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‘Hot Fuzz’ – British mystery meets Hollywood action on Hulu

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Mystery, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/04/2022 Sean Axmaker

‘Shaun of the Dead’ creators Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg reunite with costar Nick Frost for another hilarious and loving genre send-up.

Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto in the J.J. Abrams revival of the original Enterprise crew

‘Star Trek’ – A new beginning on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Last chance, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

J.J. Abrams dares to rewrite Trek lore with an origin story that chronicles the first voyage of the Enterprise crew with a mission that sends them into a whole new chapter of Federation history.

'Star Trek Beyond,' directed by Justin Lin

Last chance: ‘Star Trek Beyond’ on Hulu

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Justin Lin takes over the series reboot and delivers a warp-speed adventure that makes good use of the youth of the cast.

Tom Cruise stars in 'Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation'

‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, caper, DVD, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, suspense, SVOD 01/16/2022 Sean Axmaker

Tom Cruise returns in the fifth film in the big-screen action series and Rebecca Ferguson makes her series debut as a British agent and possible enemy.

Steven Spielberg directs the big screen adventure adapted from the Herge graphic novels

Steven Spielberg directs ‘The Adventures of Tintin’

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, Animation, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, Kid Stuff, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 09/27/2021 Sean Axmaker

Steven Spielberg’s first foray into motion capture filmmaking turns the legendary boy journalist and globe-trotting adventurer of the early graphic novels of Herge into a big screen hero.

‘The World’s End’ – pub crawling to the end of the world on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Peacock, satire, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, VOD 09/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

The third film in the “Cornetto” trilogy created by friends and collaborators Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg is cheeky fun.

Lucy Davis, Kate Ashfield, Dylan Moran, Simon Pegg, Penelope Wilton, and Nick Frost in the film by Edgar Wright

‘Shaun of the Dead’ – the funniest zombie comedy ever on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, HBO Max, horror, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/03/2021 Sean Axmaker

The apocalyptic hysteria of the zombie film has always been pitched on the edge of comedy: a horrible black joke played on humanity by a god with a sick sense of humor. Director/co-writer Edgar Wright and co-writer/star Simon Pegg’s self-proclaimed “rom-zom-com” (romantic zombie comedy) Shaun of the Dead (2004) simply nudges it over the edge. […]

Jessica Hynes, Simon Pegg and friends in their BBC sitcom directed by Edgar Wright

‘Spaced’ – the cult British comedy on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Binge-able TV, British TV, Comedy, Cult TV, DVD, satire, Streaming TV, SVOD 11/15/2018 Sean Axmaker

Before Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, director Edgar Wright and actor/writer Simon Pegg collaborated with actress/writer Jessica Hynes on the cult BBC sitcom Spaced (1999-2000, TV-14). Pegg and Hynes play Tim and Daisy, slackers who meet at a pub and decide to pose as a couple to get a great flat. They’re not […]

Lake Bell and Simon Pegg star in a romantic comedy for the modern age.

‘Man Up’ on Netflix

!Featured, Comedy, Netflix, Streaming Movies 03/17/2016 Sean Axmaker

Man Up (2015), a romantic comedy for the modern age with a decidedly British sensibility, stars Lake Bell as Nancy, a 30-something writer and singleton in London who has given up on dating, and Simon Pegg as disappointed divorcé Jack, who is trying out internet dating for the first time. His blind date is the […]