Tag: Shaun of the Dead
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Tales From The Box Office: How Baby Driver Became A Mid-Budget Miracle
Edgar Wright somewhat quietly asserted himself as one of this generation’s most interesting and talented filmmakers in the early 2000s with movies like “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz.” It’s pretty easy to argue that the man has a perfect track record, with even his “worst” movie (certainly changing dependent on the viewer) still…
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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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‘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 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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‘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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The Sparks Brothers review – a match made in heaven
Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright is a perfect fit for the absurdist antics of art pop’s most elusive duo in this stranger-than-fiction documentary“They are a band who you can look up on Wikipedia and know nothing!” So says long-term Sparks fan Julia Marcus, just one voice amid a dizzying array of interviewees wrestling…
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‘We have a hostility to being boring’: Sparks, still flying in their 70s
Their Adam Driver musical sent Cannes into raptures and Edgar Wright has made an all-star documentary about them. The Mael brothers explain why they’ll always be hopelessly in love with popIn 1974, John Lennon was startled as he was watching Top of the Pops. He rang Ringo Starr. “You won’t believe what’s on television,” he…
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Edgar Wright’s ‘Last Night in Soho’ Debuts First Footage Before Full Trailer Arrives on Tuesday
Edgar Wright has delivered incredible blends of comedy, action, horror and sci-fi with movies like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End. But the filmmaker is about to give us something extremely different with his latest effort. Last Night in Soho is a straight-up psychological horror-thriller starring Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit)…
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‘Attack The Block 2’: John Boyega Officially Returning For Alien Invasion Comedy Sequel; Joe Cornish Set To Write & Direct
John Boyega first made waves when he led the Joe Cornish-directed mature science-fiction comedy film “Attack The Block,” an alien invasion comedy similar to Edgar Wright‘s zombie flick “Shaun of The Dead.” The comparison isn’t shocking since Wright was a producer on the film and a longtime friend of Cornish; the pair had co-written Marvel’s…
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Edgar Wright Releases His Top 100 Songs Of 2020 Playlist
Edgar Wright is known for many things, but perhaps his best skill as a filmmaker is being able to put an iconic needle drop at exactly the right moment. Between the “Don’t Stop Me Now” scene in “Shaun of the Dead,” or basically the entire “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” and “Baby Driver,” the filmmaker…