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Uncovering Curiosities: Tom Hardy’s TABOO

First hitting screens in 2017, Tom Hardy’s Taboo is a dark and dense eight-part series filled with grit and gravel. It’s uncompromising in its vision and Hardy’s James Delaney is a dark anti-hero who cuts a brooding figure as he rumbles [...]

January 5, 2022

Trailer: Anne Hathaway & Chiwetel Ejiofor Star In Doug Liman’s Pandemic Inspired Heist Movie LOCKED DOWN

HBO Max has dropped the trailer for Doug Liman’s Locked Down, a new COVID-19 inspired comedy-thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Hathaway and Ejiofor play a couple on the brink of breaking-up when a lockdown situation keeps [...]

January 5, 2021

It Looks Like The New Lisbeth Salander Descends From Royalty

It looks like Sony Pictures has their new Lisbeth Salander. Variety is reporting that Claire Foy (The Crown) has been offered the role of Salander in The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the studio’s sequel/reboot of The Girl With The Dragon [...]

May 16, 2017

THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB: No Fincher, No Mara, No Craig Means No Interest

Movies In Focus officially has no interest in The Girl In The Spider’s Web. The film is the follow-up to David Fincher’s classy 2011 thriller, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which starred Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig. It’s obvious [...]

March 13, 2017

First Full Trailer For Tom Hardy’s TABOO

Tom Hardy and Steven Knight’s Taboo hits screens on 7 January 2017 – and still little is known about the epic drama. Here’s the first full-length trailer which offers up the first good look at the BBC series (FX in the US). It [...]

December 26, 2016

Tom Hardy Goes Native In The Trailer For The BBC’s TABOO

The constantly busy Tom Hardy reteams with Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Locke) for Taboo, a new BBC drama that Hardy and Knight are producing with Ridley Scott. That impressive pedigree gives Taboo a lot of potential and it looks like it will be [...]

February 27, 2016

WORLD WAR Z 2 Is On The way And A Title With A Colon Is A Necessity

World War Z was 1000 times better than it should have been. The Brad Pitt zombie movie had a troubled production but it turned out to be a highly entertaining flick. Who cares if it had little resemblance to Max Brooks novel. The 2013 movie scored [...]

May 23, 2015

DVD Review: Jason Statham Looks For Redemption In HUMMINGBIRD

Jason Statham tries something a little different with Hummingbird (aka Redemption). The gruff action star might not be tackling Shakespeare in the near future but he does attempt to show emotion , putting in a decent performance as the flawed hero. [...]

October 20, 2013