Ex-Kula Shaker frontman Crispian Mills ransacks Bruce Robinson’s Paranoia In The Launderette for his directorial debut about a reclusive writer (Simon Pegg) petrified by his research into Victorian serial killers.
There are things to savour – from co-director Chris Hopewell’s stop-motion interludes to the League Of Gentleman-style oddness of it all.
Pegg shoulders much of the film alone and is left floundering when Mills’ flimsy script derails midway.
Inventive, idiosyncratic?
Yes, but ‘fantastic’ is pushing it.
