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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.
Featured Reviews
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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.
Latest Reviews
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Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
There is no way I can string together a sentence that can fittingly express just how much Michael Jackson meant to me or how deeply devastated I am by his death.
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New documentary paints captivating portrait of Mike Tyson
Director James Toback’s inventive visual style and complex mixture of original interviews, archival footage and photos combines with the captivating words from Mike Tyson himself to make Tyson one of the most fascinating portraits of a sports figure in years.
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Bret Michaels knocked in the head at the Tony’s
There was simply no way I could NOT post this! Also, I like how some of the videos on YouTube are titled: Bret Michaels Beheaded
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See Wil Chinchilla’s Fat Ass Do Parkour
I haven’t told every single soul that I am a tracuer, so I am coming out of the closet today to tell you I am. What is a tracuer? It is a practitioner of parkour or in Trashwire.com terms, it is the opening scene in Casino Royale and the star in the french action movie…
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Bradley Cooper on ‘The Hangover’ and evolving comedy
Bradley Cooper has fittingly described his new film The Hangover as “Bachelor Party meets Memento” because the comedy takes the familiar storyline of inebriated pre-matrimony adventures and flips it around with the complexity of Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed mystery. Instead of showing the drunken debauchery, the story focuses on the three main characters waking up to…
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Scraping the bottom of the barrel with ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me out of Here!’
Besides the change in temperature, crappy television also signals the beginning of the summer season where writers save their wit for the fall and actually “go to there” – there being vacation. While the smart people play the suits stray away and we end up with the American revival of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me…
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Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Version
Thanks to Keith for showing me this!
