For as long as he can remember, the great chase films were whirling around in Edgar Wright's mind (as they do us all). Great films like Walter Hill’s The Driver, John Landis’ The Blues Brothers and Richard C. Sarafian’s incredible Vanishing Point to name but three. For twenty odd years, Wright has wanted to honour them and put his own, very singular, stamp on the genre. With Baby Driver he has crafted something special, his very own car chase musical.
Read MoreThe credits rolled and the house lights slowly started to come up at the end of Mad Max: Fury Road. I turned to my companions, Stevie (of many Croydon bands you've never heard of) and Ali (podcast editor for a rather well known movie magazine, whom I’d held to ransom to get us in), and we shared the same look of confused, exhilarated, bliss. Even now, 18 hours or so after we walked back into Leicester Square, my head is still spinning at the experience of returning to George Miller’s wasteland road war.
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