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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the actor-writers of two the very best comic horror films of the previous decade: SHAUN OF THE DEAD and HOT FUZZ.  SHAUN OF THE DEAD brilliantly and humorously used zombies as a metaphor for braindead slobs working braindead jobs, an appalling fate to which much of the populace can [...]

[ March 18, 2011 to March 20, 2011. ] Universal Pictures releases this science-fiction comedy, about two British comic-book geeks (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) who encounter a smart-ass alien who wants to escape from the top-secret military facility at Area 51. Taking their new friend for a ride, our hapless heroes are pursued by federal agents and by the father of a [...]

Alien road-trip film from the SHAUN OF THE DEAD guys.

A new hunting scene for the Special Edition
As you all know, AVATAR is back on the big screen, showing exclusively in Digital 3-D and IMAX 3-D engagements. As you also know, this release is billed as the “Special Edition,” because writer-director James Cameron has restored nearly nine minutes of footage, expanding the already lengthy film’s running [...]

Hollywood Reporter notes that Sigourney Weaver (ALIEN, GHOSTBUSTERS, AVATAR) has been cast the vampire queen Ciccerus in VAMPS, a horror-comedy from writer-director Amy Heckerling (CLUELESS, LOOK WHO’S TALKING). Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter are set to play beautiful young vampires whose immortality is threatened when they fall in love with mortals; Ciccerus is the age-old [...]

Despite a premise that sounds far from promising, GALAXY QUEST turns out to be an amusing adventure that ofers both good comedy and reasonably exciting science fiction; its obvious inspiration is the STAR TREK franchise, and it manages to best the majority of those films. The basic idea is to take some actors with a [...]

GALAXY QUEST was one of 2000’s nicest surprises; a sci-fi comedy that was neither snarky nor silly with a cast of both seasoned comic and more traditionally dramatic actors. The sci-fi spoof genre is littered with titles like Quark and Homeboys from Outer Space – not the sort of heap that anyone would want to [...]