SUMMER MOVIE SPECIAL
BY SAM DEAN @samaugustdean
THE FILMMAKER EDGAR WRIGHT was born in the English countryside, but his brain is pure Hollywood, so saturated with cinema history that he could pass as a backup to the Internet Movie Database, should some of his movies’ comically apocalyptic crises come to pass. Wright has turned that deep movie geekery into a very particular brand of smart, funny, gleefully violent and unexpectedly good-natured films, each a pitch-perfect, multi-hyphenate mashup, including the rom-com-zom(bie) Shaun of the Dead, the village-green-preservation- society-conspiracy-cop-thriller Hot Fuzz and the live-action-videogame- comic-book-adaptation-romcom Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.