It would be empty hyperbole to declare Eddie Redmayne our worst living actor; in all likelihood, the honor belongs to someone nobody’s ever heard of, so bad that they never became famous in the first place. But in Tobias Lindholm’s new drama “The Good Nurse,” Redmayne still makes a bold argument for some qualified version of the statement. 

During the early stretches that see him in one of his two settings as a performer – so anemic and withdrawn that he appears to be trying to stop existing – one might wonder whether he’s merely the worst of his Hollywood class.

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Edgar Wright has made a career of mashing up genres and bringing an absurd level of energy and charm to his films like “Shaun of the Dead,” “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,” and “Baby Driver.” In this episode of The Discourse, Edgar Wright and writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns join host Mike DeAngelo to talk about doing a straight-up, wicked thriller in “Last Night in Soho,” which is in theaters now.

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Guess it had to happen sometime, but it’s a shame that the previously-thought-to-be inexhaustible energy resource of Edgar Wright’s omnivorous, giddy cinephilia should finally be showing signs running out right now, just when a jaded, weary, pandemic-drab world could use it most. Don’t get me wrong: with its dual-timeline gimmick and its evident love for the pastichey recreation of London in the Swinging Sixties decorating a coming-of-ager that becomes a fish-out-of-water drama that morphs into a murder-mystery that then turns into a slasher-horror, “Last Night in Soho,” which premiered today at the Venice Film Festival, boasts as ambitious a genre-melding concept as Wright has ever fielded.

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Director Edgar Wright teamed with the Oscar-nominated co-writer of “1917,” Krysty Wilson-Cairns, for a new, more serious genre venture, “Last Night In Soho.” A psychological horror film that seemingly has time-jumping elements with rising stars Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch,” “The Queen’s Gambit“) and Thomasin McKenzie (“Jojo Rabbit“) playing the two main leads.

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Taika Waititi has been heavily in demand lately. One of his upcoming projects he’s attached to make is an original “Star Wars” feature film for Lucasfilm that he was originally announced to co-write with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns (“1917,” “Last Night In Soho“). Waititi previously earned a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for his WWII dramedy “Jojo Rabbit.”

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While speaking in a lengthy interview with Wired to promote his role as the villain of “Free Guy,” Taika Waititi has confirmed he’s landed on a story for his “Star Wars” movie.

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Today is “Star Wars Day” and if you thought Disney/Lucasfilm would let the day come and go without some major news from a galaxy far, far away, then you’re insane. Well, even though we expected news about “Star Wars,” no one was probably expecting what Lucasfilm had up its sleeve.

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According to the studio, a new “Star Wars” theatrical film is currently in development with Taika Waititi at the helm.

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There are few insights as shopworn as “war is hell,” but there’s a sequence early in Sam Mendes’s new WWI epic “1917” that brings that old chestnut into, particularly sharp focus. The film’s protagonists, Lance Corporal Schofield (George MacKay) and Lance Corporal Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), men on a mission of utter urgency and desperation, have just stepped onto the “no man’s land” separating British and German troops in northern France.

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Any new film by Edgar Wright is a cause for celebration from cinema fans everywhere, but a new film rooted in some of the best psychological thrillers in Hollywood history? That’s reason enough to get really excited. Wright has long been one of cinema’s most enjoyable filmmaker-historians; much like the work of Martin Scoresese or Quentin Tarantino, each of Wright’s film feels like the director’s own relationship with film history distilled down to a two-hour runtime.

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