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How do you avoid a Britcom flop?
Shaun of the Dead was good, Sex Lives of the Potato Men was bad. So how do you avoid a Britcom disaster? Spaced, but different a Shaun of the Dead.
Nick Frost to star in BBC2 adaptation of Martin Amis's Money
Nick Frost will star in a BBC2 adaptation of Martin Amis's Money and Sophie Dahl will present a cookery show in the new season of programmes for early 2010.
Ceramic Swear Bank helps you save your extra !@#$ing cash
The Sandford police department from the film Hot Fuzz would definitely appreciate this particular device.
Dan Aykroyd Cast in Burke and Hare
This may night be the reunion you were looking for , but Dan Aykroyd 's most recent film gig is still pretty eventful.
You've got to hand it to a movie that can put Jeff Bridges, White Russians and the word "Lebowski" in close proximity to one another and make it seem mere coincidence.
If you've ever rented a grotty flat, done a rubbish job or watched a lot of 90s telly and films, you'll love Spaced Few sitcoms demonstrate how to escape a teenage mugging using the power of mime, how to use "sex noise" sound effects to fool your landlady, how to profess your sorrow through the medium of a tank, or how to liberate kidnapped pets ...
Nick Frost on Tintin, Paul & World's End
ComingSoon.net attended the UK press junket for Richard Curtis' Pirate Radio , at which we spoke with actor Nick Frost, who plays ultra-hip '60s DJ "Doctor Dave." During the roundtable interview, the subject of Frost's next film Paul came up.
Nicholas Angel and Danny Butterman have a willy fight! Hot Fuzz slash ...
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. You might not get a HOT FUZZ sequel, but now thanks to advent of a device called Twitter you can get a peek at the creative minds behind the film as they delve into the horrific world of slash fiction.
As Halloween approaches, DVDs for fright nights
It's mid-October and already you're stuck in a Halloween DVD rut, resigned to "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and movies that star silent serial killer Michael Myers.
'The Mighty Boosh' takes deadpan jokes through time and space
October 16, 2009 at 3:52 pm by Curt Holman in Comedy , Pop Culture , movies & tv , review During a tumultuous downer of a decade, it's been awfully decent of the British to deliver up so many great comedy teams to distract us from out troubles.
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Top ten celebrity tweets about Balloon Boy
Simon Pegg's advice for Falcon: Escape! Escape! The Twitterspere absolutely exploded yesterday with commentary about accidental-whistle-blowing , Today -show-vomiting Balloon Boy Falcon Heene , with celebrities among the countless thousands exercising their fingers on the topic both before and after the lad tottered out of the attic and onto the ...
Pining for the golden age of the movie poster? Just make your own
The dull production-line nature of current film ads has prompted a spate of pastiches that hark back to classier times a ' and the results are as stunning as they are disorientating A design classic a The original promotional poster for North By Northwest.
Spaced: the epitome of referential comedy
Most filmgoers of the past six years will recognize at least one of the gentlemen best known for the subversive comedies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
David Tennant and Simon Pegg will be robbing graves
David Tennant and Simon Pegg will star in John Landis' next film Burke and Hare .
David Tennant and Simon Pegg inandnbsp;Upcoming John Landis Movie
Variety is reporting that Star Trek star Chris Pine has entered talks with Paramount Pictures to play CIA analyst Jack Ryan in a redux of the movie franchise that was spun from the Tom Clancy novels.
David Tennant to star in 'Burke And Hare'
David Tennant will star opposite Simon Pegg in black comedy Burke And Hare , according to website Bloody Disgusting .
David Tennant is one half of Burke and Hare?
Breaking reports via Bloody Disgusting website indicate that director John Landis announced at this weekend's Spooky Empire convention in Orlando that departing Doctor Who star David Tennant has been cast alongside English actor Simon Pegg in Landis's upcoming film Burke and Hare .
Known on UK soil for his eponymous BBC sketch show and work with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright on Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead , Brit actor Peter Serafinowicz is making a splash Stateside this week with a role as sinister hotelier Sctanley in Couples Retreat .
Appears as a contestant on telly's Blind Date aged 20 and says that actor Jack Nicholson is her ideal man.
The ultimate guide to zombies, Part 1
There are two schools of lumbering zombie camps out there: those who delight in zombies for the gore and destruction and those who enjoy their funnier, softer, crumbling side.
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