Check out all of the great posts that we collected during Febgar Wright!

4 Your Excitement explains why everyone should be looking at Wright’s talent as a director.
[For Your Consideration: Why Edgar Wright should be on your top director’s list]

Almost Ginger reviewed the entire Cornetto Trilogy in one perfect post.
[FEBGAR WRIGHT: THE BLOOD AND ICE CREAM TRILOGY REVIEWED]

Alcohollywood reviewed and created a drinking game for The World’s End.
[FRESH POUR: The World’s End (2013) / You’re Next (2011)]

Art of the Title looks at how the title sequence for Scott Pilgrim was made.
[Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010)]

Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights talks about The Thing and Scott Pilgrim with guest Lackey from The Nightmare Gallery on the 30th episode of the Filmwhys Podcast.
[Filmwhys #30: The Thing and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World]

Man, I Love Films celebrate the director with their Eternal Characters of the Film Lover’s Mind series.
[ETERNAL CHARACTERS OF THE FILM LOVER’S MIND: CORNETTOS FOR LIFE, PART 1] [ETERNAL CHARACTERS OF THE FILM LOVER’S MIND: COPS FOR CORNETTOS, PART II] [ETERNAL CHARACTERS OF THE FILM LOVER’S MIND: FREE THE CORNETTOS! PART III]

The Droid You’re Looking For shows his crazy love for Edgar Wright with a host of fun features.
[The Soundtrack Series: Edgar Wright] [The Edgar Wright Infographics: A Follow-Up] [The Movies That Have Influenced Edgar Wright Films] [The Wright Stuff: Six Great Moments from the Wright/ Pegg/ Frost Triumvirate] [Infographic: How to Drink Like It’s the World’s End] [The World’s End Begins: The Pub Crawl]

Dell on Movies: “We laugh not because of the zombies but because of the ineptness of the regular people on the screen. However, our laughter may indeed hide a slight bit of fear, also. Perhaps we realize we may not fare any better.”

Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews: “It’s hilarious, but in a way that doesn’t take any cheap-shots. Yet, it’s still able to make you hold your gut with the most simplest forms of comedy like slapstick, like farting, and even the simple, dart-accidentally-sticks-into-someones’s-head joke.”

The Celluloid Junkie: “Its absolutely spellbinding watching Shaun’s transformation from near-30-something slacker to zombie hacker as he and Ed tool up and put together a plan to rescue Liz and Shaun’s mom.”

Cut the Crap Movie Reviews: “I’m really glad that this movie has become such a cult phenomenon and risen up from its initial obscurity when it was first out in theaters, these are the kinds of movie that deserve more credit than they usually get; a Cut The Crap movie if there ever was one.”

Film Intel: “The characters are multi-layered and authentic, but also undeniably and organically British.”

Film Intel: “That the first two thirds of ludicrously well-conceived entertainment are let down by the third is a shame but so is Wright’s decision to have the villain as a masked-man in Scream-esque black.”

Man, I Love Films: “The story of Angel and Danny shifts from sleepy town shenanigans quickly to culminate in a fevered frenzy of hilarity and carnage.Throughout, the dialogue is quick and witty, though audiences less comfortable with English accents may need a second viewing to catch all the jokes.”

Alvin’s Adventures in Pop Culture: “The chemistry between Pegg and Frost is quite natural and it’s believable that they can become friends despite their characters’ different personalities and backgrounds.”

Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews: “What’s so funny about this movie is that almost every scene features something goofy going on whether it’s a slight visual gag, recurring joke that seems to pop up everywhere, and in-jokes that will test your movie geekdom to it’s full limits. ”

Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews: “Nothing here in this movie will necessarily surprise you in terms of its sense of comedy, action, or where the story-line goes and why, but what it will surprise you with is how damn dark it can somehow get.”

A Redhead at the Movies: “the film seemed almost in conflict with itself, unsure whether to emphasize this supernatural element or stick with the human drama that had been planted in the first half of the film, with more fights between Frost and Pegg than perhaps with any of the blanks, and as a viewer, I didn’t find there to be a balance between these two elements like there had been in the other films, so much as a tug of war or back and forth that grew repetitive but also felt like it started and ended in too short a span of narrative time for it to build and grow as it should have.”

Dell on Movies: ” At times, it feels like we just swapped out zombies for ‘bots. So while it’s a fun and funny movie, even a notch above most recent comedies, it doesn’t quite achieve greatness.”

Encore’s World of Film & TV: “Amidst the aliens and ink-blood and apocalypse, these are not the strange things the only thing that prove mystifying is maybe the banal predictability of human existence. Hope springs eternal perhaps a fool’s edict when faced with the actions of humans and Wright exploits that for all its worth in the end And, that’s really depressing, honestly.”

