SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL!!!

SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) d. Edgar Wright (UK)

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When Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead, a romantic comedy with zombies (or zom-rom-com, as it was immediately dubbed by pundits) hit theaters in 2004, it instantly earned a place alongside The Return of the Living Dead (1985) and Peter Jackson’s Braindead (aka Dead-Alive) (1992) as one of the best horror/comedies of all time, as well as a winning tale of love and true friendship.

SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) DVD Review

Shaun of the Dead (2004) d. Edgar Wright (UK)

Edgar Wright’s crowd-pleasing feature debut, a zombie comedy romance (or zom-rom-com, as pundits immediately dubbed it), instantly earned its place alongside such luminaries as The Return of the Living Dead and Peter Jackson’s Braindead (aka Dead-Alive). It was, quite simply, one of the best horror films – not to mention comedies – in years, as well as a winning tale of friendship and true love.

BURKE & HARE (2010) movie review

Burke & Hare (2010) d. Landis, John (UK)

“This is a true story. Except for the parts that are not.” Engaging horror/comedy about the infamous pair of 19th century Edinburgh confidence men who resort to grave robbing (and eventually bumbling murder), embodied by the superb comic team of Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis. Tom Wilkinson stars as eminent surgeon Robert Knox, complicit in the duo’s crimes in the interest of furthering science. Pegg’s Spaced co-star Jessica (formerly Stevenson) Hynes is terrific as Serkis’ conniving bawdy bride while Isla Fisher’s fetching barmaid turns on the sexy-cute in the hopes of finding a financier for her theatrical aspirations.

A FANTASTIC FEAR OF EVERYTHING (2012) movie review

A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) d. Mills, Crispian / Hopewell, Chris (UK)

As a deeply paranoid writer of children’s books, the usually infallible Simon Pegg shrieks and mugs his way through an exhausting 100 minutes that had me honestly flummoxed by the screaming gales of laughter around me. Seriously, it was one of those times where it felt like my fellow audience members were somehow watching a different, exponentially superior film than I, giggling hysterically every time Pegg (who also exec-produced) twitched this way or that. Things admittedly pick up in the final act with a laundromat sequence that literally spirals downward into surprisingly dark terrain, but for the most part it’s all frantic frenetics without the funny.