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I'm a film journalist and comedy writer. Career highlights so far? Shaking Werner Herzog's hand, disrupting a David Cronenberg interview with an antique Dictaphone and getting chased by the Western Norway Film Commission in a speedboat. I also run the daily news blog at location filming specialist The Location Guide. Drop me a line at nick.goundry@gmail.com.
The late River Phoenix is set to return to cinema screens with Dark Blood, a thriller that was the actor’s final film. In fact Phoenix died with nearly two weeks still to shoot on the production in 1993 and as a result the movie was all but abandoned. It’s only been restored and ‘completed’ recently [...]
Tom Cruise is hauling his 50-year-old, somehow-still-ripped, self back onto cinema screens in December for thriller Jack Reacher. The full-length trailer was launched this week and, for people approaching this one without having read the popular series of novels, it focuses on a sort of justice-seeking loner with a background in military policing. Naturally the [...]
We’ll be spoilt for choice when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey reaches cinemas in December. You’ll have the option of watching it in 3D, in an IMAX theatre, occasionally at 48 frames per second (which, if the early reports are to be believed, makes everything look more real), and also in a bog-standard, normal-sized cinema [...]
American TV really can’t get enough of Brilliant Eccentrics. The experts who sort-of freelance for the police and routinely outwit criminals by combining misleading interpretations of exotic-sounding psychological conditions and/or A Unique Understanding Of The Criminal Mind with unconventional social skills. That last one is the bringer of light entertainment in a way that borders [...]
Why is it that an airport terminal is now a more exhilarating place to hang out than a multiplex cinema? Those vast, cavernous entrance halls are devoid of anything resembling personality, with featureless ticket-checking zones, blank-looking staff dressed in garish uniforms and a faint smell of disinfectant. Then there are airports, which are a surprisingly [...]
The drug trade has elbowed its way into multiplexes again this week with Savages. Oliver Stone delivers a tale of two young Californians making a tidy living in the pot-growing business until they cross paths with a corrupt DEA agent and a brutal Mexican cartel. Over the years Stone’s carved a reputation as a rebel-rousing [...]
Right now TV is giving cinema a serious run for its money. Budgets have risen for small-screen productions and home audience sizes have swelled, while the writing is growing more ambitious and epic in scale. Some of Hollywood’s highest-profile producers are still getting involved as they shoehorn TV projects into their glittering film careers. Upcoming [...]
Mythic Folk Heroes have returned to our cinema screens in Lawless, starring Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf as siblings running a bootlegging operation in Prohibition-era Virginia. The tagline concisely outlines who we’re supposed to root for: ‘When the law became corrupt, outlaws became heroes’. Which is a more poetic way of saying ‘Yes, yes, okay, [...]
Shia LaBeouf has thought of an eye-catching way to escape the shadow of alien robot movies. Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier will apparently film some real ‘erotic material’ involving the young star in his new feature The Nymphomaniac. LaBeouf’s developed a bit of a rebellious streak after surviving three movies where he had Michael Bay [...]
The Watch has arrived in cinemas and annoyingly it’s a predictable offering from some of Hollywood’s biggest comedy names. Routine is the buzzword here. While Richard Ayoade makes his US feature acting debut Ben Stiller gives us his nervy everyman, Vince Vaughn is a scoundrel with a heart and Jonah Hill is the funny weirdo. [...]
Reshoots, improvising on a massive budget and the search for an ending. Hollywood once again needs a fix or three. A litany of reshoots are taking place on some big upcoming movies as filmmakers try to tie up loose ends and find some structure in their summer event movies. Epic zombie drama World War Z [...]
Darren Aronofsky may be looking to redefine the modern epic in New York State. The Black Swan director is working on his new film, biblical drama Noah, which stars Russell Crowe as the eponymous boat-builder. As fans of epic storytelling will know all too well, Noah and his ark are pretty much a package deal [...]
Citizen Kane dethroned, disappointment for Robert Downey Jr and a film critic discovers modern cinema. The votes are in and it’s official: Citizen Kane is no longer the greatest movie of all time. In the BFI’s esteemed Sight & Sound 2012 poll – it’s done every ten years – no fewer than 846 Filmy Types [...]
The writing could be on the wall for James Bond. His spectacular Olympics stunt is likely to have caused a furore for Movie MI6. Bond made a trip to Buckingham Palace in broad daylight and exchanged a few brief words with The Queen herself in front of a massive film crew. He then smirked at [...]
Nolan signs off, Marvel delivers space raccoons and Bruce Wayne considers a more relaxed future. The Dark Knight has risen and Christopher Nolan has signed off on his Batman trilogy. It’s been an eventful trip from Joel Schumacher’s gaudy neon and fetishistic bat suits. Nolan leaves us in a Gotham where interrogation scenes have political [...]
On planetary destruction, misinterpreting Mayan texts and tackling computer-generated disasters. The end of the world, this week, is low-key. Male strippers dominate cinemas right now in Magic Mike, but there’s drama of a different sort in Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World. It’s the story of Steve Carell and Keira Knightley figuring [...]
Why The Amazing Spider-Man is the same but (slightly) different. The Spider-Man universe may have a bunch of eclectic stories waiting to be told, but Sony has decided to play it safe and simply start the series again. Okay, so there’s more focus on Peter ‘n’ Gwen’s relationship, and Peter Parker’s mum and dad get [...]
The search for anonymous goons with guns starts here. Matthew McConaughey has made an eye-catching statement of intent with his slimy turn in Killer Joe, suggesting he’s more than just a square jaw and a chiselled torso. Until next week, of course, when Magic Mike reaches these shores and his chiselled torso once again takes [...]
Turning a movie into the latest theme park ride is perhaps one of the ultimate Hollywood back-slaps. Nothing expresses a lasting cinematic legacy quite like a three-hour queue and a novelty roller coaster carriage culminating in a 30-second nausea-inducing thrill ride sometimes amped up with glorious digital 3D. A lot of the time it’s just [...]
A zombie apocalypse meets freestyle rap and Bruce Willis sings a power ballad. If you’re feeling in the mood for a financial-philosophical drama starring a pretty terrific Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis may be for you. Prepare, though, to be baffled and inspired in equal measure. On the other end of the scale is Rock of Ages, [...]