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CLOSED Competition: Win THE BATMAN On Blu-ray

Unmask the truth behind Gotham City’s vigilante detective and his alter ego, reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne with The Batman, now on Digital Download and 4K, Blu-ray and DVD on 13th June, and to celebrate its release Movies In Focus has two [...]

June 8, 2022

Review: THE BATMAN Is A Refreshing But Flawed Take On The Dark Knight

The Batman is the latest big screen incarnation of Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s iconic comic book hero. Over the last 30-odd years there have been multiple film takes on Batman from Tim Burton’s brooding gothic noir and Joel Schumacher’s [...]

March 8, 2022

LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER Sails Again

Over a decade ago (2010 to be exact) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace and Ben Kingsley were attached to the Last Voyage of The Demeter with 30 Days Of Night‘s David Slade set to direct. The plot of the film tells the tale [...]

January 30, 2021

Review: Serial Killer Thriller THE SILENCING Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau & Annabelle Wallis Is A Total Bore

A film with a lot of wasted potential, The Silencing is a serial killer thriller which is nothing to shout about. Stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Annabelle Wallis try their best with what they have, but even they seem bored by the time the film’s [...]

August 15, 2020

The Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century…So Far

Movies In Focus was inspired to put together a Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century list after reading the recent piece in Empire which listed the top movies of the century as voted for by the magazine’s readers. It was a pretty damning list [...]

January 21, 2020

Not For Me: THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB Trailer

Ditching the classy, well-paced storytelling of David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, this trailer for The Girl In The Spider’s Web looks like some sort of random superhero/Underworld mash-up. This time around Fede Alvarez [...]

June 7, 2018

MINDHUNTER Trailer: David Fincher Does Serial Killers For Netflix

Mindhunter sees David Fincher once again tackle serial killers on screen. If the thought of the man who brought you Se7en, Zodiac and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo doing a Netflix show on that subject matter doesn’t float yer boat, then go [...]

August 1, 2017

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

Review: KIDNAPPING FREDDY HEINEKEN With Anthony Hopkins And Sam Worthington Is All Fizz

Kidnapping Freddy Heineken (also known as Kidnapping Mr. Heineken) tells the true story of the 1983 kidnapping of the the beer mogul. Daniel Alfredson’s film has a strong cast (Anthony Hopkins, Sam Worthington, Jim Sturges) and a keen concept but [...]

April 16, 2015

DVD Review: SALAMANDER Season One – Belgium’s Biggest Mystery Since Van Damme

Thirty tears ago Tina Turner lamented about not needing another hero, and the same must be said today about European detectives. They’re ten-a-penny, solving crimes across the continent and audiences have been able to visit more countries than a [...]

March 15, 2014

Sony Mulls Over A Daniel Craig-Free THE GIRL WHO PLAY WITH FIRE

David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a great movie. Okay, I haven’t read Stieg Larsson’s book or watched the original Swedish film to say where it fits in getting across the story, but it’s still a great adult Hollywood [...]

February 2, 2013

Ron Howard Offers Hope For THE DARK TOWER

Over the last year or so three big budget films from A-list filmmakers were put on hold by Hollywood studios due to their massive costs. The Lone Ranger had Johnny Depp starring as sidekick Tonto, with Jerry Bruckheimer producing and Gore Verbinski [...]

May 8, 2012

Audiences To Swallow Soderbergh’s BITTER PILL In February

Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, Bitter Pill is set to open on February 8, 2013, with Open Road releasing. The thriller stars the interesting mix of The Girl With The Dragin Tattoo‘s Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Catherine [...]

April 17, 2012

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO DVD Causes Confusion

You have to hand it to the Columbia Pictures marketing department (and David Fincher), you really do. They’ve managed to get a lot of people talking about Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. First there was the “bootlegged” [...]

March 24, 2012

The 84th Academy Awards – The Winners, The Losers, The Only Opinion.

So, the Oscars have been awarded and the awards season has finally come to a close. There were few surprises during the 84th Academy Awards, and like most predicted, The Artist was the big winner on the night scooping five awards for Best Picture, [...]

February 27, 2012