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‘Primetime’ Is What Happens When Real Crime Becomes Entertainment
Robert Pattinson plays up To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen’s moral ambiguity in Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime.
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Zach Cregger Breaks the Video Game Curse with ‘Resident Evil’
Austin Abrams is a medical delivery driver having a terrible, no-good, very bad day in Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil adaptation.
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Buddy is a Delightfully Deranged Horror Comedy
A lovable children’s TV show character becomes increasingly unhinged in the new horror comedy Buddy from Too Many Cooks director Casper Kelly.
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‘The Paradise’ Falls Victim to the Pan-India Curse
Nani and Srikanth Odela give pan-India spectacle, but The Paradise lacks in emotional substance.
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South Korean Creature Feature ‘Hope’ Is Truly Wild
With breathtaking landscapes and a breakneck pace, Na Hong-jin’s Hope might be one of the craziest films you see this year.
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Big Screen ‘Backrooms’ An Unsettling But Uneven Debut for Kane Parsons
Kane Parsons becomes the latest (and youngest) in the YouTuber-to-horror-filmmaker pipeline with the A24 adaptation of his Backrooms liminal space series.
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VMA 2009 ad with Russell Brand and Britney Spears
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Inglourious Basterds truly Tarantino’s masterpiece
If any of you are wondering why it took me so long to get this review of Inglourious Basterds on Trashwire, the answer is that I’ve spend the last four days trying to think of how to sum up my feelings about the film without superfluous use of words like “amazing” or “awesome”. The performances…
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The Marc Pease Experience – good cast, but no Rushmore
Eight years after running off the stage screaming during a high school production of “The Wiz,” Marc Pease still finds himself living in the past. This is the plot of the new film The Marc Pease Experience, directed by Todd Louiso (Love Liza) and starring the always great, Jason Schwartzman as the title character, Marc…
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Taking Woodstock aims for the unreachable
Based on the trailer for Taking Woodstock, you might think it’s a comedy. Casting Demetri Martin as the lead might cement this assumption. The film may also seem like an epic biographical piece set to revolutionize the genre of setting films during the “Woodstock Era”. But, in reality, Taking Woodstock isn’t exactly either of those…
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Loser: Literal Version
In the tradition of the amazing “Total Eclipse of the Heart video”, here’s a literal version of Beck’s “Loser” Loser: Literal Video Version – watch more funny videos
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District 9 an alien original
It’s no surprise that District 9 kicked off the weekend with a strong 100% “fresh” rating on RottenTomatoes. The hype has been off the charts! Nearly everyone I know has been talking about it for weeks and Twitter was all a’buzz with early reviews from people who attended midnight screenings. I finally got the chance…
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Audiences will fall in love with Charlyne Yi in Paper Heart
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen,” is how the great French writer Francois de La Rochefoucauld summed up love. Dictionary.com describes love as “a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.” T.S. Elliot gave his opinion on the subject at hand by stating “love is most nearly itself…
