Despite looking, sounding and acting like a postscript to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Cornetto Trilogy (Pegg and Frost are even in the cast!), it is not. But this tale of a nightmare unleashed when a sinkhole caused by fracking leads ‘straight to hell’ does for posh British schools what Pegg and Simon did for […]
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Python, Pegg & Williams Trailer: Absolutely Anything!
As an experiment, a group of eccentric aliens confer a human being with the power to do absolutely anything – If he uses his gift well the planet lives; if not… How’s that working out? Well, he’s given his dog the ability to talk… Absolutely Anything stars Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale and Robin Williams as Dennis, the […]
Anti-IMF Trailer: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation!
There’s an anti-IMF organization out there called The Syndicate – the rogue nation of the film’s title. The only tool we have for beating The Syndicate is the Impossible Missions Force – or rather, did. The IMF has just been dissolved and its members are wanted by the CIA. Check out the new trailer after […]
Mission: Impossible 5 To Be Released in IMAX®!
After the success of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, in which several scenes were filmed in IMAX, the Christopher McQuarrie -directed fifth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise will also be digitally remastered for IMAX. Mission: Impossible 5 reunites stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames. New to the series are Alec Baldwin, Rebecca Ferguson and Sean […]
Hector Mitty; Walter’s Search for Happiness!
I’ve seen Hector and the Search for Happiness three times and a bit – only the first two were versions of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Danny Kaye, 1947 and Ben Stiller, 2013) and the bit was parts of a TV series called My World and Welcome To It, all of which were based […]
Whimsical Trailer: Hector and the Search for Happiness!
It’s always fun when a movie title describes precisely what’s in the box. Hector and the Search for Happiness. Seriously, what more do you need to know? Other than that it’s one of the films making its North American Premiere at the Toronto Film Festival – and that it stars Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni […]
The World’s End Saves The Dog Days Of Summer!
L. Frank Baum wrote, ‘There’s no place like home.’ Thomas Wolfe coined the expression, ‘You can’t go home again.’ Oddly enough both expressions apply to the final film in Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours: Cornetto Trilogy – possibly the best of the summer blockbusters and a pure delight to encounter as summer tentpoles get more and […]
Featurette: Wright, Pegg & Frost Talk The World’s End!
Edgar Wright’s The World’s End might the final entry in the so-called Cornetto Trilogy, but there’s a lot more than that going on in it. Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost talk about some of the movie’s themes in a new featurette, Not What It Used To Be (as in ‘The future…’). Check […]
The World’s End Featurettes: The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy and Director at Work
Yes, it’s true – The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy will be complete with the August 23rd launch of The World’s End. Explore the themes of the trilogy in the featurette above and then follow the jump to get some of the cast’s insights into how director Edgar Wright (whose next project with be Marvel’s Ant-Man […]
The World’s End – The World’s Most Dangerous Pub Crawl Has an American Trailer!
The final chapter of the loose trilogy formed with Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz is nigh! Edgar Wright’s The World’s End takes the concept of consequences of the pub crawl way beyond a mere hangover as his five protagonists return to their hometown to complete the epic crawl they failed to finish year […]
Hot International Trailer: It’s the End of the World–At The World’s End!
Five guys, twelve pubs, sixty pints – only things have changed on the Golden Mile… From the writing team of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) comes The World’s End – five guys trying to finish an epic pub crawl that they totally failed to complete years before. Only, when […]