Hot Fuzz Movie

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 humor was born. Or at least it was born larger, following Pegg and Wright's beloved 1999 Britcom "Spaced," about pop culture-delusional slackers.

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 humor was born. Or at least it was born larger, following Pegg and Wright's beloved 1999 Britcom "Spaced," about pop culture-delusional slackers.