April 2, 2007
Hott Fuzz and Grindhouse
This last week was one of shiny new movie goodness. The cliches will fly for both of the new features we saw but cliches are often based in truth.
Wednesday night we went to the Paramount with ‘Topher Palmer and Carolee Mitchell to see Grindhouse. Grindhouse is a double feature from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino (with trailers from Edgar Wright and Eli Roth) homage to the grindhouse cinema of the 70s and 80s. QT, Rodriguez and several stars were there. (Sidney Portier is hot and very tall.) It’s a violent gross-out thrill of zombies, psychopaths and automobile destruction. It is everything you expect, plus several of Austin’s Rollergirls have bit parts.
Sunday was a 12 hour cop movie marathon hosted by the Drafthouse and Edgar Wright that culminated in a US premiere of Hot Fuzz and a Q&A with Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Hott Fuzz does for cop movies what Shaun of the Dead did for zombie movies. It’s hilarious while being true to the genre, and it delivers as a stand-alone cop movie too.
I didn’t get any good pictures, but Carolee has these snaps at her Flickr site.
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