‘Last Night in Soho’ review: Stylish but hollow

With all of the delicacy of a meat cleaver, the latest film from Edgar Wright is an erroneously clumsy take on female empowerment. A direct homage to the Italian Giallo movement of the ’60s and ’70s with its technicolor spotlights,…

Movie Review: Patti Cake$

Boy do I love this movie. Patti Cake$ is an optimistic Fish Tank, a hopeful Whiplash, a Jersey girl Once, a less rapey Saturday Night Fever. It’s joyous and hilarious and wildly depressing. And you should see it at the…

Movie Review: Baby Driver

There is a contagious energy that permeates from the nonstop engine that is Baby Driver. After the first minute, it goes from zero to one hundred as it gives the audience a small taste of what we should expect in…

What we find at The World’s End

The Worlds End was one of those movies that had me in constant facial contortions. One moment I was splitting my face in two with a toothy grin, the next it was agape, my hands covering it in empathetic panic over…

Getting An Extra Life: A Retrospective of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

We’re taking a look at what has made each of Edgar Wright’s films great in lead up to the release of Baby Driver.  Edgar Wright hit a certain level of mainstream success in a wonderful overlap with my own ability…

Hot Fuzz: For The Love Of Action

We’re taking a look at what has made each of Edgar Wright’s films great in lead up to the release of Baby Driver.  In the long run, it makes sense that Edgar Wright would do an action film. Considering the…

The world as he knows it comes to an end in Shaun of the Dead

We’re taking a look at what has made each of Edgar Wright’s films great in lead up to the release of Baby Driver.  Who hasn’t woken up and thought the world was coming to an end? In Edgar Wright’s Shaun…