Articles tagged "nick frost"

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: August 2009

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.09] :. With names like Tarantino, Lee, and Zombie, the final month of the season pulls out all the film geek stops. Still, the only guarantee is familiarity, not freshness.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

TV Feature

The New Golden Age of British TV Comedy

by Evan Sawdey

[2.Feb.09] :. Every once in awhile, Britain rules over America. The Office, Spaced, Coupling and other British shows are gradually narrowing the Atlantic-sized gap between the United States and England.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 
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TV DVD Review

Spaced: The Complete Series

by Evan Sawdey

[28.Jul.08] :. Call it the British equivalent of Arrested Development, the next step following Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared -- just make sure you call it absolutely brilliant.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

‘Bad Boys’ influenced the British makers of ‘Hot Fuzz’

by Joshua Klein [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[28.Jul.07] :. The British comedy “Hot Fuzz,” out this week on DVD, plays like a compendium of every action movie and cop thriller cliche ever made. The brilliance of creators Simon Pegg and Edgar...

 

Hot Fuzz (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[24.Apr.07] :. Hot Fuzz is all about the guys. And who needs girls when you have guns?

 

‘Hot Fuzz’: Filmakers approve the use of deadly farce

by Phoebe Flowers [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

[20.Apr.07] :. "The one word that we bristle at is 'spoof.'"

 

‘Hot Fuzz’: An Over-the-top Brit-riff

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Simon Pegg is the silliest David Caruso since the real one in Hot Fuzz, an over-the-top Brit-riff on cop movies, cop shows and the CSI age we live in. All that’s missing are the...

 

Taking aim at cop movies with ‘Hot Fuzz’

by Jeff Strickler [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[19.Apr.07] :. Most filmmakers hate the city-a-day promotion tours that inevitably end up producing a lot more sitting around—in airports, airplanes, taxis, hotel rooms and restaurants—than promoting....

 

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Sep.04] :. Casting Bill Nighy as a zombie -- or more accurately, a zombie to be -- may not be precisely innovative, but it's clever and wholly enjoyable.