Movies from Simon Pegg

Toy Story

Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.
Simon Pegg
Actor
And, more recently, the Pixar films — Toy Story.
Movies from Simon Pegg

Young Frankenstein

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Simon Pegg
Actor
My all-time favourite films include George A Romero’s zombie classics, which have been a huge influence, and Young Frankenstein, which I first watched on 16mm film.
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The Artist

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Simon Pegg
Actor
And I was delighted to see The Artist do so well. I’m not a fan of 3D; it generally feels like an intrusion.
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21 Jump Street

In high school, Schmidt was a dork and Jenko was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners riding bicycles in the city park. Since they are young and look like high school students, they are assigned to an undercover unit to infiltrate a drug ring that is supplying high school students synthetic drugs.
Simon Pegg
Actor
The last thing I saw was 21 Jump Street, which was very funny.
Movies from Simon Pegg

The Fifth Element

In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
Simon Pegg
Actor
The director Luc Besson's film The Fifth Element, it's disconnected from typical Hollywood language, which makes it feel different.
Movies from Simon Pegg

Léon: The Professional

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.
Simon Pegg
Actor
Jean Reno plays Léon almost like a silent film star. It’s such a brilliant juxtaposition of innocence and brutality where he’s this killing machine but also like a little boy who drinks milk. He also practices good social distancing by using the sniper rifle – when you’re a really good assassin you can use a knife, but in a pandemic you’d have to use the sniper rifle
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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen Zenobia, has changed Kassim into a baboon in order to have her own son crowned as caliph. Sinbad, his crew, the Princess and the transformed Prince travel to a distant land, fighting every obstacle Zenobia places in their path, to seek the advice of a legendary wise man who can possibly tell how to end the spell.
Simon Pegg
Actor
You knew they weren’t really there with the actors but somehow it integrated well and there was a brilliant enjoyment of the artistry of it I loved as a kid. I don't think I cared, I just remember thinking “ah it's there!” and loving every moment.
Movies from Simon Pegg

Jason and the Argonauts

Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.
Simon Pegg
Actor
As a piece of cinema that Ray Harryhausen did, as the animator, it was a time when stop-motion animation was utterly acceptable to us as a proxy for fantasy – it wasn't like “oh it doesn't look very real” – it didn't matter that it wasn’t real, the fact was Harryhausen just masterfully animated these things, put them in, it looked like a special effect but you bought it and you loved it because of that.
Movies from Simon Pegg

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Simon Pegg
Actor
He waited until he was absolutely ready and made something that was one of the best films of that year. That year you had The Force Awakens, both of which starred Oscar and Domhnall, and at the other end of the spectrum you had Ex Machina which is a smaller but no less weighty sci-fi.
Movies from Simon Pegg

Ex Machina

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
Simon Pegg
Actor
This one, it’s just a beautiful, beautiful, film; it’s like a three hander: it’s Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander. It could almost be done like a play. There are some other characters, some other sort of synthetics that exist around that little threesome, but it’s mostly them; it’s so beautifully written and shot.
Books from Simon Pegg

Sharp Teeth

An ancient race of lycanthropes survives in modern L.A. and its numbers are growing as packs convert the city's downtrodden into their fold. Stuck in the middle are a local dogcatcher and the woman he loves, whose secret past haunts her as she fights a bloody one-woman battle to save their relationship. Sharp Teeth is a novel-in-verse that blends epic themes with dark humour, dogs playing cards, crystal meth labs, and acts of heartache and betrayal in Southern California.
Simon Pegg
Actor
Last holiday, I read Obama’s biography; Sharp Teeth, a book about werewolves written in verse
Books from Simon Pegg

The Hunger Games Trilogy

The stunning Hunger Games trilogy is complete!The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, are available for the first time ever in e-book. Stunning, gripping, and powerful. The trilogy is now complete!
Simon Pegg
Actor
I’ll confess to currently reading The Hunger Games, to see what the fuss is all about. I’ve enjoyed it, actually.
Books from Simon Pegg

The Wasp Factory

The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.
Simon Pegg
Actor
What is your favourite book? The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
TV Shows from Simon Pegg

Battlestar Galactica

When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
Simon Pegg
Actor
How do you relax? Watching Battlestar Galactica.
TV Shows from Simon Pegg

The Toys That Made Us

The minds behind history's most iconic toy franchises discuss the rise -- and sometimes fall -- of their billion-dollar creations.
Simon Pegg
Actor
This was all [George] Lucas of course. There’s a great documentary about it on Netflix called The Toys that Made Us. The stories of the Star Wars figures are insane: no one wanted to do it, no toy company wanted to take it on.
Music from Simon Pegg

Eloquent Scoundrels, Vol. 2

Simon Pegg
Actor
New @hiphoptenants album is really rather fly and only frickin' free to download. Get it in yo life!
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14 songs

Simon Pegg Favorite Music - 14 Songs

Actor Simon Pegg shared 14 of his all-time favorite tracks. Check out Simon Pegg's favorite music!
Simon Pegg
Actor
Actor Simon Pegg shared 14 of his all-time favorite tracks. Check out Simon Pegg's favorite music!
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I'm the Urban Spaceman - 2007 Remaster

Simon Pegg
Actor
What song do you want played at your funeral? The Urban Spaceman,” by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. As a sci-fi buff, it sounds fairly relevant. And it’s a happy song. You don’t want a dirge at those things.
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David Arnold

Simon Pegg
Actor
Name a play-list on your iPod. I’ve got two snowboarding playlists, one with classical film scores by Hans Zimmer and David Arnold.
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Hans Zimmer

Simon Pegg
Actor
Name a play-list on your iPod. I’ve got two snowboarding playlists, one with classical film scores by Hans Zimmer and David Arnold.
Music from Simon Pegg

Cast No Shadow - Remastered

Simon Pegg
Actor
What song has helped you get over a breakup? Oasis’ “Cast No Shadow.”
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Florence + The Machine

Simon Pegg
Actor
Who puts you in touch with your feminine side? Björk and Florence and the Machine.
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Björk

Simon Pegg
Actor
Who puts you in touch with your feminine side? Björk and Florence and the Machine.
Music from Simon Pegg

Love

Simon Pegg
Actor
What’s the first album you bought with your own money? The Cult’s Love. I was 15.
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I Feel for You

Simon Pegg
Actor
Is there a song that you associate with your first kiss? Around the time that was happening, I remember Chaka Khan’s “I Feel for You.”
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George A. Romero

George A. Romero
Simon Pegg
Actor
My all-time favourite films include George A Romero’s zombie classics, which have been a huge influence.