Film & Television
John Maguire: Peele dials up the tension again for another creepy thriller
The acclaimed director’s latest outing, Nope, is centred on a UFO sighting in a remote corner of California
“What’s a bad miracle?” Otis Haywood jr (Daniel Kaluuya) asks his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) early on in Jordan Peele’s tantalisingly creepy Nope. OJ, as he prefers to be called, is convinced he’s just seen a flat, circular UFO in the endless night sky over their horse ranch in a remote corner of California, and doesn’t quite know how to process the evidence of his own eyes. The next night, they both see it, a ...