Last Night in Soho

 

Last Night in Soho 2021

• Director: Edgar Wright
• Seen by this director – The World’s End, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, Rita Tushingham, Michael Ajao, Pauline McLynn, Terrence Stamp
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Thomasin McKenzie – Jojo Rabbit
• Anya Taylor-Joy – The New Mutants, Glass, Split
• Matt Smith – Doctor Who, Sally Lockhart
• Diana Rigg – Breathe, Doctor Who, Extras, King Lear, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, The Avengers
• Rita Tushingham – Being Julia, Doctor Zhivago, A Taste of Honey
• Michael Ajao – Attack the Block
• Pauline McLynn – Doctor Who, Johnny English Strikes Again
• Terence Stamp – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, A Song for Marion, Valkyria, Wanted, Dead Fish, Red Planet, Star Wars, The Limey, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Superman, The Collector, Billy Budd
• Why? London. Sci fi. The Cast
• Seen: 14 January 2023      

       Young Ellie (McKenzie) leaves her gran (Tushingham) in Cornwall to go to London to attend the London School of Design. There she boards in the house of Ms Collins (Rigg) on the top floor in a room which has a magic passage back to the 60s where Sandie (Taylor-Joy) switches places with her through the mirror.

       Sandie wants to be a singer and Jack (Smith) becomes her agent. She’s a bit wild but also determined. Ellie is timid but also determined. Back and forth between Sandie and Ellie, the 60s and the present.

       It’s all exciting and good fun at first but it quickly turns dark and becomes a real horror story. And it works. It’s scary.

       Great 60s music and a good cast with Riggs in her last role and Smith as a pimp which he plays much better than he ever played the Doctor. He is my least favourite of all the modern Doctors but here it works as does the whole film. 

4* of 5