John Nugent is an award-winning journalist and editor, based in London.
- He is currently Reviews Editor at Empire Magazine, the world’s best-selling movie magazine.
- He is a Top Critic at Rotten Tomatoes.
- He is the winner of the International Media Award at the 2025 ICG Publicists Awards.
- In his spare time, he enjoys cycling, walks on the beach, and referring to himself in the third person.
- He is open to commissions: john@thenuge.co.uk
- For Empire enquiries: john@empiremagazine.com
Some recent work.
Film reviews.
- Maria review
- A Complete Unknown review
- Our Little Secret review
- Piece By Piece review
- Juror #2 review
- Megalopolis review
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review
- The Beekeeper review
- The Garfield Movie review
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review
- Killers Of The Flower Moon review
- Parasite review
- Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood review
- The Green Knight review
Empire Podcast interviews.
Magazine interview features.
- Mickey17 feature (with Bong Joon Ho, Robert Pattinson and more)
- Trap film feature (with M. Night Shyamalan and Josh Hartnett)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once film feature (with the Daniels, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis and more)
- Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 film feature (with James Gunn, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and more)
- Grizzly II reported feature (with George Clooney and more)
- Human Traffic anniversary film feature (with Danny Dyer, John Simm and more)
- Nicolas Cage interview feature
- Coen Brothers interview feature
- Attack The Block cast and director reunion (with Joe Cornish, John Boyega and more)
- Brian Blessed interview feature
Advertorials.
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