Tag: Last Night in Soho
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Streaming: the best Halloween films for kids
As Halloween beckons, summon up favourite child-friendly frighteners such as The Witches, Beetlejuice and CoralineHowever much adults latch on to it as an excuse for partying and dressing up, Halloween remains, in its present-day incarnation, an occasion chiefly for the benefit of children: try trick-or-treating without one in tow and see how far you get.…
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Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: Fear Street, Last Night In Soho, The Empty Man, And More
On the October 29, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by senior news editor Jacob Hall to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler.Opening Banter:At The Water Cooler:What we’ve been Doing:Jacob did a haunted house trip for the first time in two years.What we’ve…
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Edgar Wright Breaks Down the 1960s Films That Inspired ‘Last Night in Soho’ — Exclusive
Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller “Last Night in Soho” has finally arrived in U.S. theaters. The film, starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anya-Taylor Joy, world premiered at the Venice Film Festival to a rave review from IndieWire, which named it an official Critic’s Pick. “The film marks a refreshing change for the director and co-writer of ‘Shaun…
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Edgar Wright Would Like To Play The 14th Doctor On Doctor Who [Exclusive]
Edgar Wright told me to write that headline.We’re supposed to be talking about “Last Night in Soho,” the director’s stylish new horror movie (which I enjoyed very much), but I can’t help myself. I’ve spent the pandemic finally giving in and watching “Doctor Who,” the beloved and long-running science fiction series about an immortal time…
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‘Last Night in Soho’: Why Edgar Wright Hired a Researcher to Uncover Stories of Sexual Assault in Showbiz
Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” is several movies at once: a stylish appreciation for life in the big city and a repudiation of its dark history, a cautionary coming-of-age tale, and an unsettling ghost story. Those layers reflect the director’s own evolving relationship to material, and its capacity to use slick, absorbing genre tropes…
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Last Night In Soho Writer Reminds Us That Nostalgia Was Originally Classified As An Illness [Exclusive]
Edgar Wright’s new movie “Last Night in Soho” (which arrives in theaters this week) tells the story of a young woman from modern times who is offered a window back to London in the 1960s, only to discover that the past is not quite as glitzy and sexy as it may have seemed. The film interrogates…
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns and Jack Ivins’ Great Company Inks Two-Year Overall Film Deal With Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures has signed a two-year overall film deal with Academy Award-nominated writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns and Jack Ivins’ Great Company.News of the pact comes ahead of the debut of “Last Night in Soho,” which Wilson-Cairns co-wrote alongside director Edgar Wright, as it bolsters the working relationship between Wilson-Cairns and Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. The Focus…
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‘Last Night in Soho’ Star Anya Taylor-Joy First Auditioned for Edgar Wright for ‘Baby Driver’
Anya Taylor-Joy stars in Edgar Wright’s new “Last Night in Soho,” but it wasn’t the first time they could have worked together. “I had read the ‘Baby Driver’ script’ and auditioned for it,” Taylor-Joy told me Monday at the “Last Night in Soho” premiere at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. “I was a really…
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Anya Taylor-Joy’s ‘Furiosa’ Prep: ‘Become Strong Enough’ Mentally to Carry the Entire Movie
Anya Taylor-Joy is in prep on George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa” ahead of filming next year, and she’s already loving getting the chance to work with the Oscar-nominated director. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly to promote Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho,” Taylor-Joy called Miller “incredibly generous and so passionate.” Taylor-Joy is taking…
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Edgar Wright: how Martin Scorsese helped me through lockdown
The director talks about his love of British film and 1960s London – and the ‘quarantine movie club’ of little-known gems recommended to him by ScorseseRead Scorsese’s list hereIn March of 2020, at the beginning of the first Covid lockdown, Edgar Wright was in post-production on his new movie, Last Night in Soho. With a…