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.

New interview with Matthew

New York Times – Matthew Goode Knows How to Charm. Just Ask Lady Mary and Princess Margaret.

By Kathryn Shattuck  Jan. 11, 2019

Matthew Goode has always exuded a whiff of danger: the slyly wicked smile. The devil-may-care charm. The sense that something rather naughty lurks beneath his suave exterior.

Which mostly explains why he was cast, no audition required, as Matthew Clairmont, an Oxford genealogist — and 1,500-year-old vampire — in “A Discovery of Witches,” streaming on Sundance Nowand Shudder, starting Jan. 17.

Full article added to the press archive.

Goode Things Coming in 2019!

A quick round up of what movies are due for release and the projects Matthew is involved in this year.   Also at the end of this post is a summary of what TV shows and movies are available on streaming services in the UK, USA and Italy.

A Discovery of Witches – starts airing in the US and Canada on January 17th.  AT LAST!!!

[Pic – Sky]

The National Television Awards – shortlists will be announced around Jan’ 8th.  ADOW was on the long list so we shall have to wait and see if it made the shortlist.  If it does – the awards are televised on 22nd Jan ITV.

Sky Arts Portrait of the Year – starts in January 2019 and continues through until March.  Matthew is a guest model in one episode however we don’t know which one he will be in yet.

[Pic – nattynora/wallace collection instagram]

Official Secrets – premieres at the Sundance film festival on the 28th January. We’re guessing it’s likely to be released in the UK first (sorry).  It stars Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes and Matthew as journalist Peter Beaumont –

All Souls Con – for All Souls Trilogy fans.  Save the date: 2-3 August 2019, Cardiff, Wales.  It would be amazing if Matthew made an appearance – keep your fingers and toes crossed!

Downton movie – Matthew returns as Lady Mary’s husband Henry Talbot –

[Pic – Entertainment Weekly]

Known release dates are shown below from IMDb –

Golf Tournaments – check back here nearer the dates to see if he’s due to play at these:-

  • PGA Championships – Wednesday 18th September at Wentworth, Surrey (changed from May).
  • Matthew normally plays golf in the Dunhill Links Championships at St Andrews in Scotland in October – it looks like it will take place at the end of September this year.
  • Maybe the British Masters at Walton Heath as well?

I’ve ignored it long enough. It’s Dunhill time again. It’s the devil game golf - yuck! But Matthew Goode playing golf is something else. Can golf actually be sexy? Well yes. Yes it can.It’s worth going if you are in Scotland - St Andrews. He does...

[Pic – Dunhill]

We’ll check if he’s due to play and let you know about tickets etc. nearer the time.

Coming Soon?  No dates yet.

The Wine Show [TV] – Season 3 – Matthew as a presenter –

Medieval – Movie – Matthew as King Sigismund

Four Kids and It – Movie – due for UK release first.  No dates available yet.

Filming for A Discovery of Witches – filming for Season 2 starts in March according to Matthew.

Still available

In the UK

A Discovery of Witches – on Sky box sets and NowTV until 2024.

BBC I player – Brideshead Revisited is currently on for a few more weeks.   Box set of Roots.

All 4 – Birdsong

Amazon Prime in the UK has

  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, – newly added
  • The Imitation Game
  • The Goode Wife – Matthew is in season 5 from episode 15 and most of season 6.
  • Ordeal by Innocence
  • The Big Bad Fox and Other Adventures – newly added.

Netflix in the UK has –

  • The Crown
  • Leap Year
  • Birthmarked
  • Self/less
  • Allied [only one short scene!]
  • Copying Beethoven [Don’t bother – seriously don’t]
  • Watchmen
Information provided so far about what is available in other regions – thanks to @teach463146, @di-elle, @utopiangraduate,   @perniciouskniddles , @roxyb52,  @maygirl5, @cristinaloowe and @adiscoveryofwitchesfrance on tumblr:-

In the US

Amazon Prime in the US has:

  • Downton Abbey The Final Season
  • A Discovery of Witches – Full series available 1/17 on Sundance Now and Shudder
  • Pressure
  • Ordeal by Innocence
  • The Good Wife, Season 5

Netflix in the US has:

  • Birthmarked
  • The Crown
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
  • Watchmen
  • The Imitation Game
  • Death Comes to Pemberley

Hulu still has:

  • The Wine Show
  • Allied
  • The Good Wife
  • Roots
  • Marple ‘A Murder is Announced

Starz app has:

  • Dancing on the Edge

In FRANCE 

Netflix France :

  • The Good Wife
  • The Crown
  • Downton Abbey

Amazon Prime:

  • Watchmen

In ITALY

(Including only the streaming services with flat plan)

Netflix Italy

  • The Crown
  • The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society
  • Watchmen
  • Birthmarked
  • The good wife
  • Allied

Amazon Italy

  • Downton Abbey (just added)
  • Watchmen
  • Leap Year

Raiplay

  • The imitation game

Timvision

  • Watchmen
  • A single men
  • The good wife

NowTV / SkyGo

  • Pressure

Match point is both on Infinity and Mediaset Premium Play

In CANADA

Netflix

  • The Crown
  • Self/Less
  • Downton Abbey
  • The Imitation Game
  • Allied
  • The Sense of an Ending
  • The Good Wife
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

PrimeVideo

  • Leap Year

Note – if you have further information about what TV/movies are available on streaming services in your country – please message @pleasereadmeok​ on tumblr.  Thank you!