Where Are They Now?: Shaun of the Dead Louise Burrell April 8, 2019 Features, Nostalgia, Where Are They Now? 15 years ago, the team behind cult Channel 4 sitcom Spaced released their love letter to zombie films, Shaun of the Dead. While it had all the jumps, scares, and apocalyptic doom of a great zombie movie, it...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #8 – Mission: Impossible – Fallout Joni Blyth December 24, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Without further ado, for the festive season – the IMDb Trivia Chorus: On the first day of Christmas, Mission Impossible: Fallout gave to me… three thousand set-ups, thirteen helicopters, six...
Slaughterhouse Rulez – Review James Andrews November 2, 2018 Reviews A British comedy horror with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in? (And the debut for their production firm Stolen Picture?) The Shaun of the Dead comparisons are inevitable, but Slaughterhouse Rulez is a different...
Terminal – Review Carmen Paddock July 15, 2018 Reviews Over the course of a deliberately convoluted timeframe, shady characters cross paths and double-cross one another in a neo-noir cityscape (think Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet meets a dystopian Alice in...
Why The World’s End is Edgar Wright’s Best Film Phil W. Bayles June 26, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion "To err is human! So... err... " Hype can be a cruel mistress. After the first two instalments of Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy were respectively one of the best British horror movies of the century so...
Why Hot Fuzz is Edgar Wright’s Best Film David Brake June 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Have you ever wondered why the crime rate in Sandford is so low, yet the accident rate is so high? Ah, the plight of the middle child; stuck between the precocious first-born and the youngster who’s allowed...
Why Shaun of the Dead is Edgar Wright’s Best Film Sinead McCausland June 20, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Fans often underestimate the staying power of Shaun of the Dead, the first of Edgar Wright's "Three Flavours Cornetto" trilogy. When held up against Wright's more recent films like Hot Fuzz, The World's End,...
Your Week In Film: Foy, Flash, Frost & Pegg Stephen O'Nion May 19, 2017 News 1. Jimmy Kimmel will get to have another go at this whole Oscars thing Prepare yourself for a whole lot more jokes about Matt Damon, folks! Jimmy Kimmel has been announced as the host of the 90th Academy...
How Well Do You Know Hot Fuzz? Tom Bond April 20, 2017 Quiz 10 years ago Hot Fuzz burst into our lives and instantly became one of the most entertaining, thrilling, and quotable comedies of the 21st century. Hot off his cult TV series Spaced and the success of Shaun of...
More Than a Laugh: Hot Fuzz Turns 10 Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan April 19, 2017 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Pure comedies don’t take much home come awards season. This makes sense if you're talking about the factory line of studio comedies, but in the case of Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz, it's an outrage. No comedy...
Scene Stealers: Considine and Spall in Hot Fuzz Louise Burrell April 17, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Hot Fuzz is full to the brim with scene-stealing talent. With Simon Pegg and Nick Frost at the helm in the second installment of their Cornetto Trilogy with Edgar Wright, they may be at the centre of some of...
Absolutely Anything – Review Phil W. Bayles August 15, 2015 Reviews A comedy starring the cast of Monty Python and the late Robin Williams - not to mention a smorgasbord of British talent in supporting roles - sounds brilliant on paper, but it only works if you give them funny...
Man Up – Review David Brake May 30, 2015 Reviews In this breezy, 21st century flick, we get a modern day British saviour of the diluted romcom genre. This highly likeable number scores big points through its impressive leads. It's good to see Pegg make a...