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Monster Opening For SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Breaks Box Office Records

It’s been a while since Movies In Focus did any sort of deep-dive into box office analysis. That stuff doesn’t interest me like it used to, mainly because I no longer have a dog in the fight. In the good old days, you could follow actors [...]

December 20, 2021

Trailer: Guillermo Del Toro’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY Starring Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara & Cate Blanchett

The great Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is a remake of the 1947 film noir classic/ adaptation of the 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham. Del Toro is coming-off the huge financial, critical and award-wining success of The Shape Of [...]

September 17, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Bruce Willis & M. Night Shyamalan On The Set Of THE SIXTH SENSE

The Sixth Sense is known for its twist ending where the audience discovers that Bruce Willis‘ Dr. Malcom Crowe has been one of the ‘dead people’ that Haley Joel Osment‘s Cole Sear has been seeing throughout the movie. [...]

July 26, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Terence Gross’ HOTEL SPLENDIDE

Hotel Splendide is a quirky black comedy from 2000 starring a pre-James Bond Daniel Craig in one of the lead roles. It’s a good looking film that owes a lot to the visual styles of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Terry Gilliam, but it fails to hit the [...]

April 28, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Tom Holland & Chris Sarandon On The Set Of FRIGHT NIGHT

Tom Holland’s 1985 vampire flick is still a blast over 35 years after it was first released. On a tonal level Fright Night is very similar to Joel Schumacher’s fellow stylish ‘80s bite pic The Lost Boys. It’s not quite as good as that film, [...]

November 5, 2020

The 2020 Golden Globes Full Nominations List

It’s easy to become cynical when you write about movies. You get to see the good, the bad and the ugly and sometimes that makes you jaded. However, there’s nothing like watching quality movies succeed and when you see the list of [...]

December 9, 2019

THE SIXTH SENSE: Still Great After 20 Years

M. Night Shyamalan‘s The Sixth Sense opened in the US on 6 August 1999. It came out of nowhere in late summer, and scored $293 million in the US and $379 million in foreign territories for a $672.8 million global total. It was the second [...]

August 6, 2019

Don Johnson & Daniel Craig In The Trailer For Rian Johnson’s KNIVES OUT

Movies In Focus loves a whodunnit. It’s a trait I inherited from my mother (boy, does she love a good murder). Therefore I was already sold on Last Jedi director Rian Johnson‘s Agatha Christie inspired Knives Out. Throw in the [...]

July 2, 2019

Blu-ray Review: UNLOCKED Is A Spy Thriller With An Impressive Cast

Unlocked is a fuss-free spy thriller from veteran director Michael Apted. Noomi Rapace plays a CIA agent left out in the cold and on the run, criss-crossed and double-crossed as she attempts to stop a terrorist attack in London. You know the drill. [...]

September 2, 2017