The notion that comedy always comes in threes is sometimes taken as an absolute. Triples makes it safe, and the conceit is rather effective, but it can be limiting if is taken as an absolute. Comedy ...

The post Hot Fuzz Knew the Secret to the Perfect Action Satire appeared first on Consequence. Released in late April 2007, the lovingly crafted buddy-cop action-comedy deftly mixes authentic American ...

'Rollers', 'five-oh', 'pigs', 'the heat', and the 'Po-Po' are just a few of the many references used to call police. In a couple weeks, the creators of the movie Shaun of the Dead are making the name ...

Edgar Wright’s 2007 film “Hot Fuzz” is one of the greatest action comedies of all time, combining both comedy and action into one spectacular film. Photo courtesy of the Mind Reels. Edgar Wright’s ...

Much to Hollywood's dismay, the new British jab at our tacky American culture, "Hot Fuzz," is as humorous as it is clever - a feat most spoofs fail to achieve. From the makers of "Shaun of the Dead" ...

Disclaimer: This was screened in advance with a crowd of hardcore fans at WonderCon in San Francisco. We're bringing it back up again because the film is finally opening here in the US this weekend.

Hot Fuzz will, guaranteed, be the best cop picture of all time — at least, of all the ones made in England last year.

So Rogue Pictures’ Hot Fuzz rolls out April 20th in the U.S. after this British buddy cop pic has done well overseas. Brits are often way funnier than Americans. Anyway, here’s an interview with the ...

A by-the-book top cop and his bozo sidekick uncover murder and mayhem in a picturesque English village in “Hot Fuzz,” a straight-faced British spoof of everything from Yank crimers and slasher pics to ...

“Hot Fuzz” is a deadpan caricature of the over-amplified, high-throttle, cop-action movies produced by, among others, Jerry Bruckheimer. Directed by Edgar Wright, who co-wrote the script with star ...

The latest in Blighty comedy imports, co-scribes Wright and Pegg displayed a knack for parodying Bruckheimer pics with a British accent in “Hot Fuzz,” a spring arthouse fave Stateside about a topnotch ...

When British actor Simon Pegg wielded a cricket bat to fight zombies in the 2004 cult hit comedy “Shaun of the Dead” -- co-written with director Edgar Wright -- a new variant of genre-tweaking English ...