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Blu-ray Review: THE TIME TUNNEL Is Classic 1960s TV Sci-Fi

Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel is a glorious piece of 1960s television. The sci-fi show, which ran from 1966-1967 sees Robert Colbert and James Darren as Doug and Tony, two men working on an experimental US government time travel operation called [...]

December 3, 2018

Bill Clinton Comes To Town In These Behind The Scenes Pics From DERRY GIRLS

Movies In Focus hails from the great Irish city of Derry. Therefore I was always going to have someone on the ground when Derry Girls started shooting its second series in the city. Lisa McGee’s show was a huge hit when it aired on Channel 4 [...]

November 17, 2018

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

It’s HAMMER Time This November On The Horror Channel

This November the UK’s Horror Channel is celebrating horror cinema at its finest with a Hammer Classics Seasons. The channel is embracing the best of horror by showing The Abominable Snowman, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy [...]

October 23, 2018

DVD Review: THE GOODIES – THE COMPLETE BBC COLLECTION

Monty Python meets The Monkees – that’s the easy pitch for classic ’70s comedy show, The Goodies. Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie are the trio of do gooders (or should that be goodies) in this huge collection which [...]

October 1, 2018

Trailer For Netflix’s THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

Mike Flanagan directs The Haunting of Hill House, the new Netflix series adaptation of Shriley Jackson’s novel. The book has been adapted before – first as Robert Wise’s The Haunting in 1963, and then in 1999 by Jan de Bont (boy, I [...]

September 19, 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

Everybody’s Russian In Matthew Weiner’s THE ROMANOFFS

Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner’s The Romanoffs is made up of eight separate stories about people who all believe they are descendants of the Russian royal family. This looks quirky – and you just know that it’s going to be [...]

August 14, 2018

DVD Review: ROMPER STOMPER Proves There’s More To Aussie TV Than Neighbours And Home & Away

Those thinking that Australian television begins and ends with Neighbours and Home And Away are going to be mightily surprised by Geoffrey Wright’s Romper Stomper. A follow-up to Wright’s 1992 break-out film, this six part series looks at [...]

June 16, 2018

The End Is Nigh: First Images From Kevin Spacey Free HOUSE OF CARDS Season 6

House Of Cards was well on the decline before Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct in 2017. Despite its downward spiral, once Spacey’s dark side was in the open it looked like the show might never get a proper finish (production was [...]

June 11, 2018

It’s Good To Be King: CASTLE ROCK Teaser Trailer

Movies In Focus is all jazzed for Castle Rock. I have a deep appreciation for Stephen King that reaches beyond my Derry/English teacher connections into something much deeper. Having said all that – I’m finding this teaser for the J.J. [...]

May 2, 2018

Get Back To The Upside Down: STRANGER THINGS Season 3 Starts Shooting

Movies In Focus‘ often grouchy disposition means that I shouldn’t really dig Netflix’s Stranger Things. However, I love the feel, the tone and the overall vibe of the Duffers Brothers show. I think that the second season was even [...]

April 28, 2018

Making A Female Version Of HIGH FIDELITY Is A Terrible Idea

What came first – the news of the all-female High Fidelity reboot or the misery? High Fidelity really doesn’t need to be remade from a woman’s perspective. Stephen Frear’s film (and source material by Nick Hornby) was perfectly good from a [...]

April 7, 2018

CLOSED Competition: Win BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY – THE COMPLETE SERIES On Blu-ray

To celebrate the blu-ray release of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century The Complete Series, Movies In Focus is giving away 2 copies of the classic sci-fi show on Blu-ray to 2 lucky readers of the site The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of [...]

March 20, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Watching RIVIERA Is Like Watching Somebody Else’s Holiday Video

As soon as it hit screens, Neil Jordan announced he was unhappy with how Riviera turned out, stating that he only wrote the first two episodes (along with John Banville) and those scripts were subsequently rewritten by unknown others once the [...]

September 30, 2017

DVD Review: Kiefer Sutherland Is The US President In DESIGNATED SURVIVOR Season 1

Punchy and incredibly watchable, Designated Survivor delivers on all fronts as entertaining television. Kiefer Sutherland anchors the show with a restrained but strong performance, which lets him show a different style and range from his trademark [...]

September 16, 2017

Blu-ray Review: SUPERGIRL – The Complete Second Season Flies High

Supergirl continues to deliver light thrills and frolics, once again showing that superheroes (and even superheroines) can be fun in the 21st Century. Melissa Benoist’s Kara Zor-El (aka Kara Danvers aka Supergirl) is a spirited heroine and she’s [...]

August 29, 2017

Michael Douglas & Alan Arkin Go To Netflix For New Comedy Series THE KOMINSKY METHOD

Week by week it seems that Netflix continues to keep Movies In Focus as a loyal customer. Last week we got the teaser for Our Souls at Night and now comes the news that Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin will be joining forces with Two And A Half Men [...]

August 14, 2017

DC Universe’s Best TV Villains

The DC universe is crazed, unrelenting and chaotic, a universe filled with do-gooders and villains, humans and aliens, and all-round eccentric characters. With the rise and defeat of well-established villains in the DC universe, there are a whole [...]

August 8, 2017

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