sci-fi

Action Packed Official Main Trailer For Denis Villeneuve’s Star Laden DUNE

Here’s the official main trailer for director Denis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. This looks impressive and pretty big in scope – but will the pricey spice movie score at the box office? Movies In Focus [...]

July 22, 2021

Trailer & Poster: Neill Blomkamp’s Sci-Fi/Horror DEMONIC

Writer/director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) seems to be switching things up a bit and taking his unique brand of sci-fi and merging it with the horror genre. It’s not a totally unexpected change of events, as Demonic certainly fits [...]

July 21, 2021

When Movies In Focus Met Harrison Ford

Movies In Focus has been covering movies for quite a long time and I’ve met a lot of famous and talented people along the way. But meeting Harrison Ford was something else. Ford is notoriously press-shy and he doesn’t suffer fools gladly. [...]

July 13, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Mick Garris & Sam Raimi On The Set Of THE STAND

Clocking-in at over 800 pages, Stephen King’s 1978 sci-fi/horror novel, The Stand is an epic battle of good versus evil. The TV adaptation was also an epic event when it first aired in 1994, garnering huge viewing figures and scoring impressive [...]

July 1, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Norman Jewison & James Caan On The Set Of ROLLERBALL

Sci-fi movies are everywhere now and it’s hard to believe that things were very different in the pre-Star Wars 1970s. The science fiction movies that were made were often dark tales filled with subtexts filled with social commentary. Norman [...]

June 19, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Linda Hamilton On The Set Of TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

David Ellison’s Skydance Media bought the Terminator rights and in 2015, Terminator Genisys (read the review) attempted to reboot the franchise, riffing on Cameron’s 1984 original and bringing back Arnold Schwarzenegger to his trademark [...]

June 8, 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

Notebook Reviews: GREMLINS

Joe Dante – 1984 Joe Dante‘s Gremlins is a film which has held-up incredibly well in the face of time and CGI. Dante’s film opens as a Capraesque comedy before descending into a 1950s-style creature feature. It’s the perfect [...]

June 5, 2021

Trailer & Poster: Neo-Noir Thriller REMINISCENCE Starring Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson & Thandiwe Newton

Writer/director/producer Lisa Joy’s Reminiscence seems to have strong echoes of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Christopher Nolan’s Inception. That’s no criticism, because I’m impressed and intrigued by this trailer [...]

June 3, 2021

DVD Review: Get Lost In Space With Sci-Fi Thriller BLACK BOX

Back in 2014, director Angel Delgado showed huge promise with his feature film debut, Brothers’ Day. The gritty crime thriller shone a light on the gang culture which prevails across England. For his follow-up film Black Box, Delgado has opted for [...]

May 29, 2021

Competition: Win Sci-Fi Thriller BLACK BOX On DVD

Movies In Focus was hugely impressed with Angel Delgado‘s brilliant science fiction thriller Black Box, calling it ‘a tremendous feat in low budget filmmaking‘. 101 Films is releasing the film on DVD in the UK on 31 May 2021 [...]

May 29, 2021

Remembering SUPER MARIO BROS: THE MOTION PICTURE Starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo & Dennis Hopper

It’s hard to imagine how big a failure Super Marion Bros: The Motion Picture was on its release in 1993. Directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, the film was supposed to be the film that brought video games and movies together, a lucrative [...]

May 25, 2021

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