Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year Trailer

Matthew will be a guest sitter on the first episode February 12th on Sky Arts.

Official Secrets – Sundance

The initial response to this movie showing at Sundance seems positive.  A full review has been added to the press archive.  Screendaily highlighted Matthew’s performance as journalist Peter Beaumont: –

Official Secrets spends much of its first half focusing on the reporters’ investigation into this leak, and Smith and Goode make an enjoyable onscreen combo.

 

Official Secrets movie premieres at Sundance Film Festival today.

Matthew plays Guardian journalist Peter Beaumont in Official Secrets and the movie premieres today at Sundance.  Information from Rotten Tomatoes: –

Director: Gavin Hood

Screenwriters: Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein

Cast: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans

Another post-9/11 tale, this one set across the pond. Official Secrets is the true story of British Intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing an illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council ahead of the Iraq War.

Why we want to see it: The Doctor, Voldemort, Ozymandias, and Elizabeth Bennett walk into a political thriller… Yes, this cast is stacked with Oscar-caliber British actors. Some have dubbed the real-life events the film is based on as the case of the ‘British Edward Snowden’ – we hope Hood’s film is more like the Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour than Oliver Stone’s Razzie-nominated Snowden. 

A scene from Official Secrets. Picture: Nick Wall.

[Pic – sundance institute]

New Interview with Matthew

A new interview has been added to the press archive.

How Matthew Goode had a full-circle moment filming A Discovery of Witches

We’ve also added extracts from other coverage in the build up to A Discovery of Witches starting on the 17th.