PREVIEW 2024

Movie Reviews

- JORDAN FARLEY, JAMIE GRAHAM, JORDAN FARLEY

NOVEL CONCEPT
Matthew Vaughn puts Bond through the blender...

DIRECTOR MATTHEW VAUGHN
STARRING HENRY CAVILL, BRYCE DALLAS
HOWARD, SAM ROCKWELL, JOHN CENA,
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
ETA 2 FEBRUARY

‘You know, one of the biggest arguments I have with my children is trying to get them to watch old movies,’ smiles Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service) from beneath his trademark baseball cap. ‘These are the movies I fell in love with at the cinema. In one week, I watched, with them, Charade and North by Northwest. I was like, “This is amazing.” And they were like, “But it’s a bunch of old people”. Actually, they were a lot younger than Brad Pitt and Cruise and stuff – they just looked older!’

There’s a reason Vaughn is telling Total Film how he spent his lockdown herding the kids in front of the TV. He’s explaining why he chose to make his new movie, Argylle. A meta-spy adventure, it sees a bestselling author of espionage books suddenly caught up in a real-life globe-trotting thrill ride involving secret agents, cool gadgets and sleek vehicles.

‘And then I put on Romancing  the Stone, and they flipped for it,’ he continues. ‘They first went, “Dad, why is no one making movies like that?” And then they pointed at me, and went, “You could do something like that.”’