Time for a bit of an update. In the past few months I’ve been lucky enough to add to my portfolio of published work. Weeks of sending emails, researching, securing interviews and pitching features has lead to magazines such as Empire, Total Film and SFX running my work in various issues. What’s more, I was recently asked to take over the role of Film Editor for the dead funny alt-men’s mag Front which has been amazing. Below are some pics of my finished work as it appeared on shelves. Click the images for a better look.
I’ve read Empire for years, so to see my work printed on their glossy pages was pretty insane. This light-hearted Q+A to accompany the mag’s DVD/Blu-Ray review of Studio Ghibli’s Arrietty was the main purpose of my interview with Saoirse Ronan. During our chat she revealed her five favorite cartoon characters of all time, a couple of which were pretty left field. This interview was featured in issue 272.
Alex Winter is a busy guy. He’s spent the better half of the past decade chronicling the rise and fall of Napster and the slow death of the music industry for his upcoming documentary Downloaded. He was kind enough to chat to me between editing duties to discuss the long in gestation project and share his thoughts on the finished project. He also gave me an update on where things are at regarding the highly anticipated return of time-traveling dudes Bill and Ted. Word is that the script’s in, the tone’s right and everyone’s keen to get started on it. This mini news story was printed in SFX issue 218.
I always try to keep an eye out for upcoming films that cause a lot of noise online but don’t seem to get much movie mag attention. The David Fincher produced adaptation of Eric Powell’s cult comic The Goon fits the bill perfectly. Blur Studios put together a teaser trailer that’s drenched in cool and captures the tone and dark humor of Powell’s book perfectly. If you haven’t already seen it, do yourself a favor and check it out below. Author Eric Powell couldn’t have been any nicer and during our chat he revealed all about how The Goon spiked the attention of David Fincher and what we can expect from the finished project. As far as I know, a lot of the info spilled during our chat isn’t available anywhere else. I’ve recently completed a feature for SFX based on the same interview, so expect to see more of The Goon in coming months. This piece was featured in Total Film issue 190.
This is my first film section for FRONT. It just so happened to be the month that Arrietty arrived on DVD, so I decided to use the remainder of my Saoirse Ronan interview to accompany the review. Writing for FRONT is super fun. There’s no real restraints on what I can or can’t say and I get a couple of pages on which to ramble on about the movies that I think readers should check out each month. It’s a pretty sweet deal and something that I’m really enjoying so far. February’s Muppet-filled section should be on sale late next week.
