15 years later, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s underrated sci-fi movie deserves another shot

Brian VanHooker is a Pop Culture Writer specializing in Celebrity Interviews and In-Depth Oral Histories in the areas of Comedy, TV, Film, Cartoons, Comic Books, 80s/90s Nostalgia, Fatherhood, Retro Games and Food (especially Pizza). He was the Senior Features Writer at Cracked and a Staff Writer at MEL. He has written for Inverse, Inside Hook, Maxim, Men's Health, Fatherly, SFGate and more. He's the co-creator of the comic book/cartoon Barnum & Elwood and The Tramp, an award-winning comedy pilot starring John O’Hurley. He also hosts a TMNT interview podcast called Turtle Tracks and was once called a “Good Guy” by Mr. T. Turns out Pegg and Frost without Edgar Wright behind the camera is still pretty good Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been friends and collaborators since the mid-1990s, and it's impossible to overstate their impact as a comedic duo both in their native Britain and here in the U.S. When Simon Pegg co-created the sitcom Spaced, he wrote a part for Frost, then a struggling actor who had been waiting tables for a decade. The duo then went on to star in Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto Trilogy,” three film parodies — most famously Shaun of the Dead — that Wright directed and co-

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