Filmmaking Articles by Nick Goundry
Q&A with director Daniele LuchettiAs My Brother is an Only Child comes to DVD, we talk to the Italian director about improvisation, surviving drive-by shootings and not caring about the...
How the Superheroes Saved the Stars It’s clear that Edward Norton decided to make the most of The Incredible Hulk. An acclaimed character actor who won an Oscar nomination on only his second film - 1997’s Primal Fear - his casting in Universal’s second stab at the Hulk franchise was a...
Casey Affleck on Gone Baby Gone“I didn’t want it to feel like he could’ve gotten someone better,” Casey Affleck says simply, as he recalls pondering whether to take the lead in his brother Ben’s directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone. He adds: “He probably could’ve got someone ...
Hollywood Vs The Original IdeaThe release of Jessica Alba vehicle The Eye, is the latest in a long line of US remakes of relatively recent Far-Eastern hits. For all their individual merits, remakes represent perhaps the most cynical side of Hollywood film production. Over recent...
“Sly’s seen it … lovely to get his blessing!”Mild motion-sickness isn’t perhaps the first thing you expect to feel in north London’s Holborn Studios. That’s until you realize that much of the office-space is actually located on converted barges, with a gently bobbing quay providing a walkway...
Box-Office BloodThe scene takes place in an East Coast lake-house. Ann is an affluent middleclass mother, and right now she is fast approaching the limits of emotional endurance. Tormented, along with her husband and young son, by two well-spoken young sociopaths,...
One Man, His Dog and a CG Apocalypse‘Infected’ is the horror genre’s buzzword for the 21st Century. Big-budget film productions are gradually backing away from the classical monsters that defined early horror, the studios apparently fearful of kitsch, B-movie associations and...
Game Over, ManMichael Davis' Shoot 'Em Up (out on DVD in January) demonstrates a more progressive side of the relationship between video-games and cinema. With companies such as Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo competing fiercely for market-supremacy, the pressure...
The War on Terror Meets the Hollywood EndingThe ongoing War on Terror doesn't play by the Hollywood rulebook. The current lack of anything resembling a final act means that there are plenty of questions, accusations and statistics, but no closure in sight. As with Vietnam the cultural impact...
