Simon Pegg

Simon Pegg

Birthday: 1970-02-14

Place of Birth: Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Biography: Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), directed by Edgar Wright. He and Wright co-wrote the films Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), known collectively as the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, all of which saw Wright directing and Pegg starring alongside Nick Frost. Pegg and Frost also wrote and starred in the sci-fi comedy film Paul (2011). Pegg is one of the few performers to have achieved what Radio Times calls the "Holy Grail of Nerd-dom", having played popular supporting characters in Doctor Who (2005), Star Trek as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (2009–2016), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). He stars as Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible film series (2006–present). He provided the voice of Buck in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Collision Course(2016), and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022).

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Mission: Impossible III
Mission: Impossible III

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt f...

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Darth Maul Returns
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Darth Maul Returns

A decade after being nearly destroyed by Obi-Wan Kenobi, Maul is resurrected and joins forces with h...

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themsel...

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Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, abov...

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Guest House Paradiso
Guest House Paradiso

Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nu...

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Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz

Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the slee...

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Spider-Plant Man
Spider-Plant Man

Spider-Plant Man is a parody of Spider-Man, made for the Comic Relief 2005 appeal and aired on BBC O...

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Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead

The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect...

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Run Fatboy Run
Run Fatboy Run

Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to r...

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty sab...

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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards...

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Big Nothing
Big Nothing

A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing sc...

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Star Trek
Star Trek

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill...

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The Good Night
The Good Night

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes ent...

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Danger! 50,000 Zombies
Danger! 50,000 Zombies

Nick Frost presents a special spoof edition of his documentary "Danger! 50,000 Volts!" purely on the...

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Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

This documentary delves into the art of make-up effects with industry legends Dick Smith, Rob Bottin...

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Paul
Paul

For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret mil...

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The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure...

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Burke & Hare
Burke & Hare

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable busin...

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Luck
Luck

Suddenly finding herself in the never-before-seen Land of Luck, the unluckiest person in the world m...

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Appointment with Dr. Terrible
Appointment with Dr. Terrible

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible" featuring Steve ...

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Derren Brown: Behind the Mischief
Derren Brown: Behind the Mischief

A documentary about Derren Brown. Discover the story of how he met his co-writer, his mother's feeli...

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Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from w...

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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks,...

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Scrat's Continental Crack-Up
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up

You may think you know the history of continental drift, but forget all that. In pursuit of his most...

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Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's It
Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's It

Recorded live at The Palace Theatre in Manchester. All his favourite characters appear - Alan Partri...

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A Fantastic Fear of Everything
A Fantastic Fear of Everything

Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victoria...

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The World's End
The World's End

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly...

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Room on the Broom
Room on the Broom

Animated film based on the wonderful children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustra...

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Tom Cruise: Impossible Missions
Tom Cruise: Impossible Missions

The stories behind the most memorable stunts from the film franchise, from the genre-defining Langle...

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The Boxtrolls
The Boxtrolls

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of...

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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an Internation...

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Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose

In 1935, Hungarian-American para-psychologist Nandor Fodor began his investigation of a strange occu...

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Spaced: Skip to the End
Spaced: Skip to the End

A feature documentary about the making of and influence of the British television series Spaced. It ...

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Doc of the Dead
Doc of the Dead

The definitive zombie culture documentary, brought to the screen by the makers of THE PEOPLE vs. GEO...

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Completing the Golden Mile: The Making of The World's End
Completing the Golden Mile: The Making of The World's End

A documentary about the making of The World's End. It is very thorough, hitting on virtually every a...

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The Fuzzball Rally
The Fuzzball Rally

Follow the guys behind Hot Fuzz as they tour America, immediately following their promotional tours ...

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Hector and the Search for Happiness
Hector and the Search for Happiness

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells h...

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Kill Me Three Times
Kill Me Three Times

While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his targ...

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Absolutely Anything
Absolutely Anything

Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving....

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Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacists
Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacists

Doofenshmirtz's latest "-inator" accidentally turns the citizens of Danville into contagious mindles...

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infi...

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Right Here, Right Now
Right Here, Right Now

On July 13, 2002, Fatboy Slim, real name Norman Cook, performed the second of his free open-air conc...

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Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz

A documentary about the making of Hot Fuzz....

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30 Years of Comic Strip
30 Years of Comic Strip

In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retro...

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Tube Tales
Tube Tales

Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy J...

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Man Up
Man Up

A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by he...

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Cuban Fury
Cuban Fury

Beneath Bruce Garrett's under-confident, overweight exterior, the passionate heart of a salsa king l...

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Comic Aid
Comic Aid

Shot live at the one off Comic Aid benefit gig at London’s Carling Apollo – which sold out in just t...

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A Night with the Stars
A Night with the Stars

For one night only, Professor Brian Cox goes unplugged in a specially recorded programme from the le...

