NOPE TBC
★★★★☆ OUT NOW CINEMAS
DIRECTOR Jordan Peele STARRING Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yuen, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott SCREENPLAY Jordan Peele DISTRIBUTOR Universal RUNNING TIME 135 mins
A black screen. Sounds from a sitcom: peppy line readings, canned laughter. Then… crashing objects, thumps and grunts. Screams rise sharply and stop abruptly. An image comes into focus: a blood-smeared chimp. It sits on a set amid human corpses. The APPLAUSE sign is lit but the banks of chairs are empty.
It’s a killer opening, strange and disquieting. And the weirdness is
