Word: copped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...where, by the end, nearly everyone has been mowed down in a tsunami of bullets. Watching Hot Fuzz at a big screening Thursday night, I laughed along with the audibly delighted crowd of film-industry folk. But I couldn't help wondering whether general audiences would find a bloodbath cop-movie parody an appropriate mechanism of escape from the recent headlines...
...first saw E.T. in 1982. In one scene, Spielberg dropped in the music from Lucas' The Empire Strikes Back. "I remember wanting to stand up in the theater and say, 'Did you just hear that?!'" says Pegg, whose new film, Hot Fuzz, provides similar moments for fans of buddy-cop movies like Bad Boys II. Other fanboys who have gone on to work in the business include Spider-Man director Sam Raimi; the two Transformers writers, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci; and David Arquette, who showed up for a screening of the horror film he wrote and directed, The Tripper...
...hotshot London policeman (co-writer Simon Pegg) is transferred to an apparently tranquil English village after showing up his superiors in this buddy-cop satire from the spoofmeisters behind Shaun of the Dead. All is not as it seems as Pegg (above right) and his lovably oafish sidekick investigate a series of bizarre deaths. The twosome pursue criminals so exuberantly and the violence is so spectacular, it's like Lethal Weapon but with brains--and scones...
...Doctor” skit. My freshman year I woke up with a big enough tummy-ache to warrant my first visit to UHS. The nurse on duty was a Danny DeVito look-a-like, whose gruff voice and flip-pad made him look more like a cop than a caregiver. He grunted and cleared his throat to speak. I waited for my Miranda Rights...
...doctors have specialties, but it shouldn’t take the trained professionalism of a psychologist to treat patients with respect. Sure there are mental health services right upstairs, but is it too much to ask for something in between the gruff cop and the Buttsavitch? Something that is not quite the whispering receptionist for the psychiatrists on the fourth floor, and not quite the callous Urgent Care...