Alex Huston Fischer
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As we’ve learned from stories like Edward Scissorhands, Pinocchio, and Lars and the Real Girl, few things teach us more about what it means to be fully human and alive than creatures crafted by an artist's hands…
In many ways, Wicker feels like medieval Edward Scissorhands, with every frame bursting to life with artistic brilliance.
He is reminiscent of Johnny Depp’s Edward Scissorhands, a bit shy and awkward, speaking slowly and honestly.
A lot of the humor comes from their blissful ignorance of the fate of the world while they’re trying to stop themselves from looking online, and reminded me of the beginning of “Shaun of the Dead.”
If Simon Pegg wandering his neighborhood in a hung over daze, oblivious to the zombies and carnage, is your favorite Shaun Of The Dead sequence, here’s an extended remix of that basic idea, facilitating plenty of background gags even as millennial oversensitivity gets razzed up front.
There’s lots to enjoy in this inventive, clever film that plays like a screwball War of the Worlds filtered through Shaun of the Dead .
Save Yourselves! is a sci-fi horror comedy in the tradition of Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland.
Like Joaquin Phoenix’s introverted Theodore Twombly in Her finding “Samantha,” or Ryan Gosling’s titular character in Lars and the Real Girl toting around a life-sized doll, Fisherwoman is a better person with Husband in her life.
As we’ve learned from stories like Edward Scissorhands, Pinocchio, and Lars and the Real Girl, few things teach us more about what it means to be fully human and alive than creatures crafted by an artist's hands…
As we’ve learned from stories like Edward Scissorhands, Pinocchio, and Lars and the Real Girl, few things teach us more about what it means to be fully human and alive than creatures crafted by an artist's hands…
This gives more power to an ending that brings everything “full circle” with a denouncement worthy of the “Twilight Zone” and even the old EC horror comics (and their cousin, Mad magazine).
Wilson and Huston make great use of the Budapest locations that riff on the squalor of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (minus the plague).
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Directed by Jay Roach
influenced Wicker (2026)
Themes
…the wedded writing-directing team unafraid to flaunt irreverence to a degree that would make Austin Powers blush…
…see an analog comparison to Spike Jonze’s Oscar-nominated 2013 masterpiece Her. The two films couldn’t be farther apart in terms of polish and setting, yet the narrative goals for finding substantial love from artificial, yet affirming places are wholly unified.
Wickeris far from Fifty Shades of Grey (thankfully), but it will still have you submitting to its message about how deep and delicate human love is.
It’s positively reminiscent in tone of a 2019 Sundance entry, Judy & Punch, using a period setting and fantasy enhancement to unearth timeless truths about the human condition.
…as with Walter Hill’s The Driver, all the characters are identified by their professions…
There are also traces of “Shrek” in its DNA, with Colman’s Fisherwoman starting out as a cranky ogre, relentlessly mocked despite being her hamlet’s essential and sole fish supplier.
Not since "Little Otik" has a botanical creation made such a cinematic impact, but "Wicker" has a far more human heart.
…progress seems underway since the rough yet disarmingly tender “Pillion” gently muscled its way onto our screens a year ago…
…the actor who has recently done such brilliant work in “Succession,” “Pillion,” and “The Moment.”
…unlike his role in “Pillion” (2025), the Wicker Husband is an innocent…
Alexander Skarsgård, of Pillion…
Olivia Colman has played characters like Fisherwoman before, notably in 2023’s Wicked Little Letters…
…reprising her foul-mouthed turn in Wicked Little Letters…
Colman well-experienced with this kind of part thanks to past roles in Wicked Little Letters and Wonka, among others.