Hollywood filmmaker Jordan Peele won an Oscar for his first film - he's now back with his third.
It's a sci-fi horror called, quite simply, Nope.
After their award-winning collaboration on Get Out, Jordan Peele reunites with his leading man Daniel Kaluuya - this time for a very different kind of horror. This is Nope.
OJ (Kaluuya) and his firebrand of a sister Em run a horse ranch in a deserted Californian valley, training horses for Hollywood.
Soon the recent, rather unusual death of their father becomes increasingly extra, terrestrial, maybe? And the siblings' curiosity becomes an almighty quest for the impossible.
Allow me now to wax lyrical, wafty word-clouds of non-spoilery whimsy which I hope will send you straight to the cinemas rather than ruin that experience.
What you'll find is once upon a Hollywood science-fiction side-hustle western steeped in old-school sitcom child star vibes dipped in a bit of bloody from time to time and with a cup that runneth over when it comes to genuine jump-frights and laugh out louds.
Enough said.
It's a big fat yep to Nope and the less you know the better. Jordan Peele continues to astound, mixing his genres but continuing to amplify his own unique voice. This latest film is his most Hollywood while not being Hollywood at all.
A sci-fi horror was always gonna suck me in and I loved it.
Four-and-a-half stars.
