Picturenose

Whodunnit? More like who didn’t…

Talk about setting yourself up with a film title. This was a film released in late 2006 just begging for bad reviews on account of the easy job supplied by the title. This is a real pity, because I can’t believe the reviewers were watching the same film I saw. First off, it’s not the best film I’ve ever seen - that was, of course, Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow. It does hold its own very well and is a competent, lively and entertaining piece of film-making.

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Derivative dead ringer

Despite inventing the word ‘macabre’, the French rarely venture into the genre from a cinematic perspective; historically, however, when they have, the results have been sometimes sensational - think Henri-Georges Clouzot ’s Les Diaboliques (1955) and Georges Franju’s Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960).

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A policeman’s lot is quite a gruesome one
Another slab of in-your-face comic genius from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and many of the usual suspects from Spaced.

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Copper-bottomed comedy
Messrs Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are fast becoming the benchmark for what it means to be funny – comic actor and writer Pegg first paired up with writer/director Wright for the sensational Spaced sit-com, and they have subsequently worked together on the marvellous ‘not with a bang but a belly-laugh’ zombie pastiche, Shaun of the Dead (2004).

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