Congratulations to all my L.A.
peers on victory of the Rams at last week’s Super Bowl, but I have to admit that the highlight of the show for this sports-illiterate viewer had nothing to do with musclemen or their ball, nor that invigorating half-time show (though Kendrick Lamar’s cardboard boxes bit was legendary).
I perked up Jordan Peele’s “Nope” trailer, a pileup of shocked cutaways to a very menacing something in the sky: It said just enough about why we should anticipate this late-July release without saying much at all.Above all, it said Peele is still at it, directing singular horror-comedies with a calculated intent to entertain and enlighten.
Six years after his debut “Get Out” became a global behemoth, here’s a modern U.S.
filmmaker with a rare ability to take his time making original movies with the full backing of a studio’s dollars.
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