Shaun of the Dead (2004) Review
Shaun of the Dead (2004) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A comedy that works as an actual zombie film, which almost no parody manages, because Edgar Wright shot the horror straight and let the jokes come…
Actor: Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy worked for decades in British theatre and television before Love Actually made him famous at fifty-three, playing an ageing rock star in a performance of complete self-awareness.
The physical style, the hand gestures and the slight recoil from his own sentences, is entirely distinctive and largely deliberate.
Pirates of the Caribbean buried him under motion capture as Davy Jones, and Living brought a Best Actor nomination at seventy-three for a remake of Kurosawa’s Ikiru.
