In the wake of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four, Matthew Lee looks at ten filmmakers who went from Indie Darling to Big Budget Blunder… Josh Trank’s debut, Chronicle, was a surprise hit of 2012. The film fused the found-footage genre with superhero tropes to create a coming-of-age story that was both fresh and exciting. Trank’s ability […]
John Boyega teams with Gavin Hood for The Test
Deadline is reporting that John Boyega has signed on to star in The Test, the next feature from Eye in the Sky and Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. Described as a contained thriller, The Test will follow “a soft-spoken immigrant (Payman Maadi) taking a citizen evaluation test and a brilliant young behavioral psychologist (Boyega) supervising […]
Movie Review – Official Secrets (2019)
Official Secrets, 2019. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma, Rhys Ifans, MyAnna Buring, Tamsin Greig, Conleth Hill, Hattie Morahan, Ray Panthaki, Kenneth Cranham, Chris Larkin, John Heffernan, Shaun Dooley, Katherine Kelly, Jack Farthing, Monica Dolan, Hanako Footman, Clive Francis, Peter Guinness, Chris Reilly, Darrell D’Silva, Lindy […]
Movie Review – Official Secrets (2019)
Official Secrets, 2019. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Adam Bakri, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode, Conleth Hill, Rhys Ifans, Katherine Kelly, Indira Varma, Hattie Morahan and Tamsin Greig. SYNOPSIS: A GCHQ employee leaks a top secret memo to the press in the run-up to the Iraq War, sparking criminal proceedings against her […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Official Secrets
Official Secrets, 2019. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Conleth Hill, MyAnna Buring, Jack Farthing, Katherine Kelly, Adam Bakri, and Tamsin Greig. SYNOPSIS: The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the […]
First trailer for Official Secrets starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode and Ralph Fiennes
Entertainment One has released the first trailer and images for the upcoming thriller Official Secrets. Directed by Gavin Hood, the film tell the true story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), who in 2003 leaked a confidential US National Security Agency email to the Observer in an effort to expose the government. Joining Knightley in the […]
Exclusive interview with Eye in the Sky director Gavin Hood
With modern warfare thriller Eye in the Sky out now in cinemas [read our reviews here and here], Scott J. Davis sat down with director Gavin Hood to discuss the film. Eye in the Sky features a stellar cast including Helen Mirren (Woman In Gold), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and the late Alan Rickman (A Little Chaos), […]
X-Men: The real Apocalypse is its continuity!
Tony Black attempts to make sense of the continuity of the X-Men franchise… Have you ever attempted to make sense of the X-Men movie continuity? As in pick apart the entire timeline of events across the eight, soon to be nine films in the franchise? Of course not, you all have lives. You have friends […]
Second Opinion – Eye in the Sky (2016)
Eye in the Sky, 2016. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Aisha Takow, Phoebe Fox, Gavin Hood, Jeremy Northam, Monica Dolan, Kim Engelbrecht, and Iain Glen. SYNOPSIS: A terrorist group is on surveillance by the military. On this day, the fate of the group is in the hands […]
Movie Review – Eye in the Sky (2016)
Eye in the Sky, 2016. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Aisha Takow, Phoebe Fox, Gavin Hood, Jeremy Northam, Monica Dolan, Kim Engelbrecht, and Iain Glen. SYNOPSIS: The moral implications of sending a drone to eliminate three terrorists on the British military’s top five most wanted list suddenly […]
