Posts by Matt Patches
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Brothers in BRONG: How Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan Make the Boldest Scores in Hollywood
There wasn’t a movie when Christopher Nolan asked the composer Hans Zimmer to compose the music for ‘Interstellar.’
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‘The Gambler’ Director Rupert Wyatt on How to Pull Off a Remake (Plus: the Premiere of the Movie’s Trailer)
Rupert Wyatt’s ‘The Gambler’ bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor, whole moments seemingly lifted from James Toback’s original script. But put side by side, the remake and the ’74 film resemble a double helix, intertwined and antithetical. We spoke to Wyatt about his film, one of the year’s few character-driven studio features, and its relationship with the original.
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Excessive Forces: The Mad Genius Stuntmen Behind Keanu Reeves’s Dead-Dog Revenge Thriller ‘John Wick’
Talking to veteran stuntmen Chad Stahelski and David Leitch about their shoot-’em-up directorial debut, ‘John Wick.’
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Blood, Guts, Bullets, and Unproduced Screenplays: The Real and Incomplete Movies of Joe Carnahan
For a rambunctious filmmaker like Joe Carnahan, transparency is another story to tell, adding layers to scripts that escape the garage. This is the story of the movies he’s made and the ones that aren’t quite in the world. Yet.
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How Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett Distilled ‘Re-Animator,’ ‘The Stepfather,’ John Woo, and More Into ‘The Guest’
Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett are a pair of walking film encyclopedias — as proficient in bargain-bin cult movies as auteurs of the world — and everything they adore is detectable in ‘The Guest.’ It’s an explosion of ’80s color, character, and kitsch, nostalgia without feeling nostalgic.
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Q&A: Josh Charles on Life After ‘The Good Wife,’ ‘Sports Night,’ and Movies vs. TV
Without further commitment to ‘The Good Wife,’ a blank slate could mean more Josh Charles–led French films. It could not. Anything is on the table.
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Q&A: Powers Boothe on ‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For,’ ‘Deadwood,’ and His Heavy Career
We spoke to the veteran actor about countering typecasting, the quintessential David Milch moment, and how he took Jean-Claude Van Damme’s hockey movie very seriously.
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Darrell Hammond Remembers Don Pardo, the Voice of ‘SNL’
Pardo, the audible soul of SNL, died on Monday at the age of 96.
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My ‘SNL’: Testimonials From Cast Members Who Lived It
To pierce the ever-strengthening history of ‘SNL,’ we asked cast members from across the show’s four decades for anecdotes that would best describe their personal experience. Here, their answers in their own words.
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Why Exactly Is There a ‘Jarhead 2’? Hollywood’s Secret-Sequel Economy
There are blunt and nuanced answers to the inevitable “Why does ‘Jarhead 2’ exist?” The obvious: money. Less obvious: A potential to serve audiences hungry for stories with budget-sensible vehicles.
