Hot Fuzz
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Nicholas Angel, a highly effective London police officer, is reassigned to the village of Sandford, where life is always peaceful. He finds himself partnered with Danny Butterman, an immature and daydreaming officer, and the two must join forces when a series of murders unexpectedly rocks the small town. Hot Fuzz is as much a buddy film as it is a completely over-the-top and wild satirical comedy, directed by the filmmaker behind Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver.
Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive use of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He first made independent short films before making his first feature film A Fistful of Fingers in 1995. After directing several television shows, Wright directed the sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. In 2004, Wright directed the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, starring both of them, the first film in his Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. The film was co-written with Pegg—as were the next two entries in the trilogy, the buddy cop film Hot Fuzz (2007) and the science fiction comedy The World's End (2013). In 2010, Wright co-wrote and directed the action comedy film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, an adaptation of the graphic novel series. Along with Joe Cornish and Steven Moffat, he adapted The Adventures of Tintin (2011) for Steven Spielberg. He has also written and directed the action films Baby Driver (2017) and The Running Man (2025), the documentary The Sparks Brothers (2021), and the psychological horror film Last Night in Soho (2021).
