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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

February Film Club

 For the month of February we will be watching Edgar Wright's masterful Baby Driver.

Baby Driver is a 2017 action crime film written and directed by Edgar Wright. It stars Ansel Elgort as a getaway driver seeking freedom from a life of crime with his girlfriend Debora (Lily James). Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Eiza Gonzalez, Jamie Foxx and Jon Bernthal appear in supporting roles.

The film was well received by the media for its craftmanship and style. It has a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Brian Tallerico, writing for Rogerebert.com gave it 3.5/4 stars saying this in his review, "As CGI robots clang into each other and superheroes take to the sky, here's Wright to ask if you remember how movies used to thrill us with a turn of phrase, a squeal of a wheel, a diving plot twist, or a romantic kiss. Baby Driver feels both influenced by the modern era of self-aware, pop-culture filmmaking and charmingly old-fashioned at the same time, which is only one of its minor miracles. It's fluid and jaw-dropping-the kind of thing you want to see immediately again after it's over to catch all the things you missed."

We will be meeting Thursday, Feb. 23rd at 5:30pm

Here's the trailer: