For all the huzzahs deservedly heaped upon 2004’s Shaun of the Dead, in which it took a good long while to discern the living from the walking deceased, the zombie-flick spoof was little more than an ...

The notion that comedy always comes in threes is sometimes taken as an absolute. Triples makes it safe, and the conceit is rather effective, but it can be limiting if is taken as an absolute. Comedy ...

'Rollers', 'five-oh', 'pigs', 'the heat', and the 'Po-Po' are just a few of the many references used to call police. In a couple weeks, the creators of the movie Shaun of the Dead are making the name ...

The original Hot Fuzz script had one major difference from the movie and Edgar Wright ended up cutting it from the movie, which helped differentiate the story from Shaun of the Dead. The first movie ...

The phrase “instant classic” is bandied about often, but the criteria seem to be incredibly nebulous. An instant classic is something so groundbreaking, so masterfully pulled off, that it’s ...

THE BOBBIES ARE BACK IN TOWN Brits get the big guns in an action-movie spoof. When it comes to cinematic crime-solving, the English excel at tweedy murder mysteries set in tidy hamlets. Even on the ...

Hot Fuzz is the fulfillment of most any movie-glutted provincial adolescent’s study-hall daydreams — basically, to turn their town into the set of an action movie smash-up. Filming in his hometown ...