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Movies To Watch This Christmas

Christmastime is here again and Movies In Focus is presenting you with a list of Christmas movies to watch over the festive season. Some are naughty and some are nice, but they’re definitely an intriguing selection of movies to light-up your [...]

December 4, 2021

Notebook Reviews: THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

Sydney Pollack – 1975. Director Sydney Pollack‘s. Three Days Of The Condor is 1970s cinema at its finest. Robert Redford is at his most charismatic and the Christmas setting helps add some wintry chills to proceedings. Faye Dunaway, Max [...]

November 11, 2021

The Great Robert Redford

The great Robert Redford turned 85 years old on 18 August 2021. One of the all-time great movie stars, Redford has alway been a politically active actor, although one who has spent a lot of time carefully crafting his screen image and a [...]

August 18, 2021

Review: Nicholas Jarecki’s Opioid Thriller CRISIS Starring Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer & Evangeline Lilly Provokes & Engages

Writer/director Nicholas Jarecki’s Crisis is a punchy thriller, which offers audiences a thought-provoking piece of grown-up cinema. Jarecki uses the every real opioid crisis as the basis for three interwoven stories which focus on different [...]

March 17, 2021

The Sundance Kid: Robert Redford

The mighty Robert Redford is one of the all-time great movie stars. He’s a politically active star, although one who has spent a lot of time carefully crafting his screen image and a wonderfully rich filmography since he big screen debut in the [...]

February 21, 2021

Notebook Reviews: THE FIRM

Sydney Pollack – 1993 The Firm is and enjoyable and slick John Grisham adaptation from master craftsman Sydney Pollack. This legal thriller has good roles for Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman and while it’s not as good as the book, it’s [...]

December 14, 2020

Top Christmas Movies: THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack. Christmas. Three Days Of The Condor is 1970s cinema at its best. Redford is at his movie star best and the festive setting helps add some wintry chills. Robert Redford plays Joe Turner, a lowly CIA analyst [...]

November 30, 2020

Competition: Win OUT OF AFRICA Starring Robert Redford & Meryl Streep On Blu-ray

Director Sydney Pollack’s multi Oscar-winning film Out Of Africa is being released by Fabulous Films on blu-ray on 28 September. To celebrate the release of the Robert Redford/Meryl Streep starring epic, Movies In Focus is giving 2 readers [...]

September 12, 2020

Sydney Pollack Sets Up The Shot With Robert Redford On The Set Of THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

Sydney Pollack’s Three Days Of The Condor is 1970s cinema at its finest and the Christmas setting helps add some wintry chills to proceedings. The 1975 paranoia thriller is almost flawless and it features Robert Redford at his most [...]

April 15, 2020

Don’t Tell Robert Redford! Max Irons Is CONDOR

Sydney Pollack’s Three Days Of The Condor is one of the great films of the 1970s (read the Movies In Focus review). It’s almost flawless and Robert Redford is at his charismatic best in the 1975 thriller, which was based on the novel Six [...]

February 7, 2017

Blu-ray Review: Robert Redford In Sydney Pollack’s THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

The 1970s offered up some wonderful suspense-filled paranoia thrillers. One of the best films in the cycle was Sydney Pollack’s Three Days Of The Condor. Pollack stacks his film with a great cast, with his go-to leading man Robert Redford in the [...]

April 16, 2016

1999: A Movie Year In Review (Part Two)

Welcome to Part 2 of our 1999 Movie Retrospective. The final year of the last century was one hell of a cinematic ride and it offered some outstanding films for lovers of cinema. Now be aware that this is not a definitive list of the films released [...]

May 15, 2012