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Notebook Reviews: MOONLIGHTING – The Pilot

Robert Butler – 1985 What can you say about this feature length pilot episode for the greatest television show of the 1980s? Bruce Willis was born to play wise-cracking Private Detective David Addison and he makes for a great foil against [...]

September 19, 2020

Biff! Bam! Pow! BATMAN

Debuting on US television in 1966, Batman was a phenomenon, its high camp and star-studded villains (Julie Newmar, Frank Gorshin, Caesar Romero and Vincent Price to name a few) made it a hit with adults and children alike. Partnered with Burt [...]

August 17, 2020

Trailer For Ridley Scott’s HBO Max Series RAISED BY WOLVES

When he’s not cranking out movies at an amazingly regular rate, 82 year old Ridley Scott also dabbles in producing television series. His latest is Raised By Wolves, a new sci-fi series which will debut on HBO Max. Scott helmed the first [...]

August 6, 2020

The Mighty Thomas Jane Takes The Lead In TROPPO

The mighty Thomas Jane will star in and executive produce a new crime drama series titled, Troppo. The show is based on Candice Fox’s novel, Crimson Lake. According to Deadline, ‘‘Troppo, Jane stars as an ex-cop falsely accused of [...]

August 6, 2020

Nicolas Cage Is TIGER KING’S Joe Exotic

The mighty Nicolas Cage has scored the role he was potentially born to play. Cage will play Joe Schreibvogel, a.k.a Joe Exotic, the subject of Netflix’s Tiger King in a a new eight-part series for Imagine Television. Based on Leif [...]

May 8, 2020

Road To Hell: Halloween’s David Gordon Green Taking HELLRAISER To HBO

Horrormeister Clive Barker‘s Hellraiser continues to impress more than thirty years on. Barker’s own 1987 adaptation of his novella The Hellbound Heart offers-up a baroque gothic horror wrapped within the confines of a warped family [...]

April 28, 2020

Trailer For The Robert Downey Jr Produced PERRY MASON Reboot

This trailer for HBO’s reboot of Perry Mason looks very different to the original Raymond Burr series which aired from 1957 to 1966 and subsequent the TV movies in the ’80s and 90s. Matthew Rhys plays the brilliant defence lawyer in this [...]

April 18, 2020

Greece Is The Word: Trailer For Michael Winterbottom’s THE TRIP TO GREECE Starring Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon

On 22 May, IFC Films will release the Steve Coogan/Rob Brydon comedy The Trip To Greece on VOD in the United States. The Michael Winterbottom film is the fourth in the series, continuing-on from 2010’s The Trip, The Trip To Italy, (2014) and [...]

April 9, 2020

Netflix’s TIGER KING: MURDER, MAYHEM & MADNESS Shows That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Like many, Movies In Focus is locked-down and loaded, keeping a low profile and waiting for the Coronavirus to run its course so that normality (or what’s left of it) can resume. Netflix is obviously getting a good workout at the moment and [...]

March 31, 2020

First Full Trailer For Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss’ DRACULA Has Some Serious Bite

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one tale that can stand multiple interpretations. From F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu to Todd Browning’s Dracula through to Christopher Lee‘s iconic turn and beyond, it’s a character that can be [...]

December 14, 2019

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

Harrison Ford Takes The Lead In New True-Life Murder Mystery Series THE STAIRCASE

Over the last several years there have been a lot of great true-life crime documentaries. One of the best of these is Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s The Staircase, which which followed the trial of novelist Michael Peterson, who was accused of [...]

November 23, 2019

Easy Bubba! They’ve Only Gone And Decided To Bring Back NASH BRIDGES

You won’t find a bigger fan of Don Johnson than Movies In Focus. Forget the current ‘golden age of television’ Miami Vice and Nash Bridges are where TV really peaked. There are rumblings that Don Johnson will be stepping back into [...]

November 16, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Flying The Flagg For The Classic 1990s Miniseries of Stephen King’s THE STAND

Clocking-in at over a mind-boggling 800 pages, Stephen King’s 1978 sci-fi/horror novel, The Stand is an epic battle of good versus evil. This TV miniseries was also an epic event when it first aired in 1994, garnering huge viewing figures and [...]

October 16, 2019

Blu-ray Review: The World Of Stephen King Comes Together In CASTLE ROCK

Castle Rock is an assemblage of different Stephen King characters, locations and themes stirred together into its own unique and original story. Set in King’s fictional Maine town, this 10 part series is a New England chowder of a show – [...]

September 8, 2019

From Book To Small Screen

Not all book adaptations are worth your while, and some you may not have known were adaptations at all, but when they do work it can help you love the original material even more. So much so, you’ll want to watch and read them over and over again! [...]

August 17, 2019