Tom Shone, The Sunday Times Journalist Profile

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Ballerina assassin Ana de Armas vs shark-obsessed serial killer - who wins?

13 hours ago | thetimes.com | Tom Shone

The entry threshold for film spin-offs is amazingly low these days. Han Solo got his own because he helped to destroy the Death Star. Professor Dumbledore got one starring Jude Law because he made sure Harry Potter finished his homework. The first we saw of the heroine of the new action flick Ballerina was a brief scene in John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum where John Wick (Keanu Reeves) glimpsed a young ballerina, bearing a number of interesting tattoos, in training at his local crime syndicate.
Carey Mulligan vs Gillian Anderson - who wins the battle of the box office?

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Tom Shone

That Carey Mulligan has a musical ear we knew from a) her role as a folk singer in Inside Llewyn Davis and b) her choice of husband, the folk singer Marcus Mumford. She has clearly spent a lot of time observing Mumford backstage and draws on it in The Ballad of Wallis Island.
Is this Tom Cruise finale the best stunt sequence ever?

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Tom Shone
Rosamund Pike enthrals in cinema's tensest car ride, shot in real time

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Tom Shone
Rosamund Pike enthrals in cinema's tensest car ride, shot in real time

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Tom Shone

Blame Aristotle. Every now and again a film-maker gets it into their head to clamp down on the old Aristotelian unities of time and space and let their drama play out in something close to real time.
Ban this foreign filth! Can cinema really threaten national security?

1 month ago | ca.movies.yahoo.com | Tom Shone

As always with pronouncements by President Trump, once you had peeled away the xenophobia, removed the stew of resentment, ignored the sheer idiocy and asterisked the possible illegality, there was a small kernel of truth to his posting on Truth Social last Sunday. “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote, pointing to the nefarious tax breaks other countries gave film-makers as “a National Security threat” and proposing an 100% tariff on films made oversees.
Ban this foreign filth! Can cinema really threaten national security?

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Tom Shone

As always with pronouncements by President Trump, once you had peeled away the xenophobia, removed the stew of resentment, ignored the sheer idiocy and asterisked the possible illegality, there was a small kernel of truth to his posting on Truth Social last Sunday. “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote, pointing to the nefarious tax breaks other countries gave film-makers as “a National Security threat” and proposing an 100% tariff on films made oversees.
Ban this foreign filth! Can cinema really threaten national security?

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Tom Shone

As always with pronouncements by President Trump, once you had peeled away the xenophobia, removed the stew of resentment, ignored the sheer idiocy and asterisked the possible illegality, there was a small kernel of truth to his posting on Truth Social last Sunday. “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote, pointing to the nefarious tax breaks other countries gave film-makers as “a National Security threat” and proposing an 100% tariff on films made oversees.
The genius behind the sound of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Tom Shone

Shut your eyes at the movies and what do you hear? The whop-whop-whop of choppers at the start of Apocalypse Now? The mosquito that bedevils Barton Fink in his hotel room like a Stuka bomber? The piercing, metal scream from an overhead train that Michael Corleone hears before he murders Sollozzo and McCluskey in a Bronx restaurant in The Godfather? If so then you are enjoying the work of Walter Murch, the three-time Oscar-winning editor and sound designer.
Why Bill Murray is Hollywood's saddest clown

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Tom Shone