the terminator

Review: Adam Wingard’s THE GUEST Entertains Like A VHS-Era Thriller

A lean and mean thriller, director Adam Wingard‘s 2014 film The Guest is a hugely entertaining affair. Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett keep this retro-style pic simple, delivering a quick set-up in order to craft some tense moments and [...]

October 31, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

When you look at how action cinema evolved in the 1980s, it’s very now clear that Escape From New York is one of the films which helped to establish the template for the muscular action hero. John Carpenter’s 1981 film (his second of many [...]

October 16, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Director Jee-Woon Kim On The Set Of THE LAST STAND

2013’s The Last Stand is constructed around Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mighty frame. He’s the force at the centre of the action, but not always the focus. The film’s impressive supporting cast (Forrest Whitaker, Peter Stormare, Luis Guzman, [...]

August 31, 2021

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY Is 30 Years Old

For better or for worse, James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day helped usher in the age of CGI-fueled blockbusters when it was released back in 1991. The liquid metal effects of the T-1000 showed audiences a brave new cinematic world and [...]

July 4, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Linda Hamilton On The Set Of TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

David Ellison’s Skydance Media bought the Terminator rights and in 2015, Terminator Genisys (read the review) attempted to reboot the franchise, riffing on Cameron’s 1984 original and bringing back Arnold Schwarzenegger to his trademark [...]

June 8, 2021

James Cameron’s TERMINATOR

James Cameron’s 1984 breakthrough movie, The Terminator was a tight and lean scI-fi/thriller – a film that played much like a horror. Schwarzenegger’s unstoppable robotic force was a terrifying villain that couldn’t be reasoned with. It [...]

June 6, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Producer Dana Goldberg On The Set Of TERMINATOR GENISYS

2015’s Terminator Genisys is the fifth entry in the Terminator franchise – and the second attempt at rebooting it following Terminator Salvation in 2009. Its lacklustre reception meant that yet another reboot was attempted in 2019 with [...]

June 5, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Billy O’Brien’s SCINTILLA

Scintilla (also known as The Hybrid) shows once again that you don’t need a mega budget to deliver a captivating science fiction feature. Writer/director Billy O’Brien’s film may not break new ground in a narrative sense, but it works as a [...]

October 29, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Richard Stanley’s HARDWARE

It’s hard to believe that Richard Stanley’s Hardware is celebrating its 25th anniversary. This science fiction horror marked Stanley’s directorial debut and it showed him to be a unique voice in the world of genre filmmaking. Stanley was on [...]

October 16, 2020

Notebook Reviews: THE TERMINATOR

James Cameron – 1984 The Terminator is tight, taut and tense. James Cameron‘s low budget actioner is near perfect. The 1984 scf-fi thriller marked the first collaboration between the director and Arnold Schwarzenegger and the duo have [...]

October 14, 2020

Watch The Music Video For REACH From Bill Paxton’s Band Martini Ranch – Directed By James Cameron!

There’s a billion things which have passed Movies In Focus by – but I didn’t seem to know that the mighty Bill Paxton was in a band called Martini Ranch (alongside Andrew Todd Rosenthal) – and I definitely didn’t [...]

September 17, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Caradog W. James’ THE MACHINE

Low budget science fiction films are able to play with bigger themes than their larger budget counterparts. They don’t have to worry about appealing to a mass audience in order to recoup their cost, meaning that they can play a little fast and [...]

August 31, 2020

Review: TERMINATOR: DARK FATE Resets The Timeline And Delivers The Best Franchise Entry Since T2

The Terminator franchise has been pretty uneven since Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released back in 1991. This shift in quality is because James Cameron jumped ship and no one with the same talent was able to pilot the series, with a revolving [...]

October 27, 2019

New TERMINATOR: DARK FATE Trailer Ticks All The Right Boxes

Movies In Focus was seriously underwhelmed by the first trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate. It lacked cohesion, mojo and Arnold Schwarzenegger. And we won’t even talk about the music choice. However, this new trailer for the James Cameron [...]

August 31, 2019

Poster, Stills & Trailer For TERMINATOR: DARK FATE – This Looks Terrible

Movies In Focus has been a fan of the Terminator franchise for decades. James Cameron’s The Terminator is a flawless piece of filmmaking and Terminator 2: Judgement Day is the perfect way to expand the first film’s mythology and it also [...]

May 25, 2019

They’re Back! TERMINATOR: DARK FATE Images

It’s no secret that the Terminator franchise hasn’t lived up to the first two James Cameron films. This has happened for a multitude of reasons (the main one being the lack of Cameron’s involvement) and at this point it’s [...]

April 6, 2019

Blu-ray Review: James Cameron’s TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY Is Still Great

November 28, 2017

Behind The Scenes Of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY

Terminator 2: Judgment Day was a transformative event for Movies In Focus. James Cameron’s epic was a powerful experience and I’m glad to have seen it on the big screen way back in the summer of 1991. The film hits blu-ray on 4 December [...]

November 16, 2017

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY 3D – Villain To Hero Featurette

In 1991, an 11 year-old Movies In Focus attempted to pass himself off as a 15 year-old in order to see James Cameron‘s Terminator 2: Judgement Day. It wasn’t a wholly successful act, but I managed to see the movie anyway, and my mind was [...]

August 21, 2017

The TERMINATOR Franchise Is Terminated

It looks like the follow-up to Terminator Genisys has been scraped. Paramount Pictures has pulled the film (called er…Terminator 2 by Variety) from a planned May 19, 2017 release and dropped a third film from a June 29, 2018 debut. The news comes [...]

January 21, 2016

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