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Trailer For TV’s LETHAL WEAPON: High Expectations And None Of The Spark

I can’t be objective about this new trailer for the Lethal Weapon TV series. Richard Donner’s four films are so ingrained into my cinematic psyche that I just want to see Mel Gibson and Danny Glover do their buddy thing as Riggs and [...]

May 21, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Lewis Collins And Martin Shaw Are Bodie And Doyle THE PROFESSIONALS MkIV

Get ready to roll over the bonnet of your Ford Capri – the fourth season of The Professionals MkIV has hit blu-ray! The Brian Clemons created show is a must for nostalgists – and this digitally spruced up disc set from Network is an [...]

April 30, 2016

Big Bad Don: Sylvester Stallone Heads To TV With Mario Puzo’s OMERTA

Hollywood has shifted in such a way that moving to TV is no longer seen as the end of your career, in fact it’s now seen as a way to improve your career. The latest big screen star to hit the box is Sylvester Stallone. The Italian Stallion is [...]

April 30, 2016

John Krasinski To Play Tom Clancy’s JACK RYAN In New Amazon Series

John Krasinski is the new Jack Ryan. The former Office star will play Tom Clancy’s CIA Analyst in the new Amazon TV series. This Michael Bay produced series will have a new continuity from the movies which saw Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben [...]

April 30, 2016

Mel Gibson And Kurt Russell Team For Epic TV Series THE BARBARY COAST

This must be one of the most exciting stories that Movies In Focus has covered in the four years the site has been going. Mel Gibson will re-team with his Tequila Sunrise co-star Kurt Russell for The Barbary Coast, a new television series set during [...]

April 18, 2016

DVD Review: Netflix’s BLOODLINE Is A Slow-Burning Top-Tier Soap Opera

The first season of Nextflix’s Bloodline is a slow-burning drama, that draws viewers in as each episode builds to offer reveals which help unwrap the central mystery. Strong performances and sunny visuals keep it afloat despite the fact that [...]

April 2, 2016

LETHAL WEAPON: Clayne Crawford Is The New Mel Gibson

Clayne Crawford is the new Martin Riggs. Crawford has been cast as the lead in the TV reboot of Lethal Weapon, taking on the role made famous by Mel Gibson in Dick Donner’s seminal action franchise. Movies In Focus is against the idea of a Lethal [...]

March 12, 2016

Tom Hardy Goes Native In The Trailer For The BBC’s TABOO

The constantly busy Tom Hardy reteams with Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Locke) for Taboo, a new BBC drama that Hardy and Knight are producing with Ridley Scott. That impressive pedigree gives Taboo a lot of potential and it looks like it will be [...]

February 27, 2016

Official Trailer For Marvel’s DAREDEVIL Season 2 Adds The Punisher

Netflix’s Daredevil hit the spot in down and dirty comic book way. Was it mind-blowing? No, but it had enough good moments to make you come back for a second season. Here’s the trailer for season two, which hits the streaming channel on March [...]

February 15, 2016

Go Behind The Music With The Trailer For Cameron Crowe’s TV Show ROADIES

I haven’t connected with any of Cameron Crowe’s movies on a huge level since Vanilla Sky in 2001 (my god, is that really 15 years ago?). But I won’t give up on the man who had a streak that contained Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous and the [...]

February 13, 2016

Get The Flock Out Of Here! Damon Wayans Cast As Roger Murtaugh In The LETHAL WEAPON TV Series

I hoped it would never happen – but casting for the new Lethal Weapon TV series has now snagged Damon Wayans for Roger Murtaugh, the role originated by Danny Glover in Richard Donner’s seminal 1987 actioner. McG will direct the pilot that [...]

February 13, 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

DVD Review: The BBC’s AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Is A Hugely Satisfying Whodunnit

The BBC has delivered a wonderful TV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Sarah Phelps writes and Craig Viveiros directs this three-part thriller which features an impressive line-up of actors (Charles Dance, Sam Neill, Toby [...]

January 9, 2016

Bad News For GAME OF THRONES Fans: Publication of THE WINDS OF WINTER Is Delayed

George R.R. Martin has some bad news for Game Of Thrones fans – The Winds Of Winter will not be published in time for the launch of the show’s sixth season. It means that for the first time ever, readers of the Song Of Ice And Fire books [...]

January 2, 2016

More Jon Snow Teasing In GAME OF THRONES Season 6 Trailer

Here’s another Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) tease for Game Of Thrones season 6. There’s nothing new on display, but it lets you know that the show is coming back for its rumoured penultimate season. What does it all mean? Game Of Thrones starring [...]

December 5, 2015

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

It’s Snow Joke: HBO Teases With New GAME OF THRONES Poster

Is he or isn’t he? This teaser poster for HBO’s Game Of Thrones doesn’t clear-up the Jon Snow question left hanging after the finale of the show’s fifth season. Kit Harrington was seen on the show’s Belfast set – [...]

November 23, 2015

New TV Spots Shine More Light On THE X-FILES Reboot

January 2016 sees The X-Files return to television screens for the first time since 2002. Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) will be taking on conspiracies and monsters in the new 6-part event series and it looks like it’s going [...]

November 1, 2015

Title And Poster For ‘Abominable’ Victorian Special Of SHERLOCK

The Victorian-set special for Sherlock has been without a title until now. This changed with the announcement that the feature length episode will be called The Abominable Bride. I don’t know if that gives away much of the plot – but it [...]

October 25, 2015

Uncover The Truth With New Poster And TV Spot For THE X-FILES

The return of The X-Files is just a few months away – and here’s a new TV spot and poster showing a familiar character (William B. Davis’ Cancer Man). David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their iconic roles as Agent Fox Mulder [...]

October 20, 2015

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