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Two guys hatch a plan to escape their IT support McJobs by blackmailing a snuff movie-making vicar in a quirky black comedy with a serial-killer subplot and a spiralling body count. Former Friend David Schwimmer is Charlie Wood. Down on his luck and initiated into "call centre hell" by the dodgy Gus (Simon Pegg) things soon go from bad to worse as, desperate for cash, Charlie reluctantly becomes involved in Pegg's hair-brained extortion plan.

Simon Pegg is on top form - despite the shaky Yank accent - conning the dopey Schwimmer who soon gets in over his head - "You just made me drown a man of the cloth in a vat of crap!" It's good to find Schwimmer in Cohen Brothers territory applying his easy charm to a role that sees his fish out of water the butt of the jokes. It makes for a great double act that producer Andras Hamori knew could be something special, "Pegg has that cheeky, almost surreal sense of humour that I saw in Gus' character. David is from the other side of comedy, every joke bounces off him really well. I knew that having the two of them together would be like watching great tennis."

After making an award-winning low budget debut in 2003 at the San Sebastian Horror Festival with Dead End, Andrea hit on the idea of "plotting the perfect murder" but after realising he'd never get away with it decided to write Big Nothing instead. A smorgasbord of comedy killings are packed into a gag laced running time as Andrea serves up death by lollipop, toilet bowl, septic tank, axe and a good old fashioned bullet to the head. Augmented by some quickfire Tarantino-esque one-liners - "In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed dwarf is king" - Big Nothing squares up well against recent pulp comedies like 11:14 and The Big White.

Shot on location in the UK with British Colombia providing a backdrop for the Anytown USA setting Andrea manages to keep the absurdist action flowing with a cracking little caper that climaxes with a bizarre Miami Vice-style finale sound tracked by German headbangers Rammstein that adds retro cool to the goofball shenanigans. But newcomer Alice Eve ups the ante as Gus' femme fatale ex-squeeze Josie McBroom - never trust a Machiavellian teen pageant queen who carries a hip flask. And there's sterling support from Natasha McElhone (Ronin) as Charlie's suspicious cop wife and Jon Polito (Miller's crossing) in a cool cameo as a twisted FBI guy. While one twist too many pushes the boundaries, Andrea fearlessly goes into double-cross overload, keeping the audience guessing and the laughs coming with a flick that's bound to score for a n-brainer night out.