Posts Tagged ‘Simon Pegg’
Author: James
A fine finale, s’no word of a lie…
Picturenose would take the opportunity to dedicate this review to Hélène Noël, who passed away on 16 June, 2008.
It took me completely unawares, did Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha’s Ice Age (2002), not unlike falling in love with Hélène, who first showed me the film.
Author: James
Boldly going…again
Reboots – they’re all at it. Following the very successful relaunch of the James Bond franchise with Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008), and some 43 years after Captain James T. Kirk first boarded the USS Enterprise, he’s back!
Author: Colin
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.
Author: Colin
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.
The story – somewhat light though it may be in parts – is simple. A big-city cop gets injured and is shipped off to some backwater town to play out his days until retirement. Nick Angel (Pegg) has an impressive arrest record and a keen eye for laws being broken. It is only fitting, therefore, that his partner should be a bumbling country copper with a distinct preference for Cornetto ice cream over any actual police work.
Author: James
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).
- Colin: Mike: the Matrix was utter toss. Don’t go there. Anyhow, I’m right with you on Aliens –...
- Colin: James: Why not do ten more and see if you can avoid putting the god-awful travesty that is Independence Day in...
- CD: The Day the Earth Stood Still (it’s about an alien who is Jesus…but better than ET) Soylent Green...
- James: Hello Chris, and welcome to Picturenose!
Many thanks for your comment – I thought, in fact, that... - James: Colin, good points, both on Westworld (which should really have been included, I know, I know) and otters.