Attack the Block (review)
Take that, Spielberg, with your suburban alien invasions and your gentle parables about acceptance and stuff. Why don’t the aliens ever land in the ’hood, where no one will take their shit sitting down?
Nick Frost
great movie quotes: ‘Paul’
“Was that Klingon? You psychotic nerd.” –Paul (Seth Rogen) to Clive (Nick Frost)
watch it: “Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Star Wars”
Oh my god, these guys are such geeks.
Paul (review)
What if you and your most superbly geeky bestest friend ever met an alien? I mean a real life honest-to-Carl Sagan extry terrestrial. What if? You would plotz. You would. Like Nick Frost’s Clive does here, you would giggle like a loon and then faint, out cold from the sheer splendidness of this happenstance. I know I would.
dodging the Egypt Internet crackdown; the Oscar race is already over; is Amazon going all out with unlimited streaming?; more: leftover links
Plus: Kelsey Grammer’s marriage ruined by Fox News; Wikileaks nominated for Nobel Peace Prize; why so few women writers at Wikipedia and major magazines?; more…
trailer break: ‘Paul’
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost together again? Hoorah! The alien is a geek, too? Umm, okay. Jason Bateman as Fox Mulder? Hoorah? Anal-probing jokes? Oh, dear.
Pirate Radio (aka The Boat That Rocked) (review)
Richard Curtis appears to have nothing at all to say *about anything at all* in this mess of a misbegotten would-be comedy.
U.K. box office: ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’ invades Britain
Ahhh! It’s a giant 3D movie! 1. Monsters vs. Aliens: £4.3 million (NEW) 2. The Boat That Rocked: £1.8 million (NEW) 3. Knowing: £.97 million (2nd week; drops 61%) 4. Marley & Me: £.82 million (4th week; drops 51%) 5. The Haunting in Connecticut: £.75 million (2nd week; drops 33%) (actual numbers, not estimates) I … more…
watch it: “Red Nose Day 2009 – Get ready to Do Something Funny For Money”
It’s Red Nose Day today! And I’ve got lots of videos today in support of Comic Relief. Here, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost explain the whole deal with Red Nose Day. I saw this ad on TV while I was in London last month, and it — and seeing the noses for sale everywhere — … more…
Hot Fuzz movie review: blue steal
It’s just as visually lively, just as crammed full of clever and literate wordplay, just as screamingly hilarious as ‘Shaun of the Dead.’
