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Review: Sylvester Stallone Actioner ESCAPE PLAN 3: THE EXTRACTORS Is Surprisingly Good Fun

Escape Plan 2: Hades was a cinematic abomination, a woeful black mark on the career of Sylvester Stallone. The Steven C. Miller sequel to the enjoyable 2013 actioner was cheap and nasty, a visual void with a sleepwalking Stallone collecting a [...]

June 23, 2019

Stallone Is Back In The RAMBO: LAST BLOOD Trailer

Rambo: Last Blood seems to be something of a left turn for the 40 year old franchise. This fifth (and likely final) entry into Sylvester Stallone‘s bone-crunching, gun-blasting action series looks to be more of a modern day western and a [...]

May 30, 2019

Why Bother? Jaume Collet-Serra To Direct ESCAPE TO VICTORY Remake

Escape To Victory (or Victory as it was known in the US) is generally regarded as one of the worst films ever made. Why would you even consider remaking the John Huston directed WWII pic? The 1981 film starred the unlikely combination of Michael [...]

March 16, 2019

Interview: FIRST BLOOD Author David Morrell Talks RAMBO – Part 1

The new 4K release of First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rambo III afforded me the tremendous opportunity of chatting with author David Morrell. Morrell’s 1972 novel, First Blood introduced the world to Rambo and ten years later the [...]

November 14, 2018

Drawing First Blood: RAMBO

In 1982, First Blood introduced cinema audiences to John Rambo for the first time and the face of cinema was changed. An adaptation of David Morrell’s tense novel, Ted Kotcheff’s film was a cinematic gut punch, a energetic adventure tale with a [...]

November 12, 2018

It’s Creed Versus Drago In The New Trailer For CREED II

The new trailer for Steven Caple Jr’s Creed II packs a punch. It’s Creed Vs Drago 2.0 and Balboa Vs Drago 1.2. You’ll get bang for you buck in and out of the ring once this hits on 30 November. I’m loving how Sylvester [...]

September 26, 2018

Review: Sylvester Stallone Toplines The Dire ESCAPE PLAN 2: HADES

Nobody enjoyed the Sylvester Stallone/Arnold Schwarzenegger smash-up Escape Plan more than Movies In Focus. The 2013 flick was a fun actioner, which was bolstered by an above average supporting cast (Jim Caviezel, Sam Neill, Vincent D’Onofrio [...]

July 7, 2018

Trailer: Michael B. Jordan Is Back In The Ring For CREED II

Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed has loyalty inside his DNA, apparently. That’s the reason why he’s going to face Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu) in the ring in Creed II. Drago senior (Dolph Lundgren) was the man who killed [...]

June 20, 2018

Flying High: CREED II Poster Drops

Ryan Coogler’s Creed bagged great reviews and scored $109 million at the US box office – making it the fourth most successful film in the seven-part Rocky franchise (unadjusted). Coogler isn’t returning for the sequel (he was a [...]

June 19, 2018

Sylvester Stallone Gears Up For THE EXPENDABLES 4 & RAMBO 5

Long-time readers of Movies In Focus will know that I have a lot of love for old-school action flicks (hey, I grew-up in the ’80s and ’90s). I’ve been particularly taken by The Expendables movies – and I’m thrilled that [...]

May 22, 2018

Is Sylvester Stallone Back For THE EXPENDABLES 4?

A few months ago Sylvester Stallone walked away from The Expendables 4 because of creative differences with producer Avi Lerner (Arnold Schwarzenegger then followed Stallone out the door). However, a new post on Instagram sees the [...]

August 12, 2017

Trailer & Poster For Bruce Willis/Hayden Christensen Thriller FIRST KILL

Bruce Willis and Hayden Christensen topline First Kill, the latest flick from director Steven C. Miller. Movies in Focus is always up for watching an old-fashioned thriller and I hope this hits the mark. I have hight hopes though, as Miller [...]

June 7, 2017

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