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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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Celebrity Fat Suit Epidemic
It seems that every show these days has at least one episode where one of their slim stars dawns a fat suit. There was Tyra and her fat “experiment” where she put on a fat suit and glasses and was horrified to learn that her bitchy diva behavior was rarely tolerated. There was Vanessa Minnillo’s…
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Denver Film Festival Reviews Up Now
Alexis just added two more reviews from the Denver Film Festival. You can see them on the main page here or you can read each one by clicking the links below. Who Loves the Sun Will Morrison and Daniel Bloom were the best of friends. They grew up together. Went to the same schools. Liked…
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Trashwire Updates (Finally!)
We know it’s been a long time, but Trashwire.com was just updated with a brand new review of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. Alexis got to see the film at the Denver Film Festival and wrote up a quick review here.
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Vintage Trashwire Review – Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
When George Lucas decided to revive the Star Wars saga, it was his goal to give fans a back-story of how exactly Anakin Skywalker transformed into Darth Vader. We knew how the story ended, but he wanted to show everyone how it began. Unfortunately for Lucas, the new Star Wars trilogy was, by most accounts,…
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Watch Kevin Federline Get Dumped Via Text Message
I know it’s wrong to take pleasure in other people’s suffering, but this is just damn hilarious. The look on his face is priceless!
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Why Kanye West Makes Me Puke
Kanye West was up for Best Video at the recent MTV Europe music awards, but he lost. Rather than letting it go, he decided to crash the acceptance speech of the group that won and claim that the whole show lost all it’s credibility because they didn’t give it to him. I’ve seen a lot…
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Some Thoughts on Stephen Hunter
Trashwire was just updated with a new item by Jason Mogavero about conservative film critic Stephen Hunter. Jason disagrees with Hunter’s claim that the masculine hero is dead, and he basically calls Hunter a turd. Check it out by clicking here or go to trashwire.com/hunter.html to read it.
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A Few More Guilty Pleasure Reality Shows
I didn’t think about it at the time that I took the survey, but My Super Sweet 16 might be the worst trashy reality show. That and MTV’s other classic, Parental Control. My Super Sweet Sixteen should be called “If Pro-life Ruled the World” becuase all these spoiled bitchy oblivious brats should have been aborted.…
