the mummy

15 Things To Know Before Seeing MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One hits cinema screens around the globe this week. The seventh instalment in the long-running spy franchise once again sees Tom Cruise conduct gravity-defying stunts as intrepid IMF agent Ethan Hunt. [...]

July 5, 2023

Notebook Reviews: DEEP RISING

Stephen Sommers – 1998. Writer/director Stephen Sommers delivers a gloriously wonderful B-movie in the shape of Deep Rising. Part Poseidon Adventure and part Aliens, Sommers’ film is an absolute hoot from start to finish. Treat [...]

September 29, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Terence Fisher Directs Christopher Lee On The Set Of 1959’s Hammer Horror THE MUMMY

The Mummy takes one of horror’s most enduring characters and adds two of the genre’s most iconic stars to deliver a film that still holds up fifty years on. Director Terence Fisher may not be a great stylist, but he knows how to build tension [...]

January 10, 2021

Notebook Reviews: THE MUMMY RETURNS

Stephen Sommers – 2001 The Mummy Returns is another enjoyable action-adventure from director Stephen Sommers. It’s not quite as good as its predecessor, but this is a good attempt at recreating the magic of that surprise 1999 hit. The [...]

October 25, 2020

Respect To Tod Browning’s DRACULA

Tod Browning’s 1931 film, Dracula kick-started Hollywood’s fascination with horror. Almost 100 years on and the adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel remains the quintessential vampire film. The massive success of the Bela Lugosi starrer [...]

September 7, 2020

Trailer For Serial Killer Thriller THE SILENCING Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau & Annabelle Wallis

There’s a serious 1990s vibe to be felt in this trailer for director Robin Pront’s serial killer thriller, The Silencing. In fact, the shadow of Jonathan Demme’s The Silence Of The Lambs appears to loom large over the film which [...]

June 28, 2020

Remembering Universal Pictures’ Ill-Fated DARK UNIVERSE

2017 was a much simpler time. It was a time when Universal Pictures decided to follow the Marvel route and attempted to create a shared universe for the classic Universal Monsters. The studio scored an A-list cast: Johnny Depp as the Invisible [...]

June 7, 2020

Well That’s One Way To Do It! First Trailer For THE INVISIBLE MAN

Who would have imagined that Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions would have figured out an intriguing (and pretty impressive) way to bring back the long dormant Invisible Man franchise for the 21st Century? The character, created by H.G. [...]

November 7, 2019

20 Years Later: 1999 Was One Of The Greatest Film Years Ever!

Sometimes the stars just align and greatness arrives all at once. Maybe it was because a lot of great filmmakers hit their stride (David Fincher, M.Night Shymalan, Spike Jonze etc) or just pre-millennium fear, but 1999 saw a lot of great movies land [...]

January 3, 2019

It’s HAMMER Time This November On The Horror Channel

This November the UK’s Horror Channel is celebrating horror cinema at its finest with a Hammer Classics Seasons. The channel is embracing the best of horror by showing The Abominable Snowman, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy [...]

October 23, 2018

15 Things You Need To Know Before You See MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT

Mission: Impossible – Fallout hits cinema screens around the globe at end of July. The sixth instalment in the long-running spy franchise once again sees Tom Cruise conduct gravity defying stunts as intrepid IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Before you [...]

June 30, 2018

Annabelle Wallis Joins Mel Gibson & Frank Grillo In Joe Carnahan’s BOSS LEVEL

Have you ever walked into a restaurant, looked at the menu, seen something and thought ‘damn, I’m definitely having that’? That’s how Joe Carnahan‘s Boss Level reads to Movies In Focus – a juicy sirloin steak [...]

March 28, 2018

Celebrate 60 Years Of Hammer Horror

Readers of Movies in Focus will know that I have a huge appreciation for Hammer Horror movies. The films from the British horror studio have a style of their own and they dripped with a wonderful gothic atmosphere. Hammer’s first horror film [...]

August 5, 2017

Welcome To The DARK UNIVERSE

I have to admit that this is giving Movies In Focus a little tingle. I’ve been craving a reboot of the classic Universal Monsters since Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy hit screens back in 1999 and now I’m getting it – with a [...]

May 22, 2017

There Are Moments Worth Paying For In THE MUMMY

Here’s Sofia Boutella – soon to be seen in opposite Tom Cruise in The Mummy – in an exclusive trailer for the Industry Trust’s Moments Worth Paying For campaign. We live in dark times where piracy comes at the click of a mouse [...]

May 13, 2017

Bill Condon Is The Perfect Person To Direct BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Bill Condon‘s 1998 film Gods And Monsters starring Ian McKellen and Brendan Fraser is something of a masterpiece (it won an Oscar in 1999 for Best Adapted Screenplay). The biopic of Frankenstein and Bride Of Frankenstein director James Whale [...]

April 15, 2017

The Poster For Tom Cruise’s THE MUMMY Unwraps

‘Show me the Mummy. Mummy: Impossible’ – I’ve used these jokes (but not The Color of Mummy), but I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to Tom Cruise‘s The Mummy. This is the summer blockbuster that I [...]

April 6, 2017

Another Great Trailer For Tom Cruise’s THE MUMMY

Movies In Focus is usually the first to lambast big budget action movies based on their trailers. However, I’m really liking what I see from The Mummy. Maybe it’s the Tom Cruise factor, or maybe it’s my love of old horror movies [...]

April 3, 2017

Show Me THE MUMMY: New Footage In Featurette For Tom Cruise Adventure

The first trailer rocked (check it out) – and now this behind-the-scenes piece for The Mummy continues to make the Tom Cruise starrer look great. I’m excited to see Cruise and Russell Crowe play-off each other and I’m curious to [...]

December 9, 2016

Mummy Impossible: First Full Trailer For Universal’s THE MUMMY Starring Tom Cruise

I don’t think anyone would have ever imagined that Tom Cruise would topline a reboot of Universal Pictures’ The Mummy. But he is – and it looks bloody fantastic. Russell Crowe is along for the ride, while Sofia Boutella plays the [...]

December 5, 2016

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