Showing posts with label shaun of the dead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shaun of the dead. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

FTM 611: THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY with Clark Collis

Patrick is joined by Clark Collis, Senior Staff writer at EW and author of You've Got Red On You, to talk about Nicolas Cage, zombie rom-coms, and the British crime film The Long Good Friday.

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Great Horror Performances: Simon Pegg in SHAUN OF THE DEAD

by Michael Pomaro
Anyone who has known me for more than 10 minutes knows that Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead is one of my favorite movies. No matter how many times I watch it, and I watch it a lot, I discover new things to love about it. My wife and I caught it on cable a few weeks ago, so naturally we left it on. It was on this viewing that Simon Pegg’s performance stuck out to me in ways it never has before and it left me wondering why.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Like You Were There: Adam Riske at the Edgar Wright Double Feature

On Friday, August 2nd, Mike Pomaro and I went to see a double feature of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz at the glorious Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Edgar Wright was in attendance to introduce the movies and he brought Simon Pegg and Nick Frost along for an extremely funny Q&A. Care to relive the evening with us? 

Thursday, October 6, 2011

10 Horror Comedies

by Patrick Bromley
The horror comedy has proven to be a difficult genre to pull off successfully, because most attempts are neither funny nor scary. They're just monster movies with bad jokes. But it's Scary Movie Month, so let's take a look!

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Review: Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

by Patrick Bromley
I recently got around to seeing Stake Land, the 2010 vampire movie that's pretty much Zombieland (right down to the "land" part) but with vampires. And it's deadly, deadly serious. Sometimes too serious. And while that seriousness sometimes dares to cross over into pretentiousness, I had to give it to the movie for sticking to its guns (wooden stakes) and never trying to crack jokes or waste time "satirizing" the "conventions" of the vampire "genre." We're living in the Age of Irony now, where there are quotes around everything and where it's way easier to to guard yourself against ever seeming too sincere or silly by letting the audience know that it's all a big goof anyway; if something seems lame it's because it's supposed to be lame or if it doesn't work it's because it's not supposed to work. It's "satire," see?