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Uncovering Curiosities: Mark Hartley’s ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films is a documentary that charts the rise and fall of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’ Cannon film company. Mark Hartley’s film digs deep, showing how the Israeli cousins started making films [...]

December 15, 2020

It Doesn’t Matter If DIE HARD Is A Christmas Movie!

Every year the argument rages to decide whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Bruce Willis believes that it isn’t, but there are others who feel that John McTiernan’s film sits alongside the likes of It’s A Wonderful Life [...]

November 25, 2020

It’s A Long Road: Sylvester Stallone Takes A Break On The Set Of FIRST BLOOD

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 1982 film was a cinematic gut punch, a energetic adventure tale with a [...]

August 5, 2020

Behind The Scenes: Arnold Schwarzenegger And Harrison Ford On The Set Of THE EXPENDABLES 3

If you delve too deep into The Expendables 3 then you’ll see that it’s implausible and totally far-fetched, but it’s a film which doesn’t pretend to be anything other than fun! Patrick Hughes’ action pic is a fun thrill-ride, [...]

April 23, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Spend Time With Sylvester Stallone In LOCK UP

Lock Up might not be Sylvester Stallone’s finest hour, but if you check your brain at the door and embrace its silliness then you’ll likely have a good enough time. This prison thriller sees Stallone’s salt-of-the-earth prisoner having a [...]

September 29, 2019

Sylvester Stallone Agrees With Movies In Focus: Escape Plan 2 Is The Most Horribly Produced Film

Sylvester Stallone has been doing the promo for the fun Escape Plan 3: The Extractors. It follows hot in the heels of the atrocious Escape Plan 2: Hades – one of the very few films Movies In Focus has ever given just one star (read the [...]

July 1, 2019

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

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