Marvel Studios Celebrates The Movies – But It’s Really Celebrating The Death Of Cinema

This trailer montage is titled Marvel Studios Celebrates The Movies – but it’s just promoting the studios upcoming slate which includes the long delayed Black Widow, Chloe Zhao’s Eternals and Shang Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings [...]

May 4, 2021

Review: BLISS Starring Owen Wilson & Salma Hayek Has An Intriguing Premise But A Fumbled Execution

Writer/director Mike Cahill’s Bliss is a film which takes a big swing but ultimately never really delivers on its promise. That’s a shame because this Owen Wilson/Salma Hayek film drama features some intriguing concepts and a great straight turn [...]

February 5, 2021

Notebook Reviews: FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

Robert Rodriguez – 1996 From Dusk Till Dawn is a witty, gory and morally ambiguous horror-thriller. It’s great fun. There’s a chance that the whole thing wouldn’t work if it wasn’t anchored by George Clooney, who brings [...]

January 5, 2021

Notebook Reviews: WILD WILD WEST

Barry Sonnenfeld – 1999 Director Barry Sonnefeld‘s Wild Wild Wild West is much better than the reviews make out. Will Smith and Kevin Kline are on fine form, although the latter is under-used. Kenneth Branagh and Salma Hayek offer-up [...]

October 31, 2020

Behind The Scenes: Brett Ratner Directs Pierce Brosnan On The Set Of AFTER THE SUNSET

Movies In Focus has a serious soft spot for the 2004 Pierce Brosnan starrer After the Sunset. Directed by Brett Ratner, the heist comedy is like a spiritual cousin to Brosnan’s 1999 romantic caper The Thomas Crown Affair. Co-starring Salma [...]

August 14, 2020

TRAILER & POSTER: Sally Potter’s THE ROADS NOT TAKEN Starring Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning & Salma Hayek

Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken opens on 11 September 2020 and it looks like it features yet another bravura performance from the mighty Javier Bardem. A time-shifting, plot shifting drama, this fits perfectly within Potter’s [...]

August 10, 2020

When WILD WILD WEST Almost Derailed Will Smith’s Career

Wicki- Wicki- Wild Wild West. Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s Wild Wild West was seen as the sure fire hit of the summer of 1999 (well, alongside Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace). Will Smith, July 4th Weekend and a bucket load of CGI. The [...]

July 4, 2020

DVD Review: TALE OF TALES Is A Good Looking But Soulless Collection Of Adult Fairy Tales

Tale of Tales is a sumptuous looking adult fairy tale that makes for enjoyable viewing, however despite its top tier cast and quirky tone it’s all rather soulless and it fails to truly draw the viewer into its three interwoven stories. Matteo [...]

August 1, 2016

DVD Review: Pierce Brosnan Shows You How To Make Love Like An Englishman In LESSONS IN LOVE

Lessons In Love (aka Some Kind of Beautiful/ How to Make Love Like an Englishman) is a light and breezy romantic comedy that sees Pierce Brosnan exude effortless charm as Richard Haig, a womanising lecturer whose life hits a major bump when his [...]

November 15, 2015

Pierce Brosnan Shows You How To Make Love Like An Englishman In The LESSONS IN LOVE Trailer

Pierce Brosnan stars as a poetry professor with a complicated love life in Lessons In Love (also known as How To Make Love Like An Englishman or Some Kind of Beautiful). This looks like a fun comedy with Brosnan’s charm on full display. [...]

August 10, 2015