He’s the new supercop in a placid English village. But the local detectives warn Sgt. Nicholas Angel that Sandford is an arsenal waiting to explode. Detective Andy Wainwright: You do know there are ...

'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 ...

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 ...

There’s a theory about British comedians having an advantage because of their accent. Maybe that explains the popularity bordering on awe of the parodies “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz.” It helped ...

The original Hot Fuzz script had one major difference from the movie and Edgar Wright ended up cutting it from the movie, which helped differentiate the story from Shaun of the Dead. The first movie ...

(Matt Singer, of IFC News, interviews audience members in-between films at the Fuzztival, but still has to time to mug for my camera. Singer and the IFC crew have been following the ‘Hot Fuzz’ trio on ...

When Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg wrote and directed Hot Fuzz, they had a lot of influences, including a classic horror movie that has a huge connection. Hot Fuzz follows a supercop named Nicholas ...