Sunday 18 November 2018

Spaced (1999 Edgar Wright)

Written by its stars Jessica Hynes and Simon Pegg, all of Edgar's later films are present in budding nascency here - Sean of the Dead (Playstation episode), Hot Fuzz (paintball), Scott Pilgrim vs the World (argument to computer game) and even Baby Driver ('Tyres' episode).

This is also where Wright and editor Chris Dickens learned to collaborate so brilliantly.

With Julia Deakins, Nick Frost, Mark Heap, Caty Carmichael, Bill Bailey, James Lance, Peter Serafinowicz, Michael Smiley. Even David Walliams is in it. And John Simm. And Lee Engleby. And Joanna Scanlan. And...

It's very inventive and stylish and brilliantly written, bursting with film references, clever and very funny, not like anything you find around now...


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