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Journey To Night Country: Jodie Foster To Star In TRUE DETECTIVE Season 4

Following in the footsteps of Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell, double Oscar winner Jodie Foster has signed-on to star in (and executive produce) the fourth season of HBO’s True Detective. Foster will play Detective Liz Danvers in the [...]

May 27, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Nic Pizzolatto’s TRUE DETECTIVE – Season 2

Nic Pizzolatto had a tough job following up the masterful first season and the writer/producer could have pleased a lot of people if he’d simply replicated the formula and once again delivered a southern tinged murder mystery. Pizzolatto [...]

December 15, 2021

Notebook Reviews: PSYCHO

Gus Van Sant – 1998. It’s obviously nowhere near as good as Alfred Hitchcock‘s original, but Gus Van Sant‘s updating of Psycho isn’t too bad. This shot-for-shot remake could have been a total disaster, but it manages to [...]

October 30, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Don Jonson, S. Craig Zahler & Mel Gibson On The Set Of DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

Writer/director S. Craig Zahler‘s 2018 film, Dragged Across Concrete plays-out like a cinematic novel. It’s a film with little digressions which expand on supporting characters, unveiling who they are so that we get to know them and [...]

July 5, 2021

Disastrous Screen Duos

From Homer Simpson to Joey Tribbianis, there’s something undeniably great about watching a loveable idiot blunder their way through life. Now, times that childish chaos by two and what do you get? A disastrous duo! We all love a bit of double [...]

January 23, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Nic Pizzolatto & Vince Vaughn On The Set Of TRUE DETECTIVE – SEASON 2

The second season of True Detective offered viewers something very different from the numerous other detective shows on television. Murder, mystery and politics collide in the mighty Nic Pizzolatto’s drama. Cops and criminals are on the same moral [...]

January 13, 2021

Trailer For Stand-up Comedy THE OPENING ACT

We all know that doing stand-up comedy is hard. Very hard. The difficulty of doing the gig is the crux The Opening Act. Produced by Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley, The Opening Act looks like a stand-up version of Sylvester [...]

September 18, 2020

Fun Trailer For Body-Swap Horror-Comedy FREAKY Starring Vince Vaughn & Kathryn Newton

Going by this trailer for horror-comedy Freaky, Vince Vaughn appears to have had a lot fun making it. The body-swap pic from director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day) looks like an absolute blast – and that’s coming from a cinematic [...]

September 11, 2020

Sandwich Time: Vince Vaughn In DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

S. Craig Zahler’s Dragged Across Concrete is a deeply nihilistic tale which adds grit and gravel to the buddy-cop picture. Beautifully crafted and brutal, Dragged Across Concrete is a weighty crime drama with sterling performances from Mel [...]

April 26, 2020

Notebook Reviews: THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK

Steven Spielberg – 1997 Steven Spielberg makes a sub-standard sequel to Jurassic Park. The Lost World: Jurassic Park features are some good set pieces, but this fails to match-up to the 1993 original. The special effects are a tad ropey when [...]

April 18, 2020

Interview: Producer Dallas Sonnier Talks Pushing Boundaries & Making Great Movies Away From Hollywood

Dallas Sonnier is one of the bravest and most exciting film producers working today. Through his company Cinestate, Sonnier he has delivered a roster of punchy movies including the Kurt Russell western Bone Tomahawk, Vince Vaughn crime-thriler Brawl [...]

July 17, 2019

Hey UK! Get Ready For S. Craig Zahler’s DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

Movies In Focus has been flying the flag for S. Craig Zahler’s ‘beautifully bleak’ Dragged Across Concrete since I caught it late last year. Zahler’s film is a wonderfully textured piece of filmmaking, packed with detail and [...]

March 28, 2019

Interview: S. Craig Zahler Discusses DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

S. Craig Zahler is one of the most exciting writer-directors working today. His first two films, Bone Tomahawk and Brawl In Cell Block 99 were gutsy genre movies which also managed delivered great emotion and detail amongst the action. Zahler is [...]

March 20, 2019

Trailer & Poster For Brilliant Mel Gibson & Vince Vaughn Thriller DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

Last year Movies In Focus had the opportunity to view S. Craig Zahler’s beautifully bleak Dragged Across Concrete. The thriller stars Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn as a pair of cops who are suspended after roughing up a suspect. In order to make [...]

February 21, 2019

Review: Mel Gibson & Vince Vaughn Star In S. Craig Zahler’s Beautifully Bleak DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

S. Craig Zahler is a singular voice in cinema, one who is willing to take pulp concepts and craft them into unflinchingly violent features. Bone Tomahawk and Brawl In Cell Block 99 have shown him to be a writer-director who knows how to use genre [...]

October 21, 2018

New Poster For S. Craig Zahler’s Gritty Mel Gibson/Vince Vaughn Thriller DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

Hard-edge director S. Craig Zahler‘s Dragged Across Concrete is totally Movies In Focus‘ jam. Its a gritty cop thriller starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn and the mighty Don Johnson. The film just played the London Film Festival and it [...]

October 17, 2018

Get Your Vince Vaughn And Don Johnson Fix In The Trailer For BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99

I’ve been looking forward to S. Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cell Block 99 since it was first announced – but I’ve known very little about the film. However, I’ve seen this first trailer for the film – and I still [...]

August 29, 2017

Blu-ray Review: Mel Gibson’s HACKSAW RIDGE Is Beautiful And Brutal

Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge is a masterful piece of filmmaking. Gibson’s eye for action is second to none and he has created some of the most impressive battle sequences ever filmed for this WWII drama. The sheer scope of what’s on display is a [...]

May 1, 2017

Mel Gibson Career Update: DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE & DADDY’S HOME 2

The Mel Gibson comeback is now an official thing. Hacksaw Ridge has nabbed 6 Oscar nominations and Gibson recently signed with a new agency (CAA). He has also lined-up two new acting projects. Dragged Across Concrete will see Gibson share the screen [...]

February 4, 2017

Making HACKSAW RIDGE

Mel Gibson makes movies like nobody else working today. See how he managed to make Hacksaw Ridge – one of the most critically acclaimed films of the last year in the below featurette. Hacksaw Ridge starring Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, [...]

January 18, 2017

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