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Remembering David Bowie

Musician, actor and cultural trendsetter, the great David Bowie was one of the few artists who managed to legitimately transcend pop consciousness – he was his own thing. He was David Bowie. Born David Jones on January 8, 1947, Bowie [...]

January 8, 2022

Notebook Reviews: SWEET HEARTS DANCE

Robert Greenwald – 1988. Sweet Hearts Dance is a very good family drama with some very fine comedic moments woven throughout. The excellent cast – Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels and Elizabeth Perkins – all deliver [...]

November 18, 2021

Notebook Reviews: TWILIGHT

Robert Benton – 1998. Twilight is an excellent modern day film noir with a hugely impressive cast. The great Paul Newman leads the way but Robert Benton‘s film also stars the mighty James Garner, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, Reese [...]

September 15, 2021

There’s No Need To Remake Tony Scott’s THE HUNGER

The late, great Tony Scott made his big screen directing debut with the ultra-stylish 1983 vampire film, The Hunger. The film starred Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie as vampire lovers who get caught-up in a relationship with Susan [...]

May 18, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Burt Lancaster & Louis Malle On The Set Of ATLANTIC CITY

Louis Malle’s Atlantic City is a lost classic starring Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon. Lancaster stars in this low key drama as an ageing gangster who gets one last shot at the big time when he befriends a trainee croupier and becomes involved [...]

January 30, 2021

Competition: Win BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY On iTunes Download

To celebrate the DVD release of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story on DVD and download, Movies In Focus is giving away 3 iTunes Download vouchers to lucky readers of the site Hedy Lamarr was iconic. A Hollywood star known as ‘the most beautiful [...]

April 23, 2018

Blu-ray Review: James Spader & Susan Sarandon In The Yuppie Fuelled Romantic Dramedy WHITE PALACE

White Palace is a slick and stylish yuppie soap opera which is the type of film that could only have come out of Hollywood in the 1980s/1990s. James Spader is a young, successful advertising executive who hooks-up with Susan Sarandon’s older [...]

November 5, 2017

Enter The Matrix: The Career Of The Wachowski Siblings

The Wachowskis siblings are often described as visionary directors celebrated for their orginaility, creativity and visually stunning work. Jupiter Ascending is undoubtedly unique in an era of remakes and sequels, this is a spectacle that really [...]

June 16, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Dwayne Johnson Is Great In SNITCH; Shame About The Movie

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson shows off his acting chops, rather than his muscles in Snitch. The former wrestler gives a good performance – it’s a shame that the movie is so flat. Johnson plays John Matthews, a family man who runs a [...]

October 19, 2013

Review: Burt Lancaster And Susan Sarandon In Louis Malle’s ATLANTIC CITY

April 22, 2012