#The button down brass tequila driver#

Mark Kermode will deliver this year’s Philip French memorial lecture on Tuesday 18 July as part of Cinema Rediscovered at the Bristol Festival of Ideas. For something with a little more torque, then, Baby, it’s you. If you want a soporific night out, go see Hampstead. As for Wright, he directs with the confidence of someone who can afford to pay fanboy homage to his antecedents, whether casting Paul Williams as the Butcher in a nod to Smokey and the Bandit, or getting Kevin Spacey to bark “Don’t feed me any more lines from Monsters Inc… it pisses me off!”Ī top-flight stunt co-ordination team (Darrin Prescott, Robert Nagle, Jeremy Fry) and a hip choreographer (Ryan Heffington) work together in perfect harmony, while cinematographer Bill Pope uses the Atlanta locations with the same affection that John Landis brought to Chicago in The Blues Brothers. “You’re either hard as nails or scared as shit,” Baby is told, although like the young bucks of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or Risky Business, he’s actually a bit of both. At work he’s surrounded by wild cards: Buddy and Darling (Jon Hamm and Eiza González), a latter-day Bonnie and Clyde with matching his and hers tattoos Bats (Jamie Foxx), a loose cannon who claims the monopoly on “mental problems” Jon Bernthal’s ever-gruff Griff rocker Flea’s Eddie No-Nose (formerly Eddie the Nose – don’t ask) and Lanny Joon’s JD, who “puts the Asian in home invasion”. At home he cares for foster father Joseph (CJ Jones), who listens to music with his fingertips, and from whom Baby has learned signing and lip-reading – invaluable skills.

#The button down brass tequila driver#

Think An American in Paris meets The French Connection, or Walter Hill’s The Driver as remade by Baz Luhrmann – it really is that much of a blast.Īccidentally indebted to smooth criminal Doc (Kevin Spacey), Baby is always “one more job” away from freedom. Whether he’s burning rubber or fixing a peanut butter sandwich (“right up to the edges”), this former joyrider spins his wheels and records with the same infectious exuberance. Tequila The Button Down Brass Band An off-brand cover of the The Champs song from 1958 by an off-brand British copy of Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass. At its centre is Ansel Elgort’s eponymous getaway driver, who uses earphones to drown out the “hum-in-the-drum” of tinnitus (the result of a childhood accident) and orchestrates his life to carefully chosen iPod playlists. A romantic musical disguised as a car-chase thriller, Baby Driver combines the over-cranked action fantasies of Hot Fuzz with the poptastic sensibilities of Scott Pilgrim vs the World. A fter wisely walking away from the car crash of Marvel’s 2015 film Ant-Man, Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright is back in the fast lane with his most thrillingly cinematic romp.