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BEST OF BRITISH CULT MOVIES: 20 – 11

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November 4, 2011

Continuing my list of the fifty Greatest British Cult Movies, here is my selection from 20 -11:

 20. KES  Ken Loach (1969)

One the most remarkable screen performances by a child actor. David Bradley plays Billy Casper, a bright, scrawny 15-year-old kid who is frequently bullied at home and at school but finds an outlet for his frustrations by keeping a pet kestrel. Based on a novel by Barry Hines, it is a moving and brilliantly observed study of hope amid the drabness of  working class life in Northern Britain.

19. SHAUN OF THE DEAD  Edgar Wright (2004)

The definitive modern day zombie movie with a fine comedy duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.  Good jokes about struggling to tell the real zombies from the ‘normal’ brain-dead citizens with plenty of surprisingly gory splatter effects. Continue reading →

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First zombies, now cops

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August 26, 2007

Hot Fuzz

“The idea of taking that landscape that you see in such films as Saving Grace and Calendar Girls, not that there’s anything wrong with these films, films that get shown to Americans and they say, “Aw, isn’t England nice?” That’s where I grew up, it’s very scenic and picture-postcardy and the idea of starting like that and then shit blowing up appealed to me” – Edgar Wright – director & co-writer of Hot Fuzz (From interview in The Guardian).

Even in its a dubbed version, Hot Fuzz is British comedy at its best – can’t wait to see the original version on DVD. The idea of British cops in a sedate English village aping Hollywood buddy-action movies is inspired. The scene where ace cop (Nick Pegg) fights one of the villains in a model village is one of the funniest scenes I’ve seen in ages. It made me realise that through living in Italy I have completely missed out on the TV comedy ‘Spaced’ (co-written and starring Pegg) and the Hot Fuzz team’s previous zombie spoof ‘Shaun Of The Dead’. Thanks to YouTube I can now plug these gaps.

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