“Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” were cleverly referential, skillfully made comedies, but the final installment in Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost’s so-called Cornetto Trilogy, “The World’s End,” is in another league because it adds a rich human element to the equation. There’s plenty of the previous fun—popular allusions and action tomfoolery—but …
“Star Trek Into Darkness” is not a film that will be hailed for breaking any new cinematic ground. Even to this critic, who regretfully hasn’t seen 1982’s “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” which the movie apparently borrows heavily from, the story came across as little more than a chain of sci-fi blockbuster clichés. …
In a Deadline exclusive, Mike Fleming reports that the final installment of the so-called “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy,” the celebrated collaboration between director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz), will begin production in December. The project, titled The World’s End, is expected to be …
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