Edgar Wright Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/edgar-wright/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:07:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Edgar Wright Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/edgar-wright/ 32 32 ‘The Running Man’ Review: The Wright stuff https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/14/the-running-man-review-the-wright-stuff/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:07:38 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042660 Thanks to Baby Driver breaking people’s brains (and that Anthony Bourdain tweet didn’t help matters), Edgar Wright is now caught in a miserable catch-22. If he were to continue making the types of films he always has — deliciously self-critical and deeply personal tributes to genre cinema — he runs the risk of the work being misunderstood at best and uncharitably savaged at worst (see Last Night in Soho and the baffling vitriol that was hurled its way). If he […]

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]]> Watch the blistering new trailer for ‘The Running Man’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/10/14/watch-the-blistering-new-trailer-for-the-running-man/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:50:23 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042483 We might not have been the world’s biggest fans of Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk, but at least we’ve got one more motion-themed Stephen King adaptation left this year: Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, which has a whole host of Hollywood talent in the cast and offers the British filmmaker behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz a chance to bring some of his hyperactive style to a near-future thriller. The film had a large presence at this year’s […]

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]]> See Glen Powell, uh, run in the ‘Running Man’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2025/07/01/see-glen-powell-uh-run-in-the-running-man-trailer/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:28:59 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041927 We’re not going to recycle our lede from our post about The Long Walk, the Francis Lawrence movie based on a Stephen King novel that involves a running-themed game show or sporting event, or whatever. No, that’s not who we are. This is a post about The Running Man, Edgar Wright’s adaptation of a Stephen King novel about a running-themed game show or sporting event or whatever. Even better, it’s a remake of one of our favorite B-tier Arnold Schwarzenegger […]

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]]> ‘Last Night in Soho’ Review: It’s now or never https://vanyaland.com/2021/10/26/last-night-in-soho-review-its-now-or-never/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:25:51 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10028295 For alienated adolescents and plenty of awkward adults, disaffected and unsatisfied with modern life, the past has provided a perpetually alluring form of escapism. As much as we’d like to think that we, the mod-dressed moderns, invented this kind of backward-looking appropriation and cultural fanboyism, the truth is that humans have done this for centuries — one need only look at Renaissance Europe, which looked at the Romans and the Greeks as a kind of forgotten heyday unable to be […]

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]]> ‘The Sparks Brothers’ Review: An A+ rock doc from Edgar Wright https://vanyaland.com/2021/06/18/the-sparks-brothers-review-an-a-rock-doc-from-edgar-wright/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:23:14 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10026731 Editor’s Note: This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the virtual South-By-Southwest film festival. With the film’s wider release this week, we’ve republished the review. Check out all our coverage from SXSW 2021 here. *** Perhaps the worst part about the anonymization of music consumption through streaming services and the use of algorithms is that it has utterly wrecked one of life’s greatest joys as a listener, involved in a music “community”: Being able to encounter persuasive […]

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]]> Watch the great teaser for Edgar Wright’s ‘Last Night in Soho’ https://vanyaland.com/2021/05/25/watch-the-great-teaser-for-edgar-wrights-last-night-in-soho/ Tue, 25 May 2021 19:00:01 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10026440 On Monday, the Marvel nerds had their turn to freak the fuck out and dominate the film discourse about the Eternals trailer, and, contrary to what some may believe, you won’t hear any complaints from us about people being excited to see a big-screen-bound movie later on in the year. But we hope everyone can come together and freak the hell out about the first trailer for Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, the Shaun of the Dead director’s new […]

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]]> Edgar Wright’s doc ‘The Sparks Brothers’ gets a first trailer https://vanyaland.com/2021/05/13/edgar-wrights-doc-the-sparks-brothers-gets-a-first-trailer/ Thu, 13 May 2021 20:52:18 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10026296 Hot off of its local premiere at IFFBoston on Wednesday night, Focus Features dropped the first trailer for Edgar Wright’s fantastic new documentary The Sparks Brothers earlier on Thursday. Are those things related? Who knows, but we’re hoping they are. Anyway, as you might have heard from us back in March, this movie is utterly fantastic, and it’s chock full of nuts, if by “nuts,” you mean “famous musicians and other people of note telling you just how great Sparks […]

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]]> SXSW 2021: ‘The Sparks Brothers’ is an A+ rock doc https://vanyaland.com/2021/03/22/sxsw-2021-the-sparks-brothers-is-an-a-rock-doc/ Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:10:47 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10025716 Editor’s Note: Normally this week, Vanyaland Film Editor Nick Johnston would be down in Austin for South-By-Southwest’s film festival, catching as many premieres as he can in between tacos and fun walks down a crowded 6th Street. But SXSW 2021 is a virtual edition, so he’s at home like the rest of us. Luckily, he’s still watching all the films worth seeing, and reviewing them in our film section; check out his official preview here, and keep it locked to […]

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]]> Off The Reservation: Anthony Bourdain upsets film Twitter with negative ‘Baby Driver’ tweet https://vanyaland.com/2017/07/05/off-the-reservation-anthony-bourdain-upsets-film-twitter-with-negative-baby-driver-tweet/ Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:05:16 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=161640 Yesterday afternoon, as America celebrated its independence, noted chef and television host Anthony Bourdain took to Twitter to shoot off some fireworks of his own. Bourdain mainly uses his Twitter account to shitpost about that Ol’ Time Rock And Roll and ’70s cinema (he posted a picture a few weeks earlier of him talking with Francis Ford Coppola, the beloved director of Jack and Finian’s Rainbow), but on the holiday (July 4) had a searing hot take about one of […]

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]]> SXSW Film: Buckle up, because Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ is the best musical in years https://vanyaland.com/2017/03/13/sxsw-film-buckle-up-because-edgar-wrights-baby-driver-is-the-best-musical-in-years/ Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:48:51 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=156046 To say that Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver is the best musical released in the last decade is both absolutely deserved and, to most people, totally unexpected. “Isn’t it a car chase movie?” people will ask, and yeah, on the surface it is: A hyperactive action movie full of blood and funk that just can’t, no, won’t stop the beat. But lying beneath it is some of the most incredible technical music-centered choreography, cinematography and editing since the ’30s. Like another […]

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