GET DUKED! (2019) Starring Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja, Rian Gordon, Lewis Gribben, Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickie, Georgie Glen, James Cosmo, Kevin Guthrie, Jonathan Aris, Alice Lowe, Kathryn Howden and Brian Pettifer. Screenplay by Ninian Doff. Directed by Ninian Doff. Distributed by Amazon Studios. 87 minutes. Rated R. Get Duked! may be one of the worst film titles ever, but don’t let that scare you off. This irreverent British comedy is really a pleasant surprise and one of

LOST TRANSMISSIONS (2019) Starring Simon Pegg, Juno Temple, Jamie Harris, Alexandra Daddario, Rebecca Hazlewood, Tao Okamoto, Bria Vinaite, Robert Schwartzman, Daisy Bishop, Danny Ramirez, Grant Harvey, Jacob Loeb, Nana Ghana, Mickey Schiff, Andres Faucher, Cherise Boothe, Reef Karim, Anthony Rossomando, Corey Mendell Parker, Jonathan Oyhe, Nic D’Avirro and Marius De Vries. Screenplay by Katharine O’Brien. Directed by Katharine O’Brien. Distributed by Gravitas Ventures. 105 m

Love, Antosha LOVE, ANTOSHA (2019) Featuring JJ Abrams, Sofia Boutella, John Cho, Marlon Clark, Ian Cripps, Willem Dafoe, Joe Dante, Paul David, Ryan Dean, Drake Doremus, Ben Foster, Jodie Foster, Craig Gillespie, Dave Glowacki, Bryce Dallas Howard, Nick Jones, Avy Kaufman, Martin Landau, Frank Langella, Jennifer Lawrence, Mary Lester, Mark Palansky, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Jon Poll, Zachary Quinto, Parush Rao, Zoe Saldana, Luke Shaft, Sophie Simpson, Kristen Stewart, Anya Ta

Mission: Impossible – Fallout MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT (2018) Starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Michelle Monaghan, Vanessa Kirby, Wes Bentley, Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Frederick Schmidt, Liang Yang, Kristoffer Joner, Alix Bénézech, Dean Ashton, Joey Ansah, Velibor Topic, Grahame Fox, DJ Harvey and Wolf Blitzer. Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Distributed by Paramount Pic

Ready Player One READY PLAYER ONE (2018) Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, McKenna Grace, Letitia Wright, Clare Higgins, Laurence Spellman, Perdita Weeks, Joel MacCormack, Kit Connor, Leo Heller and Antonio Mattera. Screenplay by Zak Penn & Ernest Cline. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Distributed by Warner Bros. 140 minutes. Rated PG-1

The Cloverfield Paradox THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX (2018) Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl, John Ortiz, Chris O’Dowd, Aksel Hennie, Zhang Ziyi, Elizabeth Debicki, Roger Davies, Clover Nee, Jordan Rivera, Michael Stokes III, Celeste Clark, Nathan Oliver, Suzanne Cryer, Donal Logue and the voices of Ken Olin, Simon Pegg and Greg Grunberg. Screenplay by Oren Uziel. Directed by Julius Onah. Distributed Netflix. 102 minutes. Rated PG-13. It took over a decade for

Rosamund Pike at the New York press day for “A United Kingdom” at the Peninsula Hotel – February 5, 2017. Rosamund Pike United She Stands by Jay S. Jacobs It’s Sunday afternoon at the Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York. Actress Rosamund Pike has come down with a terrible cold. She has developed a case of laryngitis, her voice a hoarse croak, while on the road for a publicity tour for her film A United Kingdom. Still, trouper that she is, she takes a cup of tea and si

Star Trek Beyond STAR TREK BEYOND (2016) Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba, Sofia Boutella, Joe Taslim, Lydia Wilson, Deep Roy, Harpreet Sandhu, Melissa Roxburgh, Anita Brown, Doug Jung, Danny Pudi, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Greg Grunberg and Jeff Bezos. Screenplay by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung. Directed by Justin Lin. Distributed by Paramount Pictures.  120 minutes.  Rated PG. “Space: the final frontier.  Th

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (2015) Starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin, Jens Hulten, Simon McBurney, Zhang Jingchu and Tom Hollander. Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Distributed by Paramount Pictures.  131 minutes.  Rated R. The Mission: Impossible series is in something of an odd position as far as franchises go.  Even though

Kill Me Three Times KILL ME THREE TIMES (2015) Starring Simon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey, Luke Hemsworth, Bryan Brown and Steve Le Marquand. Screenplay by James McFarland. Directed by Kriv Stenders. Distributed by Magnolia Pictures.  90 minutes.  Rated R. It seemed like finally, two decades hence, we’d made it past the Quentin Tarantino-wannabe films.  You know, those blood-stained movies populated by cheerfully amoral, cold-hearted, d

Star Trek Into Darkness STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (2013) Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoë Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Alice Eve, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Weller, Heather Langenkamp and Leonard Nimoy. Screenplay by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof. Directed by JJ Abrams. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 132 minutes. Rated PG-13. Hardcore Star Trek fans have been quite vocal about vilifying Star Trek into D

The World’s End THE WORLD'S END (2013) Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost. Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan, David Bradley, Reece Shearsmith, Nicholas Burns, Thomas Law, Zachary Bailess, Mark Heap, Rafe Spall and the voice of Bill Nighy. Screenplay by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. Directed by Edgar Wright. Distributed by Focus Features. 109 minutes. Rated R. British comic actors/writers Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and their director/co-w

Nick Frost and Simon Pegg at the New York press day for ‘The World’s End’ at The Waldorf Astoria, New York. Photo copyright 2013 Jay S. Jacobs Simon Pegg & Nick Frost Hoisting Some Pints at The World’s End by Jay S. Jacobs British comic actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have made a pretty impressive career creating what Frost once described to me as "love letters to the genre." Together the two have worked on several projects together (mostly with director Edgar Wright) which