the witch in the window Archives

Uncovering Curiosities: Andy Mitton’s THE WITCH IN THE WINDOW

Writer-director Andy Mitton’s 2018 film, The Witch In The Window is one of the most beautifully crafted horror films to hit screens in many years. Mitton’s film is a perfectly precise piece of genre cinema, filled with wonderful [...]

October 24, 2021

Horror Movies To Watch This Halloween

October is when the nights get darker and more mysterious. It’s the month when people like to delve deep into the horror genre and watch a variety of scary movies as Halloween approaches. Movies In Focus has put together a list of [...]

October 2, 2021

Movies In Focus Quotes

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognised wiser than oneself.” – Marlene Dietrich Movies In Focus has been doing the movie review thing for well [...]

June 12, 2021

You Can Quote Me On That!

Movies In Focus has been doing the whole movie review thing for well over a decade now and I’m always excited when I score a poster/DVD/blu-ray cover quote. It’s a validation of sorts and at the very least it shows that someone, [...]

December 22, 2020

25 Great Horror Movies To Watch This October

October is the month where people like to delve deep into the horror genre and watch a variety of scary movies in the lead-up to Halloween. Movies In Focus has put together a list of 25 great horror movies. Some of them are classics films and others [...]

October 4, 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

Movie Review Cover Quotes Still Don’t Get Old

Movies In Focus has published a similar riff before, but the recent quote on the DVD of the Nicolas Cage versus Jaguar on-a-boat movie Primal, led me to put it out there again. I’ve been doing the whole movie review thing for well over a [...]

January 11, 2020

Closed Competition: Win The Brilliant Horror Film THE WITCH IN THE WINDOW On DVD

Andy Mitton’s brilliant The Witch In The Window will be released on DVD in the UK by Network on 8 July. To celebrate this horror masterpiece hitting the streets, Movies In Focus is giving away two copies of the film on DVD. Read the Movies In [...]

June 29, 2019

Movie Review Cover Quotes Never Get Old

Movies In Focus been doing the whole movie review thing for well over a decade now and I’m always excited when I score a poster/DVD/blu-ray cover quote. It’s a validation of sorts and at the very least it shows that someone, somewhere [...]

June 29, 2019

Review: Andy Mitton’s THE WITCH IN THE WINDOW Is a Horror Masterpiece

Andy Mitton’s The Witch In The Window is one of the most beautifully crafted horror films to hit screens in many years. Mitton’s film is a perfectly precise piece of genre cinema, filled with wonderful character moments as [...]

October 20, 2018

Mayhem Film Festival 2018: Days Three & Four

After getting off to a stunning start, the 2018 Mayhem Film Festival continued to impress over the course of its final two days. Day Three The third day of Mayhem 2018 began with the wonderfully bonkers One Cut Of The Dead. We were told by Chris [...]

October 15, 2018

MAYHEM FILM FESTIVAL 2018: The Full Line-Up

The 14th Mayhem Film Festival takes place at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema from 11 to 14 October and the festival will once again unleash an energetic collection of horror and sci-fi movies. It’s a weird and wonderful weekend of wicked [...]

September 5, 2018