the terminator

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

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 [...]

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

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