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Star Trek Beyond
Star Trek Beyond

The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mys...

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24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a wa...

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The Disappearance of Toby Blackwood
The Disappearance of Toby Blackwood

Mid-quarantine, Wes Crowley learns that a childhood friend and popular YouTube conspiracy theorist, ...

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the...

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The Olympic Ticket Scalper
The Olympic Ticket Scalper

Sir Patrick Stewart stars as the Godfather of scalping tickets for the grandest event of them all......

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Ice Age: Collision Course
Ice Age: Collision Course

Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him o...

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Ready Player One
Ready Player One

When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for hi...

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For the Love of Spock
For the Love of Spock

The life of Mr. Spock, as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played him for almost fifty y...

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The Parole Officer
The Parole Officer

A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he m...

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50 Years of Star Trek
50 Years of Star Trek

Over the last fifty years, America has been fascinated by Star Trek since it first aired in Septembe...

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Terminal
Terminal

In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, two assassins carry out a sinister mission, a teac...

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Building Star Trek
Building Star Trek

When "Star Trek" first aired in 1966, it expanded the viewers' imaginations about what was possible ...

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Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey
Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey

An inside look at the making of the movie Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), featuri...

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Grindhouse
Grindhouse

Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who...

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Final Demand
Final Demand

Tamzin Outhwaite stars in Deborah Moggach 's dark two-part drama. On the surface Swindon-based Natal...

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Quantum Is Calling
Quantum Is Calling

Zoe Saldana enlists the help of Stephen Hawking to solve a quantum riddle in order to get Simon Pegg...

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Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Mission: Impossible - Fallout

When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it up...

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Ice Age: Continental Drift
Ice Age: Continental Drift

Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an ic...

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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for ...

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Slaughterhouse Rulez
Slaughterhouse Rulez

An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appe...

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The Reckoning
The Reckoning

In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with...

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The Cloverfield Paradox
The Cloverfield Paradox

Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and ...

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Hump
Hump

A wide-eyed camel is joined by a cunning desert fox and a mistrusting goat on his epic journey to cr...

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Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars

Phineas and Ferb become the galaxy's unlikeliest last hope when they must return the Death Star plan...

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Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, ...

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Lost Transmissions
Lost Transmissions

When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him th...

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Star Wars Spoofs
Star Wars Spoofs

The farce is strong with this one! Enjoy a hilarious collection of Star Wars movie scene spoofs and ...

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Inheritance
Inheritance

The patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter w...

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Love, Antosha
Love, Antosha

From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. T...

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The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Go behind the scenes with stars, puppeteers and creators as they bring Jim Henson's magical world of...

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Diary of the Dead
Diary of the Dead

A group of young filmmakers encounter real zombies while filming a horror movie of their own....

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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying n...

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When Shaun Met George
When Shaun Met George

The star, director and co-writers of "Shaun Of The Dead" travel to Toronto to film their cameo roles...

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The Perfect Scary Movie
The Perfect Scary Movie

A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre....

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The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild

The fearless one-eyed weasel Buck teams up with mischievous possum brothers Crash & Eddie as they he...

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Piney: The Lonesome Pine
Piney: The Lonesome Pine

A cheerful Welsh girl grows a talking pine named PINEY to be her Christmas tree, but when he's accid...

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America: The Motion Picture
America: The Motion Picture

A chainsaw-wielding George Washington teams with beer-loving bro Sam Adams to take down the Brits in...

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The Sparks Brothers
The Sparks Brothers

Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, ce...

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Robots
Robots

Robots from around the world gather to showcase their human-like abilities, with stunning successes ...

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Ice Age: Boiling Point
Ice Age: Boiling Point

A dinosaur-and-lava-filled madcap adventure that takes Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Scrat and the rest ...

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Scrat: Spaced Out
Scrat: Spaced Out

In the main events of Ice Age: Collision Course, Scrat is captured by Scratazons who take away his a...

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Angel Pavement
Angel Pavement

A tale from Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures. Corky and Loopy are two ordinary girls who happen to ...

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Angels in the Asylum
Angels in the Asylum

In early 1900s Surrey, fifty women labeled as typhoid carriers face unjust confinement at Long Grove...

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Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special

10 News First takes you behind the scenes on the making of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning...

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Alan Partridge Presents: The Cream of British Comedy
Alan Partridge Presents: The Cream of British Comedy

Alan Partridge presents an hilarious night of comedy live from the Royal Albert Hall. Boasting a ste...

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Untitled Cornetto Movie
Untitled Cornetto Movie

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The Rise of the Comic Strip
The Rise of the Comic Strip

Documentary about the beginnings and the Channel 4 years of the Comic Strip....

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Only What We Carry
Only What We Carry

Set against the windswept coast of Normandy. Described as “a meditation on love, loss, and the quiet...

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Bottom Mindless Violence
Bottom Mindless Violence

The only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past ...

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