Film Intel: “Where Shaun Of The Dead demonstrated Pegg and Wright’s aptitude for astute observational humour, with follow-up Hot Fuzz largely opting for caricature and exaggerated comedy, The World’s End opts for a third path, the bravest yet. The film openly touches on dark, even tragic notes at several points throughout, particularly when uncovering the layers within Pegg’s Gary King.”

The Warning Sign: “The mashup of movie genres means you never know what’s going to happen next, and every member of the cast has their fair share of humorous lines. It’s also cool to see Simon Pegg play such a foul, lowlife character who still somehow manages to get us on board with him.”

Two Dollar Cinema: “The World’s End is f–king brilliant. Despite taking place in a town overrun by blue-blooded aliens, and despite the fact that it’s all kinds of ridiculous, the movie is really an ode to lifelong friendship, and is grounded in a reality more familiar than 90% of the junk I see.”

Strange Kids Club: “This film is truly a love letter to the fans that have supported and followed this madcap crew throughout the years, and is a deliciously strange brew of a film that certainly takes the meaning of the phrase “go out with a bang” to heart! And what a big heart it is…”

Movie Reviews from the Dark: “Hardcore Wright fans will enjoy the steady stream of regular faces, and yes, we do get the expected failed fence jump. This one won’t stick with me for long, but I appreciated the laughs.”

Your Face: “In lesser hands this could have remained a funny take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style sci-fi thrillers, but Wright and Pegg have much more in mind than following a paint-by-numbers formula.”

Alvin’s Adventures in Pop Culture: ” Like Shaun and its fellow in the “Cornetto Trilogy”, Hot Fuzz, Wright is having a great time mixing a genre story with a heartfelt and humourous one. I think that’s the secret formula that makes these movies (along with always-wonderful performances by Pegg and Frost) so enjoyable.”

Dell on Movies: “If you’re a fan of the original Super Mario Bros. and fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Tekken, or any number of classic video games, you’re prepared to love this movie.”

Man, I Love Films: “Writer-director Edgar Wright along with writer Michael Bacall have brought Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim graphic novels to glorious, graphically-influenced life.”

Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews: “Rather than being a full-on parody of a certain genre, then becoming a film that could easily be considered apart of the same genre he is mocking, Scott Pilgrim is more of a straight-forward story that doesn’t make fun of any certain genre; instead, it combines two different types of styles that we usually see done in movies, but never to the full extent as they are done here: Video games and comic books.”

My Film Habit: “I was pleased to discover that this movie wasn’t as insufferable as I was expecting. Yeah, it’s still full of all the self-satisfied, hipster shenanigans you’d imagine—permanently childish, incurably vain, young adults, obsessed with their image. But, it actually works, because the movie as a whole isn’t as self-conscious as the characters, themselves, are.”

Your Face: “I imagine most movie-goers get dazzled by the visual look of the film and don’t take it for anything more. That’s a shame, because they miss what’s really going on in this film.”

Alvin’s Adventures in Pop Culture: “While it’s unavoidable that we will watch this movie essentially counting down the exes, it’s a great way to dress up a somewhat-cliche slacker romance that really belongs more to the previous millennium.”

Blueprint Review: “The special effects in the movie is definitely brilliant and dazzling and all of the fights were actually rather amazing and exciting to watch.”

Counting Down the Hours: “Cera’s lovable and endearing in a way only an insecure, emasculated geek can be when he pines for the blue-haired girl of his dreams. Relationships are a game to Scott; a series of levels with varied objectives and boss battles to be conquered.”

Cut the Crap Movie Reviews: “the wonderful thing about this movie that literally had me smiling and laughing for two hours straight is that it’s not exactly grounded in reality and it takes so much pleasure in breaking down that fourth wall like it was never even there. It’s like watching a live-action comic book where finishing blows are accompanied by a giant on-screen “K.O.” and the sound of someone reaching an epiphany is the same ditty Link finds when he opens a treasure chest.”

The Film Reel: “While everyone does a great job in the movie, even Michael Cera who really grates on my nerves usually, it was Kieran Culkin as Scott’s friend Wallace who stole the show for me.”

Sara: [Trope Talk: Edgar Wright’s Romance with Pop Culture – and His Love of Love]

Mette: [Start From the Bottom: Edgar Wright – A Fistful of Fingers]

Jay: [5 Favorite Things: Shaun of the Dead (2004)] // [Movie Drinking Game: Shaun of the Dead] // [Review! The World’s End by Jay Cluitt of Life vs. Film]

Nick: [Movie Drinking Game: The World’s End]

Jess + Rob: [Movie Drinking Game: Hot Fuzz]

The FTS Podcast: [FTS Podcast Episode 227: Minisode – The Cornetto Trilogy]