van morrison

Bring Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST Home This April

A huge hit with critics and audiences alike, Kenneth Branagh‘s Belfast is a semi-autobiographical tale about growing up in the city as the violence of ‘the troubles’ spread across Northern Ireland in the late 1960s. Written and [...]

March 7, 2022

Irish Academy Awards: The 2022 IFTA Nominations

Belfast and An Cailín Ciúin lead the nominations for the 2022 Irish Academy Awards. Both films have scored 10 nods each, while Who We Love, Swan Song and You Are Not My Mother have 6 nominations. Break-out hit, Deadly Cuts was next having [...]

February 22, 2022

Watch The First 6 Minutes Of Kenneth Branagh’s Brilliant BELFAST

Opening with a sumptuous montage of modern day Belfast, set to the strains of Van Morrison’s song Down To Joy, Kenneth Branagh’s regular cinematographer, Haris Zambarloukos, switches to luscious monochrome as we fall back into the [...]

February 10, 2022

Academy Awards 2022: A Full List Of Oscar Nominations

Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leads the charge at this year’s Academy Awards. The Netflix western scored 12 nominations including Best Director for Campion. Campion is now the first woman to have been nominated for best director [...]

February 10, 2022

Review: Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST Is Heartfelt And Emotionally Powerful

A wondrously nostalgic look at his childhood, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is a heartfelt and emotionally powerful piece of cinema. Branagh has crafted a film where whimsy and realism sit side-by-side so the viewer can visit a Belfast which is as [...]

January 24, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Martin Scorsese’s THE LAST WALTZ

Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz opens with the declaration that ‘This film should be played loud!’. And it really should. Scorsese’s film charting The Band’s farewell concert at San Francisco’s Winterland [...]

May 19, 2021

Van Morrison – LATEST RECORD PROJECT: VOLUME 1

Never one to rest on his laurels, The mighty Van Morrison was never going to spend lockdown baking bread and watching box sets. The Belfast born star spent the period writing and recording his 42nd record – which is now set for release on 7 [...]

March 5, 2021

Forget The New Normal! Van Morrison Tells Us That We Were BORN TO BE FREE

‘The new normal is not normal, it’s no kind of normal at all‘ – there we have some lyrics from the mighty Van Morrison‘s latest musical release, Born To Be Free. The track is the first of three new tracks in response [...]

September 26, 2020

Trailer For Music Documentary ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND

One of the greatest groups of all-time, The Band delivered a scorching selection of music across their work and their music with Bob Dylan, right-up to their legendary swan song which was beautifully captured in Martin Scorsese’s The Last [...]

July 15, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Martin Scorsese Joins Forces With The Band For Musical Masterpiece THE LAST WALTZ

November 7, 2018

Blu-ray Review: The Belfast Cowboy Rides Again With VAN MORRISON: IN CONCERT

Few musical artists have experienced the freedom which Van Morrison has enjoyed throughout his half-century career. As an artist and businessman, he’s played by his own rules since he sprung into the spotlight as part of Them in the 1960s. [...]

February 26, 2018

Trailer For Netflix’s OUR SOULS AT NIGHT Starring Robert Redford And Jane Fonda

Our Souls At Night is pure Movies In Focus fodder. I’m all over this new trailer – right down to the Van Morrison soundtrack. Good to see that Robert Redford is still rocking his trademark blue short. Fifty years since playing newlyweds [...]

September 13, 2017

ALWAYS NOW Shows Van Morrison Down On Cyprus Avenue

Last September Van Morrison played two concerts on Belfast’s (now legendary) Cyprus Avenue to mark his 70th birthday. Movies In Focus attended one of the gigs (you can glimpse me in one of the shots), which had a great party vibe despite a bit of [...]

June 19, 2016