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17 Sep

Edgar Wright Is Bored With ‘Endless Oxygen Taken Up By Talk of Streaming’

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Last Night in Soho is finally being released at the end of October. In theaters. It’s the culmination of a long road for the movie’s singular writer-director, Edgar Wright, and one he’s had a hand in personally guiding. When we sat down to talk with Wright in August, the director behind such electric classics as Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and the bonafide blockbuster Baby Driver tells us he’s been championing an October 2021 release date for some time, believing his first full-throated horror movie would have its best chance to be seen in a cinema…
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14 Sep

Edgar Wright on Ghosts, Musicals, and Last Night in Soho

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Edgar Wright is trying to cure himself. That’s how the writer-director describes his latest movie Last Night in Soho: a cure for the nostalgia that’s followed him all his life, and which still causes him to daydream against his better judgment about 1960s London as if it were a golden age. “I have this recurring time travel fantasy about the idea of going back,” Wright says with the air of a confession. “But I think it’s always that thing, this nagging fear that it’s probably a really bad idea.” It’s a surprising admission for a filmmaker who has spent his…
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11 Sep

Last Night in Soho Review: Edgar Wright Horror Movie Haunted with ’60s Style

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The incredible trailer for Last Night in Soho dropped in the middle of the pandemic like an oasis in a desert for cinema-starved folks longing for bold, original films. Looking back, it seemed impossible that Edgar Wright’s latest creation would be able to live up to the impossibly high standards set for it. But Last Night in Soho manages to be part charming and part chilling in its exploration of a very specific 1960s, giallo-inspired aesthetic. It’s a kaleidoscopic flurry of colors and images, and even as it perhaps loses the thread when it’s asked to make sense of itself,…
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