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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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Comic Con preview night 2012
We’re back at Comic Con with new pics and videos. Check out these shots from Preview Night and stay tuned to Trashwire for more info. Follow us on Twitter (@trashwire and @AlexisGentry) for live tweets from panels and more.
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Vacation Sex
You come home from a trip to find Jake Johnson and Lizzy Caplan having sex in your bed. How do you react?
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Prometheus, so many questions…
These are just a few of the many unanswered questions you are left with after seeing ‘Prometheus’. Any you would like to add?
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Visuals and cast trump mediocre script in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’
Back in 2004, I wrote a Trashwire review of Spider-Man 2 under the pen name Dicky Cockerson At the time, Spider-Man 2 was the best Marvel movie to date, surpassing X2. Although Christopher Nolan‘s Batman trilogy is easily the best comic book adaptation in general, but when it came to Marvel movies, the Spider-Man movies…
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Too much drama, not enough abs in ‘Magic Mike’
Based on the trailers, it would be fair to assume that Magic Mike is basically Showgirls, but with shirtless studs instead of busty ladies—and there’s nothing wrong with that! Let’s face it, women are objectified on screen all the time, so it’s only fair that we’d get to ogle sexy, shirtless studs every now and…
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What happened to the ‘Star Wars’ that I used to know?
Anakin Skywalker is not happy with what Lucas has done to his character, so he’s voicing his objections Gotye style in this parody.
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Rob Salkowitz takes us to geek mecca with ‘Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture’
No matter if you have attended San Diego Comic-Con or not, the impact of this mega convention has probably affected your life. Author Rob Salkowitz explains how so much of mainstream entertainment has seen the light of day thanks to the fans in attendance at the San Diego Comic-Con.
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Tom Cruise rocks in ‘Rock of Ages’
Last year, we interviewed Matt Weaver, producer of Rock of Ages, about the big screen adaptation of his Broadway smash. Weaver’s excitement at working with stars like Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Malin Akerman and Mary J. Blige got us pumped for the film. While some of the songs are missing and some of…
