top gun: maverick

Trailer & Poster: Tom Cruise Is Back As Ethan Hunt In MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

This summer Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Cruise once again pushes himself to the limit on the film, performing all kinds of impossible stunts – just look at that bike jump! If [...]

May 17, 2023

Tom Cruise Gets The Drop In The New Poster For MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

In 2022, Tom Cruise saved cinema with the massive success of the magnificent Top Gun: Maverick. He’ll be back busting blocks in 2023 with Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. The seventh and allegedly penultimate instalment in the [...]

March 14, 2023

OSCARS 2023: A Full List Of The 95th Academy Awards Nominations

Movies In Focus is just going to say this up front – I want Top Gun: Maverick to win Best Picture at the 2023 Academy Awards. The reason being is that it’s a crowd pleaser – a movie. A Hollywood movie. It deserves to win. It would [...]

January 24, 2023

Review: Tom Cruise Delivers Sky-High Entertainment With TOP GUN: MAVERICK

Without a doubt Top Gun: Maverick delivers one of the best mainstream Hollywood action films of the last several years. Forget your Avengers or Justice Leagues, Tom Cruise shows how to give audiences the type of entertainment that they’ve been [...]

November 18, 2022

Review: Jon Hamm Excels In The Comedy-Mystery CONFESS, FLETCH

Confess, Fletch is a fun, breezy, star-driven comedy-mystery with a magnificently charismatic turn from the mighty Jon Hamm. This adaptation of Gregory Mcdonald’s 1976 novel is a cool throwback movie – the type of film which was the [...]

September 17, 2022

Podcast – Episode 20: Lorne Balfe Talks About Composing The Music For TOP GUN: MAVERICK

Actors, writers, directors and producers all have key roles in production – but one of the most important aspects in a film is the musical score – a score can literally make or break a film. Composer Lorne Balfe joins the Movies In [...]

June 10, 2022

Behind The Scenes: Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron & John Frankenheimer On The Set Of REINDEER GAMES

Director John Frankenheimer’s Reindeer Games (aka Deception) is a festive thriller starring Ben Affleck as an ex-con forced into robbing a casino at Christmas dressed as Santa Claus. Frankenheimer’s film makes the most of film’s [...]

December 19, 2021

Remembering Shane Black’s KISS KISS BANG BANG Starring Robert Downy Jr & Val Kilmer

Famed screenwriter, Shane Black made his directorial debut in 2005 with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Black’s film, based on Brett Halliday’s novel, Bodies Are Where You Find Them is a near flawless modern noir and the script sizzles with [...]

December 9, 2021

Powerful Trailer For Val Kilmer Documentary VAL

From when he first came to prominence in the 1980s, Val Kilmer has always been an actor who was difficult to pin down. From Real Genius and Top Secret! to Top Gun, The Doors and Batman Forever and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Kilmer has always made [...]

July 7, 2021

Documentary VAL Set To Explore The Life & Career Of The Mighty Val Kilmer

The mighty Val Kilmer is set to be the focus of a new documentary titled, Val which was produced by A24 and acquired by Amazon Studios in the U.S. and Latin America. A24 will distribute the film throughout the rest of the world and there are [...]

May 28, 2021

Mission On Hold: Filming Delayed On MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8

Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 will no longer shoot back-to-back. The delay in M:I 7’s production due to COVID-19 and the delay in the release of Top Gun: Maverick means that Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie have decided to delay [...]

February 17, 2021

Tom Cruise Still Has All The Right Movies

The mighty Tom Cruise’s boyish charm helped propel him to superstardom in the 1980s. He parlayed that success into working with Hollywood’s top directors (Steven Spielberg, Tony Scott, Brian DePalma, Robert Redford, Oliver Stone) starring a [...]

July 3, 2020

Tony Scott Directing Tom Cruise On The Set Of TOP GUN

The late Tony Scott‘s Top Gun mixed orange-tinted cinematography, fast editing and catchy music to deliver a rip-roaring slice of popcorn cinema. It was winning combination which went on to become a staple in Hollywood filmmaking throughout [...]

June 7, 2020

Remembering Shane Black’s KISS KISS BANG BANG

Shane Black’s 2005 directorial debut, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a near flawless modern noir. Black’s script sizzles with wit and one-liners and Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer are perfect as the leads. Kilmer was post-Batman, Downey was [...]

April 24, 2020

Arial Action: Behind-The-Scenes Of TOP GUN: MAVERICK

Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is back in Top Gun: Maverick. The film hits screens in the summer of 2020, but this behind-the-scenes piece shows how they brought the film’s impressive-looking arial action to the big screen. [...]

December 18, 2019

Trailer & Poster: It Looks Like TOP GUN: MAVERICK Will Take Your Breath Away

Topping Tony Scott‘s 1986 popcorn spectacular Top Gun was never going to be easy. However, it looks like Tom Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski are going to give it their best shot with Top Gun: Maverick. The new [...]

December 16, 2019

Trailer & Poster For The Bruckheimer-Lee-Smith Sci-Fi Actioner GEMINI MAN

Movies In Focus is a massive lover of Jerry Bruckheimer’s special brand of action extravaganza. Movies like Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Gone In Sixty Seconds, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, Con Air, Enemy Of The Sate and others – nobody [...]

July 26, 2019

Highway To The Danger Zone: Trailer & Poster For TOP GUN: MAVERICK

We’ve been waiting over thirty years, but Tom Cruise is finally flying back into the danger zone. Cruise returns to the role of Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in Joseph Kosinski’s follow-up to the 1986 smash hit Top Gun. This new [...]

July 19, 2019

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

Cold As Ice: Val Kilmer Is Back For TOP GUN 2

It needed to happen – and it’s finally been confirmed: Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky is back for Top Gun 2. Yes, Val Kilmer will be rejoin Tom Cruise for Top Gun: Maverick. Kilmer is currently hanging with cast and crew in San [...]

June 7, 2018

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