Tag: Last Night in Soho
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London’s Soho on screen – from Peeping Tom to Mona Lisa
It’s one of the capital’s most storied districts. Here Kim Newman leads a tour round 15 memorable movie locations in Soho and surrounds.Illustration by Lyndon HayesLast Night in Soho covers a large patch of London’s West End, from the Toucan pub on Carlisle Street on the northern edge of Soho, to the heroine’s digs in…
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Rita Tushingham: ‘Can you imagine walking around thinking: Ooh, I’m an icon?’
The star of A Taste of Honey reflects on her 60-year career, not standing for Oliver Reed’s ‘games’ and swinging London as depicted in her new film Last Night in SohoIt was 60 years ago that Rita Tushingham made her film debut in A Taste of Honey. “I’m expecting a gold clock or something,” says…
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Last Night In Soho Soundtrack Features ’60s Deep Cuts: Listen To Anya Taylor-Joy’s Cover Of Downtown
In tandem with Edgar Wright’s latest feature, “Last Night In Soho,” Back Lot Music has dropped a single, sung by none other than the film’s star. Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch“) steps behind the microphone and croons a soulful, downtempo cover of Petula Clark’s ’60s chart-topper, “Downtown,” in a crisp new music video dropped first on…
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‘The Harder They Fall’ Trailer: Idris Elba, Jonathan Major & Zazie Beetz Shoot It Out In A Netflix Neo-Western
Quentin Tarantino has claimed in several interviews that Westerns, more than any other genre, reflect the “values and problems” of the era in which they were made. If that’s true, audiences are in for a vivid temperature check with “The Harder They Fall,” an upcoming neo-Western from Netflix.Read More: BFI London Film Festival 2021 Lineup…
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Last Night In Soho Reveals The Thrilling Next Era Of Edgar Wright [Fantastic Fest]
The most exciting thing about “Last Night in Soho” is that it feels unlike any other Edgar Wright film, while being, unmistakably, an Edgar Wright film. This is undeniably the filmmaker who made “Shaun of the Dead” and “Scott Pilgrim vs the World,” but his work on this new London-set, time-jumping horror movie is far…
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Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho Got Its Title After A Conversation With Quentin Tarantino
Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino are pals, and they even worked together briefly on one film “Grindhouse” back when it was a double feature and not sold separately as Tarantino’s “Death Proof” and Robert Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror.” Wright directed “Don’t,” one of the funny fake trailers between the two movies. Tarantino also lent DVD commentary to…
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London Film Festival: ‘Last Night in Soho,’ ‘French Dispatch,’ ‘Succession’ Added as Full Lineup Unveiled
The 2021 BFI London Film Festival — set to run Oct. 6-17 — has unveiled its full program, with a sizeable haul of major titles joining the lineup.Alongside already announced opener, The Harder They Fall, gala screening The Power of the Dog, closing night film The Tragedy of Macbeth and the official competition titles, other…
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Where Art Thou, Anya? Star of Trippy ‘Last Night in Soho’ Briefly Goes Missing During Venice Standing Ovation
The Venice crowd at the Sala Grande theater could not take their eyes off Anya Taylor-Joy during Edgar Wright’s trippy psychological thriller “Last Night in Soho.”But when the movie ended just after midnight on Saturday and the spotlight shone on the cast to receive applause from the festival attendees, as is tradition, Taylor-Joy was nowhere…
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‘Last Night in Soho’ Review: Edgar Wright’s Delirious Horror Movie Is a Mod Delight
Edgar Wright’s long-awaited new film has plenty of what you might call The Wright Stuff. That is, it mixes comedy with more nerve-racking genres, it bursts with his love of pop culture, it explores his mixed feelings about the lure and the risk of nostalgia, and it includes several of his other favorite subjects, including…
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Last Night in Soho review – a gaudy romp that’s stupidly enjoyable
Edgar Wright’s time-travel film plays like a 60s pop song building towards a big climaxThe nostalgia gauge is code-red on Last Night in Soho, a gaudy time-travel romp that whisks its modern-day heroine to a bygone London that probably never existed outside our fevered cultural imagination. It’s the era of Dusty Springfield and Biba; great…