By Simon Miraudo March 17, 2014 Cuban Fury is, according to its opening credits, based on an “original idea” by star Nick Frost. The “original” part of that sentence might be stretching it a tad. It’s an amiable rom-com about unlucky-in-love British engineer Bruce and his attempts to woo new American boss, the way-out-of-his-league Julia. […]
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Interview: Edgar Wright (The World’s End)
July 24, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo July 24, 2013 Director Edgar Wright reunites with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for The World’s End, the final instalment of their ‘Three Flavours Cornetto’ trilogy. Following on from previous instalments Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, it concerns a quintet of developmentally arrested forty-somethings eager to attempt the Golden Mile: […]
Continue readingCheers – The World’s End review
July 22, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 22, 2013 Edgar Wright is one of the lucky few: a born filmmaker. Despite a minor set-back with the box office failure of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (though certainly not creative failure), he returns to the comforting embrace of co-conspirators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for the final instalment of […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: The World’s End
May 9, 2013 1 Comment
The teaser trailer for The World’s End, director Edgar Wright’s latest collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, has arrived online. The trio has described their long-awaited follow-up to zombie spoof Shaun of the Dead and cop-movie satire Hot Fuzz as the final instalment of their Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy. As you may be able to guess by it’s title, […]
Continue readingMartin Freeman and Eddie Marsan join Wright and Pegg’s The World’s End
October 3, 2012 0 Comments
Empire recently reported that Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan have joined the cast of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s long-awaited third collaboration, The World’s End. After Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, we have all been eagerly awaiting the final film in what Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg have dubbed the ‘Three Flavours Cornetto’ […]
Continue readingRosamund Pike in Edgar Wright’s The World’s End
August 13, 2012 1 Comment
Rosamund Pike will join Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for the final instalment of Edgar Wright‘s “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy, The World’s End. According to The Daily Mail, Pike will flex her funny bone in an as-yet unspecified role. Pegg, Frost, and Wright have long described their apocalyptic The World’s End as the final instalment of a trilogy that began with zombie […]
Continue readingEdgar Wright teams with J.J. Abrams for Collider
July 30, 2012 1 Comment
Edgar Wright and J.J. Abrams will team up as producers for a new sci-fi drama entitled Collider, Deadline reports. Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Shaun of the Dead) will direct the film and share co-writing credit with Mark Protosevich (Thor, I Am Legend). He will also co-produce along with Abrams through his Bad Robot […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: The World’s End
July 16, 2012 0 Comments
The teaser poster for Edgar Wright‘s latest collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The World’s End, has arrived a mere month before shooting officially begins. If you’re perplexed by the seeming non-sequiturs on this one-sheet for a movie about the apocalypse, don’t be: ’tis but a listing of famous taverns. Here’s the official synopsis: “20 years after […]
Continue readingFair play – Snow White and the Huntsman review
June 21, 2012 1 Comment
Snow White and the Huntsman – Starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, and Charlize Theron. Directed by Rupert Sanders. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Rupert Sanders‘ revisionist adaptation of the Snow White saga takes its cues from two recent fantastical period pieces rather than the Grimm brothers’ original legend: Peter Jackson‘s Lord of the Rings trilogy […]
Continue readingEdgar Wright might shoot Ant-Man this year
May 17, 2012 1 Comment
Edgar Wright is suddenly a very busy man. Just last week it was revealed he would finally reunite with Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost for The World’s End, and now it looks like his long-gestating superhero flick Ant-Man is getting off the ground too. Wright has been attached to direct Marvel’s Ant-Man for quite some time; he worked on the script with Joe Cornish (Attack the Block). […]
Continue readingWright, Pegg, and Frost’s The World’s End gets start date
May 10, 2012 0 Comments
After years of hints, taunts, rumours, and prayers, a start date has been set for Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost‘s third feature film collaboration, The World’s End. According to Deadline, Working Title wants to begin production in September. That’s mere months away! The trio has long described The World’s End as the final instalment of their Three […]
Continue readingEdgar Wright to direct Johnny Depp in The Night Stalker
February 23, 2012 1 Comment
Edgar Wright has finally booked his follow-up to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, though his most devoted fans may be disappointed to learn it isn’t Ant-Man or his long-gestating third collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, apocalypse-comedy At World’s End. According to Deadline, Wright will direct The Night Stalker for Disney. It is a remake of a 1972 telemovie of the […]
Continue readingDouble spaced – Paul review
April 12, 2011 0 Comments
Paul – Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen. Directed by Greg Mottola. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Paul is a fun tribute to sci-fi films (and film geekery in general), but did it have to be so … dumb? Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the writers and stars of this road-movie-cum-science-fiction-spoof, have proven […]
Continue reading>New trailer for Paul longer, funnier
January 7, 2011 2 Comments
>That headline kind of sums it up, but an extended trailer for Greg Mottola‘s sci-fi comedy Paul has debuted online. Paul stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (who also penned the screenplay) as a couple of sci-fi geeks who meet an alien on the way to Area 51. Seth Rogen gave a motion-captured performance as […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: Paul
October 19, 2010 0 Comments
Back in May of 2009, we (rhetorically) asked if Greg Mottola‘s sci-fi flick Paul had “the comedy cast of the year”. Which year were we talking about? It’s hard to say. But our basic sentiment was that Paul featured a cavalcade of brilliant comic performers. We now have our first glimpse of them in action, […]
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