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MINDHUNTER Trailer: David Fincher Does Serial Killers For Netflix

Mindhunter sees David Fincher once again tackle serial killers on screen. If the thought of the man who brought you Se7en, Zodiac and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo doing a Netflix show on that subject matter doesn’t float yer boat, then go [...]

August 1, 2017

Trailer For Stephen King’s MR MERCEDES Starring Brendan Gleeson

Mr Mercedes saw Stephen King tackle the tropes of the detective novel and he embraced it whole heartedly (read the Movies In Focus review of the book). It’s cracking yarn – and now it’s hitting TV with Brendan Gleeson in the [...]

July 14, 2017

John Carpenter Develops TALES FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT And NIGHTSIDE

John Carpenter has closed a development deal with Universal Cable Productions to executive produce ‘scripted programming’ for the company. First-up is Tales For A Halloween Night, a horror show for SyFy based on Carpenter’s graphic-novel [...]

July 8, 2017

Blu-ray Review: Tom Hardy Takes A Dark Journey Through A Grimy London In The Exceptional TABOO

Tom Hardy’s Taboo is a totally enthralling experience. This dark and dense eight-part series is filled with grit and gravel. It’s uncompromising in its vision and Hardy’s James Delaney is a dark anti-hero who cuts a brooding figure as he [...]

May 21, 2017

THE X-FILES Returns…Again

Following on from the huge success of 2016’s 6-part revival, The X-Files will return for a new 10-part ‘event series’. The episodes will shoot this summer for a 2017/2018 air date – the last batch of eps hit screens in January, so hedge [...]

April 22, 2017

DVD Review: Things Get Mysterious In THE KETTERING INCIDENT

The Kettering Incident has been compared to The X-Files and Twin Peaks because of its UFO plot-line and off-beat tone. They’re valid comparisons, but this Australian lacks the emotional pull which led to those show becoming so iconic. Having said [...]

April 5, 2017

Don’t Tell Robert Redford! Max Irons Is CONDOR

Sydney Pollack’s Three Days Of The Condor is one of the great films of the 1970s (read the Movies In Focus review). It’s almost flawless and Robert Redford is at his charismatic best in the 1975 thriller, which was based on the novel Six [...]

February 7, 2017

Hey Trump! Schwarzenegger Has An Idea

Movies In Focus’ appreciation of Arnold Schwarzenegger went to a whole new level the other day. Donald Trump has been very presidential, taking pot-shots at the Austrian Oak over the ratings to The Apprentice in the US. Schwarzenegger, the former [...]

February 4, 2017

HOUSE OF CARDS Season 5 Teaser Just In Time For Donald Trump’s Inauguration

It was a smart move by Netflix to drop the teaser for the 5th season of House of Cards on the day that Donald Trump was inaugurated. It’s funny, the Kevin Spacey toplined drama has shown extreme US politics and I get the feeling that what [...]

January 21, 2017

Los Pollos Hermanos: Finger Lickin’ Good Teaser For BETTER CALL SAUL Season 3

Better Call Saul is a much, much better show than Breaking Bad. There, I said it. Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill is just brilliant, a heartbreaking character who eventually becomes Breaking Bad‘s slubbish lawyer Saul Goodman. The slow [...]

January 11, 2017

Blu-ray Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s THE YOUNG POPE Is A Career Highlight For Jude Law

The Young Pope is a Machiavellian drama set within the confines of a modern-day Vatican. Paolo Sorrentino’s ten-part HBO series features Jude Law as Lenny Belardo (aka Pope Pius XIII), a young American cardinal who achieves the highest position [...]

January 7, 2017

Trailer For AMC’s THE SON Starring Pierce Brosnan

Movies In Focus is up for anything starring Pierce Brosnan. He’s able to do drama, action and comedy and he picks interesting projects rather than choosing the most obvious choice. I’m curious about his new AMC series The Son. It’s [...]

December 30, 2016

Tom Wolfe’s THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES Is Coming To Amazon Prime Video

Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities is an epic tome chronicling a diverse set of issues in 1980s New York. Sly, wry and filled with zing, Wolfe’s work is one of the great literary works of the 20th Century. The near 700 page novel (first [...]

October 15, 2016

Blu-ray Review: THE FLASH – THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON

The Flash is a solid entry into the ever growing pantheon of DC Comics titles on television. It’s a well intentioned super-drama with good special effects, but it’s let down by flat visuals which fail to give the show a distinctive visual sheen [...]

September 19, 2016

Blu-ray Review: DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW – THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

Marvel may be racking in the cash on the big screen, but it would seem that DC rules the roost when it comes to television. Gotham, Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and now DC’s Legends of Tomorrow shows that these superheroes are killing it on [...]

September 17, 2016

Blu-ray Review: SUPERGIRL – The Complete First Season

While DC Comics heroes are very serious on the big screen, they’re much lighter and comic-booky on television. Supergirl embraces its comic book roots and keeps things light and breezy – and it’s all the better for it. Melissa Benoist is Kara [...]

July 31, 2016

First Photograph: Superman Joins SUPERGIRL

Supergirl is a show that leans heavily on its connections to Superman (well, she is his cousin). Supes is glimpsed in the show and mentioned throughout, but he isn’t a presence…until now. Melissa Benoist’s Supergirl will now be joined by [...]

July 30, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Martin Scorsese And Mick Jagger Give Us The Disappointing VINYL

We’re living in the new golden age of television, a time that has seen so much rich and detailed long-form storytelling. On a narrative level, television (and all its modern equivalents) has surpassed many feature films and a lot of big screen [...]

June 12, 2016

Pierce Brosnan Takes The Lead In New AMC Series THE SON

The mighty Pierce Brosnan is to take his first US television series since Remington Steele with the historical drama, The Son. Here’s the dope from Deadline: Based on the book by Philipp Meyer and written by Meyer, Lee Shipman and Brian [...]

June 6, 2016

Showtime Commits To A 20 Episode Order Of Daniel Craig’s PURITY

US Cable network Showtime has officially closed a deal to show a 20 episode, two season run of Daniel Craig’s Purity. Todd Field will direct all 20 episodes of the Jonathan Franzen adaptation, which will be written by Field, Franzen and [...]

June 1, 2016

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