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Focus Features Marks 20th Anniversary with Commemorative Reel

Los Angeles, CA – Friday, March 11, 2022 – For twenty years, Focus Features has united cinema’s most fearless filmmakers and gifted actors to create unforgettable experiences in theaters around the world. To kick-off our two decades of powerful storytelling and remarkable filmmaking, the studio is commemorating the incredible milestone with a new reel, looking back…

Exclusive Video Interview: Cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos on Shooting ‘Belfast’ and Working with Kenneth Branagh

Haris Zambarloukos is no stranger to collaborating with Kenneth Branagh. The two first worked together on Sleuth in 2007, and have joined forces for other projects including Thor, Murder on the Orient Express, and the upcoming sequel Death on the Nile. He’s gaining widespread recognition for one of the leading awards contenders this season, Branagh’s…

‘The Northman’ Trailer Stars Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Björk, and Willem Dafoe in Robert Eggers’ Viking Revenge Tale

Focus Features will release “The Northman” in Theaters on April 22, 2022. Focus Feature has released the first trailer of The Northman, the latest film from The Witch and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers. Eggers’ latest one which taking place in 10th century Iceland, and stars Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, a Viking prince who goes…

An Exclusive Interview with a Lead Actor Jude Hill on “Belfast”

Synopsis : BELFAST is a movie straight from Branagh’s own experience. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the…

Film Review – Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ is a Personal and Poignant Portrayal of His Youth

Can one film serve to truly represent a place? There are many films with titles that reference a city, state, or country. Most often, their contents are not a comprehensive history of that piece of geography but rather a specific moment in time or merely the setting for a story that might as well have…

Last Night in Soho : Video Review / Above the Line vs Below the Line : Episode 17

Above the Line vs Below the Line. Episode 17 : Film Critic vs Film Critic. Film Critic : Edward Douglas Edward Douglas is the Editor at Below the Line, an industry website dedicated to supporting the crew and crafts involved with making movies and television. He writes regular reviews there, as well as feature interviews,…

Last Night in Soho : “Downtown (Downtempo)” Performed by Anya Taylor-Joy, Artwork, Featurette, Trailer, Synopsis

Long Synopsis  If you could go back in time, would you? Should you?  The past is another country, they say. One whose borders are locked. But what if that wasn’t entirely true? What if you could experience another time for yourself, in full sensory overload? That’s the situation for Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) in Edgar Wright’s…

Blue Bayou / Interview : An Exclusive Interview with Actor/Writer/Director Justin Chon 

Synopsis : From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and step-dad to their beloved…

BELFAST : Official Trailer : Starring Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, and Jude Hil

‘BELFAST is the most personal film I have ever made. About a place and a people, I love.’ Kenneth Branagh Focus Features presents Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST. Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Branagh, BELFAST is the humorous, tender and intensely personal story of one boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in…

Film Review – Stillwater Features Matt Damon in a Transformative Performance as a Father Fighting to Free His Daughter

Matt Damon has made a name for himself as one of Hollywood’s leading A-list actors for his portrayal of globe-trotting characters that bend the law to fit their purposes, most notably the title protagonist in the Jason Bourne series, as well as Linus Caldwell in the Ocean‘s trilogy. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker’s latest character who…

Anthony Bourdain’s AI Voiceover in New Documentary Receives Backlash

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, the new documentary that’s celebrating the life of the title celebrity chef, is receiving backlash from audiences over its use of an AI-recorded voiceover from the late star.  Film critics and documentarians are expressing their concern over the ethics of the artificially generated voice on Twitter. In response to…