Wafflings of a Cozmonaught

Last Night in Soho (2021) - directed by Edgar Wright Man, I was really hyped for this thing when the trailer first dropped last year. A real classic ghost story with the typical surrealist craziness that European cinema is known for. Instead what I got for most of the film is QWOP in London. LNiS follows one Ellie Turner, who moves to the Swinging City to pursue her fashion dreams. In doing so, she is able to escape her hick village in Cornwall and the ghost of her mum which apparently didn't have quite enough quid for the fare. Rapid inflation is really taking a toll on the deceased too, it would seem. While adjusting to her new home, our heroine receives visions of the past and revels in living in the life of a 1960's Londonite. This movie was a particularly frustrating one because I can see the potential at the heart of this film; its trailer made most horror fans start drooling for a reason. But the chasey sequences are too long, the relationships too shallow, and overall d...