Historias de Lastnightinsoho

Discussion on the movie landscape of 2020. This will include discussions on mostly contemporary films. But time from time, I might sneak in some classic movies or older ones. I will sometimes do review, but the reason I frame these things as discussions is because I sometimes go off topic. want to talk about what the film makes me think. Sometimes this will be a rambling. Sometimes a constructed argument. Sometimes even a fully cited essay.

The thirty-second entry of the 2020-2021 Film Journal is "Last Night in Soho". Yet another film delayed by the pandemic, I recount my longtime admiration for the work of this film's co-writer and director, Edgar Wright, as well as my somewhat unusual theatrical experience with this piece. Primarily, I take a deep dive into this frightening film's scary ideas about nostalgia and the patriarchy, which hit a little too close to home.