by Adam Riske
Some spooky tunes to blast during your Halloween parties.
Showing posts with label shaun of the dead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shaun of the dead. Show all posts
Monday, October 28, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
2K Replay: SHAUN OF THE DEAD
by Adam Riske
Nominated for “Best Comedy Film” at the British Comedy Awards. It lost to School of Rock.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.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
FTM 549: RE-DOING OUR FAVORITE MOVIES OF 2004
Patrick and Erika celebrate their anniversary week by re-doing their list of favorite movies from the year they got married.
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.
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.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
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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!
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?
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?
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