"Three chords and the truth" reads the tattoo on the right forearm of Rose-Lynn Harlan. That fundamental recipe was coined by another Harlan, American songwriter Harlan Howard providing his abiding definition of country music in the 1950's. This is the sort of thing Rose Harlan would know, country music historian and aspirant that she is. Unlike many a music enthusiast from the United Kingdom, Rose has a deeper knowledge of and feeling for American roots music than most Americans. One of the strengths of Wild Rose is that we are dealing in a fairly genuine country music here (not "Country & Western;" Rose bristles whenever anyone attaches that common old term to her singing), as opposed to the sort of bathetic sludge that tends to clog "country" radio these days in America. Wild Rose is like a deeply felt old country song, a bit careworn and certainly predictable. But thanks to Jessie Buckley, playing Rose with a bone-deep consistency,
We have seen the red-jumpsuit-wearing, scissors wielding, disturbingly feral enemy and they are...us? So it does appear in the second film from the enormously successful Jordan Peele. Mr. Peele has given us another horror film of sorts, one in which the doppelgangers, the ones in the jumpsuits, are none to happy. And who can blame them, really? For starters, this apparently large population of doppelgangers has been waiting. A long time. A pre-title sequence goes to some pains to let us know, both explicitly and with tokens of Reagan Administration America, that it's 1986. Like Josh Baskin in Big , little Adelaide Thomas (Madison Curry), wanders toward a mysterious, set apart attraction at a boardwalk carnival and much chaos ensues several decades on. Adelaide enters a kind of funhouse called "Find Yourself." There's something of a Native American theme to this attraction, and we hear a Native American voice speaking as the little girl wanders