Hasitha Fernando on the essential horror-comedies of the 21st century… With Halloween just around the corner here are some of the best horror-comedies the new century has gifted us thus far. If these movies won’t slay you with their humor, they might just scare the bejesus out of you. Happy All Hallows Eve’ folks! Check […]
October Horrors 2021 – Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Shaun of the Dead, 2004. Directed by Edgar Wright. Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton. SYNOPSIS: After being dumped by his girlfriend, slacker Shaun resolves to finally sort his life and do whatever it takes to win her back. Unluckily for Shaun, his romantic endeavour […]
Could Last Night in Soho be Edgar Wright’s leap to greatness?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the exciting prospects for Last Night in Soho, and a potential leap up the pantheon for Edgar Wright… Edgar Wright has been delivering nuggets of fried gold for over 20 years now. A rambunctious industry upstart got his start young, and had been in the game even before breaking out with […]
Shaun of the Dead with journalist and podcaster Sophie Davies | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #93
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, TV journalist and podcaster Sophie Davies chats about Edgar Wright’s rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, the journalist and podcaster Sophie Davies discusses […]
Flatulence in Film: Why cinema’s most maligned trope deserves more love
Coinciding with the UK release of Robert Eggers’ second feature film, The Lighthouse, George Nash lets rip on why cinema’s most dismissed trope, the fart gag, deserves more love… On a small, remote island, two gruff-looking figures, as if frozen in time, stand hauntingly at the door of a rickety wooden shack staring out silently […]
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright briefly considered Shaun of the Dead sequel From Dusk Till Shaun
During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright have revealed that they briefly considered a sequel to their 2004 zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, with Pegg pitching an idea entitled From Dusk Till Shaun, which would have swapped out zombies in favour of vampires. “I jokingly wrote a treatment for From Dusk […]
Why Are Audiences Gravitating Towards Genre Subversions?
George Chrysostomou on audiences gravitating towards genre subversions… This month marks the release of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the sequel to the surprise hit Kingsman: The Secret Service and it is of course just as genre bending as its predecessor. The franchise clearly plays off of some of the silliness of the Bond movies, with their own versions of […]
Why Music In Films Matters
Neil Calloway argues that soundtracks and scores can make or break films… This week, Flickering Myth’s own Oli Davis made the persuasive case that Suicide Squad‘s various cuts could be seen in the music they used; with David Ayer’s original version using different styles of music to the final cut by Trailer Park. There was […]