PREVIEW: THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (15)
production Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, Rowling knows how to satisfy fans without shamelessly pandering to them.
The script skilfully acknowledges her magical canon – scenes at Hogwarts briefly reveal a young and flinty Minerva McGonagall (Fiona Glascott) – as she drops narrative bombshells with laser-targeted precision to satisfying, loud gasps.
Redmayne endears us even more to his socially awkward loner as he brandishes a wand in the name of creatures great and monstrous.
Production design and costumes are a heaving banquet for the eyes, garnished throughout with special effects conjured by an unseen army of digital wizards.
Yates’s prelude to all-out-war is spellbinding. OSCAR-WINNING siblings Joel and Ethan Coen co-direct and co-write this western anthology. In the title story, gunslinger Buster Scruggs (Tim Blake Nelson) sings beautifully as he casually pulls the trigger on opponents while in Near Algodones, a thieving cowboy (James Franco) puts his neck on the line to outwit a bank teller (Stephen Root). In Meal Ticket, a traveller (Liam Neeson) and his performing compatriot (Harry Melling) hope to impress frontier towns with their oration, while, The Gal Who Got Rattled, focuses on a woman (Zoe Kazan), who is hoping to find a brighter future.
Streaming and available to download from November 16 exclusively on Netflix.