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Journey To Night Country: Jodie Foster To Star In TRUE DETECTIVE Season 4

Following in the footsteps of Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell, double Oscar winner Jodie Foster has signed-on to star in (and executive produce) the fourth season of HBO’s True Detective. Foster will play Detective Liz Danvers in the [...]

May 27, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Nic Pizzolatto’s TRUE DETECTIVE – Season 2

Nic Pizzolatto had a tough job following up the masterful first season and the writer/producer could have pleased a lot of people if he’d simply replicated the formula and once again delivered a southern tinged murder mystery. Pizzolatto [...]

December 15, 2021

The Great Leonard Cohen

The great Leonard Cohen was a novelist, poet, actor, artist, singer, songwriter and a gentleman. He created a body of work that that will be forever cherished and prized amongst those who admire him. Cohen had a respectability that few could match [...]

September 21, 2021

Trailer: Johnny Depp & Forest Whitaker Hit The Mean Streets Of L.A. In CITY OF LIES

Here’s the trailer for City Of Lies, Brad Furman’s thriller about the investigation into the murder of The Notorious B.I.G. The film hits US cinemas on 19 March 2021 before debuting On Demand on 9 April 2021. Johnny Depp and Forest [...]

March 9, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Nic Pizzolatto & Vince Vaughn On The Set Of TRUE DETECTIVE – SEASON 2

The second season of True Detective offered viewers something very different from the numerous other detective shows on television. Murder, mystery and politics collide in the mighty Nic Pizzolatto’s drama. Cops and criminals are on the same moral [...]

January 13, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Kevin Greutert’s JACKALS

With an creepy opening ripped straight from John Carpenter’s Halloween (with a touch of Michael Mann’s Manhunter), Jackals gets off to a good start. This 2017 home invasion/siege movie gives you everything you could want from a genre film [...]

November 21, 2020

New TRUE DETECTIVE Trailer Puts The Focus On Mahershala Ali

This new trailer for the third season of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective really makes it look like a return to what everyone loved about Season One (country setting, multiple timelines, 2 dudes in a car). Mahershala Ali appears to be doing [...]

November 3, 2018

Trailer: Jonah Hill & Emma Stone Reunite For Netflix’s MANIAC

Cary Fukunaga directs Maniac, a new mind-bending series for Netflix that reunites Superbad co-stars Jonah Hill and Emma Stone. This is one hell of a quirky trailer for the series, which drops on the streaming service on 21 September. But might [...]

September 13, 2018

Trailer For Season Three Of Nic Pizzolatto’s TRUE DETECTIVE

You won’t find a bigger True Detective defender than Movies In Focus. I adored the first two seasons of Nic Pizzolallto’s anthology series and both offered-up a freshness to the detective story, while also keeping the much needed genre [...]

September 1, 2018

DVD Review: JACKALS Is Dark, Bloody And Very Entertaining

With an creepy opening ripped straight from John Carpenter’s Halloween (with a touch of Michael Mann’s Manhunter), Jackals gets off to a good start. This home invasion/siege movie gives you everything you could want from a genre film – [...]

June 10, 2018

TRUE DETECTIVE Season 3 Continues To Shape Up; Stephen Dorff Joins The Cast

Stephen Dorff (remember him?) has been cast opposite Mahershala Ali and Carmen Ejogo in season three of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective. The first season starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson drew raves from critics, but season two [...]

January 3, 2018

Get Your Bongos Out: Matthew McConaughey’s Top Roles

It’s no secret that Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey’s career has gone from strength to strength. Since his first breakout role in Dazed and Confused in 1993, he quickly became the go-to lead in romantic comedies in much loved film’s [...]

June 8, 2017

Rejoice: It Looks Like We Might Finally Get TRUE DETECTIVE Season 3!

It looks like the mighty Nic Pizzolatto could finally give us True Detective Season 3. According to EW, Pizzolatto has written two episodes in a potential third season of the detective show and David Milch (NYPD Blue, Deadwood) has come [...]

March 29, 2017

Obituary: Death Of A Ladies Man – Leonard Cohen 1934 – 2016

Leonard Cohen was a novelist, poet, actor, artist, singer, songwriter and a gentleman. He created a body of work that that will be forever cherished and prized amongst those who admire him. Cohen had a respectability that few could match and I [...]

November 12, 2016

Trailer For THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN With Denzel Washington And Chris Pratt Has No Surprises

This trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven delivers exactly what you would expect. I’m not sure if this is a must-see flick, but I’m sure I’ll catch it at some point. The cast is interesting – I’ll give it that. Oh, and [...]

April 21, 2016

Blu-ray Review: TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Is A Dark And Complex Noir From Nic Pizzolatto

Nic Pizzolatto had a tough job following up the masterful first season of True Detective. The writer/producer could have pleased a lot of people if he’d replicated the formula for the follow-up and once again delivered a southern tinged murder [...]

January 16, 2016

Blu-ray Review: THE KILLING SEASONS 1-4 – Feels Like The Same World As TRUE DETECTIVE

Based on the Danish show Forbrydelsen, The Killing is a top notch crime drama with enough weight and originality to keep you watching over the course of this season set. The first two seasons follows Seattle detectives Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) [...]

November 30, 2015

Trailer And Poster For Cary Fukunaga’s BEASTS OF NO NATION; Idris Elba Stars In The Netflix Movie

Cary Fukunaga helped change the face of television by directing the wonderful first season of True Detective. His latest film, Beasts Of No Nation is a new Netflix original starring Idris Elba that drops globally on October 16, 2015. Based on the [...]

September 5, 2015

You Get The Show You Deserve: Defending TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2

Nic Pizzolatto ripped apart the conventions of the detective story and rebuilt it from the ground up with the first season of True Detective. Not only did it feature ridiculously powerful performances from Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, [...]

July 25, 2015

Book Review: TASCHEN’s FAVOURITE TV SHOWS – THE TOP SHOWS OF THE LAST 25 YEARS

Television has become as important as cinema. Long form storytelling is now a powerful way to tell sprawling narratives and recent times have seen a rise in high quality shows, many of which surpass the writing of what’s playing on the big [...]

July 12, 2015

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