TV Reviews6/10
Truth Seekers Review: Frost and Pegg’s Ghost-Hunting Comedy Can’t Escape Its Own Limits
Two broadband engineers chase ghosts for a YouTube channel in Truth Seekers, a comedy that struggles to scare you.
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TV Reviews7.9/10
Spaced at 27: The Anti-Friends That Understood Its Era’s Twenty-Somethings Best
Spaced, the 1999 Channel 4 sitcom by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright, ran 14 episodes across two series. A look back at the anti-Friends.
Movie Reviews8.1/10
The World’s End (2013) Review: Edgar Wright’s Pub-Crawl Apocalypse Closes the Cornetto Trilogy
Edgar Wright's The World's End (2013) sends Gary King on a 12-pub crawl that ends the world. A review of the Cornetto trilogy's final, saddest film.
TV Reviews8.6/10
I Am Not an Animal: Peter Baynham’s Six-Episode Vivisection Lab Comedy Still Bites
A review of Peter Baynham's I Am Not an Animal, the 2004 BBC Two black comedy about talking animals in a four-star vivisection lab.
Movie Reviews7/10
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Alien Road Trip Comedy Puts the Fanboys in the Saucer
Paul (2011): Pegg and Frost road-trip the Southwest, meet a foul-mouthed alien voiced by Seth Rogen, and pay tribute to Spielberg. Review.
Movie Reviews6.8/10
Star Trek Beyond: 6.8 of 10
Star Trek Beyond review: the Enterprise falls on Altamid, Krall hunts the Abronath, and the reboot crew faces what Starfleet is for. Score: 6.8 of 10.
Movie Reviews8.1/10
Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz Turns the British Cop Movie Into a Bloodbath of Small-Town Boredom
Hot Fuzz review: Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's 2007 action-comedy about a big-city cop exiled to a murderous English village, scored 8.1/10.
Movie Reviews7.5/10
Edgar Wright’s zombie breakout still lands because the romance is played straight
Shaun of the Dead at 20: how Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg built a rom-com with zombies, the Winchester, and a swingball pole on a $6.1M budget.