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Blu-ray Review: You Need To Hunt Down THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

Joel McCrea and King Kong‘s Faye Wray play the leads in The Most Dangerous Game, a lean and mean 63 minute adventure produced by the legendary RKO Pictures in 1932. Directed by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack, The Most Dangerous Game is [...]

October 10, 2022

CLOSED Competition: Win THE BATMAN On Blu-ray

Unmask the truth behind Gotham City’s vigilante detective and his alter ego, reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne with The Batman, now on Digital Download and 4K, Blu-ray and DVD on 13th June, and to celebrate its release Movies In Focus has two [...]

June 8, 2022

Review: BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION Is An Impressive Retro Chiller

Broadcast Signal Intrusion really delivers on slow creeping atmosphere. Directed by Jacob Gentry and written by Phil Drinkwater and Tim Woodall, it riffs on a few classic movies (The Conversation, Blow Out and Zodiac to name a few) but it’s a [...]

April 5, 2022

Review: THE BATMAN Is A Refreshing But Flawed Take On The Dark Knight

The Batman is the latest big screen incarnation of Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s iconic comic book hero. Over the last 30-odd years there have been multiple film takes on Batman from Tim Burton’s brooding gothic noir and Joel Schumacher’s [...]

March 8, 2022

Behind The Scenes Jake Gyllenhaal & Dan Gilroy On The Set Of NIGHTCRAWLER

Jake Gyllenhaal has littered his career with haunted and broken characters (Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, Zodiac). 2014’s Nightcrawler sees Gyllenhaal play Louis Bloom, a petty criminal who discovers the financial potential in becoming a [...]

September 4, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Charles B. Pierce’s THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN

The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 1976 horror set in the Texas town of Texarkana. The film is based in a loose fashion on the Phantom Killer who haunted Texarkana in 1946. Charles B. Pierce’s thriller is one of the first in the wave of 1970s [...]

April 25, 2021

The Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century…So Far

Movies In Focus was inspired to put together a Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century list after reading the recent piece in Empire which listed the top movies of the century as voted for by the magazine’s readers. It was a pretty damning list [...]

January 21, 2020

Empire Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movies Of The Century Features A Lot Of Serious Duds

Taste is an interesting thing. Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but some people simply don’t have good taste. They’d rather eat at McDonalds than a good restaurant. This list of Empire Magazine’s 100 films of the [...]

January 18, 2020

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

Blu-ray Review: 1976’s THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN Came Before Most Other Slasher Movies

August 4, 2015

DVD Review: Jake Gyllenhaal Prowls The Seedy Streets Of L.A. In NIGHTCRAWLER

Nightcrawler sees Jake Gyllenhaal continue to litter his career with haunted and broken characters (Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, Zodiac). Gyllenhaal plays Louis Bloom, a petty criminal who discovers the financial potential in becoming a video [...]

February 21, 2015

Profile: Robert Downey Jr.

A decade ago nobody would have believed that Robert Downey Jr. would be one of the most bankable stars on the planet. In 2003 the recovering drug addict was a supporting player in dire Halle Berry schlocker, Gothika, while his close friend Mel [...]

April 4, 2013

Play THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

The Most Dangerous Game is a worthwhile watch. The film, based on Richard Connell’s short story follows Zaroff (Leslie Banks), an evil Russian Count who shipwrecks boats near his island and then hunts the survivors for “sport”. Joel McCrea and [...]

July 3, 2012

DIE HARD In The White House

Some mornings you just wake up and discover that you’re back in the 1990s. That can be the only reason for White House Down, a film which disaster master Roland Emmerich is in the frame to direct. According to Deadline the film has been compared [...]

April 3, 2012