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Date and Switch (DVD Review)

February 8, 2015 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Starring: Nicholas Braun, Hunter Cope, Dakota Johnson, Megan Mullally, Sarah Hyland
Director: Chris Nelson
Running Time: 91 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: February 9th 2015

Michael (Nicholas Braun) and Matty (Hunter Cope) have been friends since they were little kids, but now it’s coming to the end of high school. In time honoured film fashion, they decide to make a pact to lose their virginities before prom – after which they’ll celebrate by eating a tray of pot brownies.

There is one wrinkle though, as Matty hasn’t told Michael that he’s gay. When he does – and after a bit of an initial freakout – Michael gets on board with the idea and even tries to help Matty get into the swing of the gay world. However Matty finds that difficult, as he’s still a bit of a stoner dude and isn’t sure how to be gay in a world where he doesn’t fit into any of the stereotypes he’s seen. [Read more…]

Date & Switch Trailer – Nicholas Braun & Hunter Cope plan to lose their viriginities, and then find out one of them is gay

January 17, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Date and Switch takes a bit of a high school movie cliché and gives it an interesting twist. As in so many movies, a couple of high school boys, Michael and Matty, who make a pact to lose their virginities before prom. However their friendship is tested when Matty reveals he’s actually hoping to pop his cherry with another guy.

A pre-50 Shades Dakota Johnson stars alongside Nicholas Braun, Hunter Cope and Zach Cregger. Braun and Cope are the longtime best friends, with the latter being the one who reveals he’s gay. Their journey includes heading for a foamy gay club and things get a little complicated when Johnson’s character arrives, who is Matty’s ex but also the girl Michael has eyes for. Cregger plays Matty’s potential love interest.

The likes of Sarah Hyland, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Gary Cole and Wendi McLendon-Covey also star. The film’s out in the US in February. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Nicholas Braun, Hunter Cope, Dakota Johnson DIRECTORS: Chris Nelson FILMS: Date And Switch

Nicholas Braun, Jared Harris & Kyle Catlett Up For Poltergeist Remake

September 5, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt recently signed up for the lead role in the remake of Poltergeist, and now director Gil Kenan is busy filling out the cast with the news that Jared Harris, Kyle Calett and Nicholas Braun have signed up according to Deadline, Variety and The Wrap.

DeWitt and Rockwell will be the Bowen’s, parents of a young girl who becomes possessed by paranormal forces. Jared Harris is set to be Carrigan, a former academic who now hosts a basic cable TV series entitled Haunted House Cleaners. The Following’s Kyle Catlett is playing another one of the Bowen children, while Red State’s Braun will be playing a grad student who is assigned to document the attempt to remove the titular poltergeist

Kenan is directing from a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire. It’s due to start shooting fairly soon.

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ACTORS: Nicholas Braun, Jared Harris DIRECTORS: Gil Kenan FILMS: Poltergeist

Nicholas Braun & Jane Levy Are Good Kids

August 13, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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Nicholas Braun (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) is one of those actors who feels like he’s waiting for the right role to break out (it sometimes seems his hulking 6ft 4in frame is limiting the role the 25-year-old gets). However now Deadline reports that he and Jane Levy have signed on to star in Good Kids for writer/director Chris McCoy.

The film is about four overachieving high school kids from Cape Cod who decide to reinvent themselves after graduation, when the summer tourism season begins. There’s no info on exactly who Nicholas Braun and Jane Levy will play, and the other two primary roles have not been cast yet.

Chris McCoy is making his directorial debut, working from his own screenplay, which landed on The Black List in 2011. Most recently McCoy has been working on the Guardians of the Galaxy screenplay.

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ACTORS: Nicholas Braun, Jane Levy

Crush Of The Day: Nicholas Braun

December 18, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

We’ve had our eye on Nicholas Braun ever since Kevin Smith’s Red State, hoping he’d find a vehicle to help him break out into the big time. However he seems to have a problem – he’s too tall. At 6ft 4.5in he has a tendency to tower over everyone else on the screen, which limits the roles the 24-year-old can get.

It’s not an insurmountable obstacle though (although can make things tough in the often blinkered world of casting directors) and he’d got some good roles coming up. Braun is still attached to the lead role in Kevin Smith’s hockey drama, Hit Somebody, which the director recently revealed was going to TV as a mini-series. He’ll also soon be dealing with the homos in Gay Dude, where he plays the straight friend of a gay guy, with the two high school pals agreeing to lose their virginity before they graduate, in true teen movie style. He also has Get A Job and Middleton in the can waiting for release.

Nicholas has previously been seen in Sky High, Prom, Chalet Girl and the TV version of 10 Things I Hate About You. Whether he’ll ever break big is still to be seen, but he’s got a friendly, open face and a geeky on-screen charm that should stand him in good stead.

Oh, and the reason we’ve decided to crush on him is due to his supporting role in The Watch, which reaches DVD in the UK on December 26th. He also appears as ponytail Derek in the gay-friendly The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, which will hit disc over here on February 11th. [Read more…]

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Nicholas Braun & Brandon T. Jackson Will Get A Job

March 8, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Get A Job is certainly drawing a good cast together, with Miles Teller, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jay Pharaoh, Mimi Gianopulos, Anna Kendrick and Bryan Cranston already attached, and now Variety reports that Nicholas Braun (Red State, Prom) and Brandon T. Jackson (Percy Jackson) have signed up too.

Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel’s script follows a college graduate (Miles Teller) and his friends who have to lower their expectations about life as they enter the real world during a recession. Nicholas Braun will play the graduates’ perpetually stoned pal who takes a job as a middle school teacher to pay the bills and comes to find his true calling as a basketball coach. Jackson will play another friend who gets work as a day trader and learns that like most people, he has to start at the bottom doing the daily grind and work his way up the company ladder.

Rodger Dodger helmer Dylan Kidd is directing.

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ACTORS: Nicholas Braun, Brandon T. Jackson DIRECTORS: Dylan Kidd FILMS: Get A Job

Red State (Blu-ray)

January 23, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun, Kyle Gallner, Michael Parks, Melissa Leo
Director: Kevin Smith
Running Time: 88 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: January 23rd, 2012

From the moment Kevin Smith first mentioned Red State several years ago, it was clear it wasn’t going to be like any of his other movies. Although his claims it would be an incendiary movie that’s “so bleak that it makes The Dark Knight look like Strawberry Shortcake” turned out to be slightly hyperbolic, it’s certainly a new side to the director. It’s rare that making a violent horror/thriller movie can be said to show a director maturing, but this really is Kevin Smith on a different level to where he’s been before.

The director’s earlier movies have been a relatively easy ride, with fairly simple stories, plenty of jokes and a rather point and shoot filming style (that’s not to denigrate how much fun they are). [Read more…]