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 ...

'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 BOBBIES ARE BACK IN TOWN Brits get the big guns in an action-movie spoof. When it comes to cinematic crime-solving, the English excel at tweedy murder mysteries set in tidy hamlets. Even on the ...

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" ...

Simon Pegg-fronted comedy Hot Fuzz is at the top of the UK box office after three weeks in cinemas. Simon Pegg comedy Hot Fuzz has remained at the top of the UK box office chart, taking £2.22m in its ...

BERLIN — Edgar Wright’s cop spoof “Hot Fuzz” may seem like an unlikely date movie, but Universal’s late decision to move its U.K. release date forward one day to catch the Valentine’s Day business ...

Slapping an R-rating on a film can denote a few things to the audience. For a comedy, that usually means exhaustive swearing, nudity, and maybe a gross-out slapstick violence sequence. Generally ...

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 ...