Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright

@edgarwright.bsky.social

Spaced / Shaun Of The Dead / Hot Fuzz / Scott Pilgrim Vs The World / The World’s End / Baby Driver / The Sparks Brothers / Last Night In Soho / The Running Man

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TODAY! UK / Ireland! My new movie @runningmanmovie is available to rent or buy, with tons of extra features available through select Digital Retailers. BluRay and Steel-book in March. We’re very proud of this wild adventure. I do hope you enjoy!!!

Hey UK / Ireland! My new movie @runningmanmovie is available to rent or buy TOMORROW! There’s also tons of extra features available through select Digital Retailers. We had a blast making this. Hope you have exactly the same watching it. Enjoy!!!

See you on the big screen." - Our @runningmanmovie is on big screen right NOW, so go see it as large and as loud you can. We had a complete blast making it, I hope you have the same watching. Go see it TODAY and report back. Enjoy!!!

It's on! Reality TV just got real. Tickets go on sale TOMORROW for #RunningManMovie. Cannot wait for you to see. On the big screen, large and loud, November 14. (NB - Opens Nov 12 in UK and other territories!)

Second sold out show for Sparks at the Royal Albert Hall and another triumph. Very proud to take the traditional end-of-show photo, this time with their amazing band: Evan Weiss, Eli Pearl, Max Whipple and Stevie Nistor. If you were there, let us know!

What an incredible night seeing Sparks play the Royal Albert Hall for the first time. Was so proud to take this photo at the end of this amazing concert. Such a great show. Just electric. Let us know if you were there x Viva Sparks! ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Ron & Russell moved to London to record ‘Kimono My House’ in 1973 and lived in a basement flat in Thurloe Square. That place was a 10 minute walk from the Albert Hall and - taking the long way round - here they are 50 years later.

I come to rave. Today, SPARKS release their 26th album, 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' and I highly recommend listening from start to finish. It's the first to be written after my doc on the legendary Ron & Russell Mael and it made me swell with pride once more.

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I've raved enough. 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' is available everywhere as we speak. Take a listen, buy the exquisite vinyl edition if you wish, but most importantly, I hope you enjoy it on repeat, as I have. Do let me know if you love it too.

I come to rave. Today, SPARKS release their 26th album, 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' and I highly recommend listening from start to finish. It's the first to be written after my doc on the legendary Ron & Russell Mael and it made me swell with pride once more.

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There's the brutal 'When You Leave', about how much better a social event becomes once YOU’VE departed. And 'Love Story' introduces the alarmingly specific tale of someone to trying to save his spot in line while scoring drugs for their girlfriend. I believe this is a first.

The album closes with the rousing 'It Doesn't Have To Be That Way' and heartbreaking chaser 'Gee That Was Fun.' The latter, just stops me dead. It's another melancholic, dryly funny example of Sparks' mastery of bittersweet bangers.

I come to rave. Today, SPARKS release their 26th album, 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' and I highly recommend listening from start to finish. It's the first to be written after my doc on the legendary Ron & Russell Mael and it made me swell with pride once more.

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The opening trio of singles, 'Latte', 'Veronica Lake' and 'Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is', followed by the minimalist gem of missed connections 'Escalator' exemplifies everything that is Sparks; simultaneously funny, profound, inventive, and irresistibly catchy.

Other standouts include the infectious melody of 'You Were Meant For Me', the anthemic 'Not That Well Defined', and the boisterous middle 8 of 'Take Me For A Ride' which chants, "LET'S GO, LET'S GO LAURA!".

I come to rave. Today, SPARKS release their 26th album, 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' and I highly recommend listening from start to finish. It's the first to be written after my doc on the legendary Ron & Russell Mael and it made me swell with pride once more.

It's also their first LP on Island Records since their mid-70s breakthrough. But don't call it a comeback! Sparks are staggering in their irrepressible invention and alarming consistency. Name another band where an album in their sixth decade ranks among their finest. You can't.

So, it pleases me to no end to call 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' another triumphant classic. Packed with brilliant melodies, keen observations and witty lyrics, this album could be a greatest hits collection on its own or it could be your FIRST introduction to Sparks.

Disappeared into #theeightmountains and didn’t want to come back. A gorgeous epic about friendship, adventure and some cheese making from Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch, starring Luca Marinelli & my amico Alessandro Borghi. Made me want to jack it all in and venture into the wild…

Am in awe of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON. A profoundly powerful & disturbing film on an open wound subject. It's both intimate & epic, vividly tangible & exquisitely rendered by Martin Scorsese on incendiary form. Perhaps his best of this century. A must see on the big screen. 1/3

The cast, led by DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone & Robert De Niro, are exceptional, the latter in one of his wiliest performances, right down to his final seconds. To see this epidemic of insidious gaslighting brought to graphic life, is urgent & sobering. You won’t stop thinking about it.

Woke at 6 AM (after 4 hours sleep). Showered. Got dressed. Jumped in a cab. Was onstage with Ruth Wilson at the Young Vic theatre at 7:45 AM for her 24 hour play ‘The Second Woman’. I played one of 100 men in the part of ‘Marty’. 1/3

Performed the 3 page dialogue scene. Got some laughs. Called her ‘Virginia’ “unflappable any hour of the day or night”. Ate noodles with her Lady & The Tramp style. She took off my shoes and danced in them. I put on her heels and danced in them. Off stage by 8 AM. It was electric. Would recommend.

Congrats to Ruth Wilson & the whole team for this theatrical experience. What a wild marathon. I was terrified but very proud to be 'Marty' for 15 minutes. Walking onstage to meet her Virginia with no prior discussion is one of the craziest things I've done. She's incredible.

I am jammy (lucky) enough to have seen both of the two big films trailered this week; one is just as magnificently entertaining and exciting as you dream it might be, and the other is a stunning, stirring epic that may well be the best work from the director in this century. Great cinema incoming…

I just randomly heard ‘Dance Yourself Dizzy’ by Liquid Gold, which is one of the uncoolest and therefore coolest bangers of them all. This one has double the nostalgic wallop for me as, at age 5, I listened it on vinyl as part of K-Tel’s ‘Star Traks’ compilation and then 19 years later…

Don’t sleep on Daniel Goldhaber’s ‘How To Blow Up A Pipeline’, one of the best films of 2023. Thrilling, urgent and angry, but as focused on the humans involved as the pressing issues at hand. Brilliantly structured and edited too. And a superb, insistent score by Gavin Brivik. Do see it.