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by Alexis Gentry · Published April 16, 2010 · Last modified November 3, 2011
Any filmmaker will tell you, it’s hard to please film critics. Sure, audiences might love your film, but nerdy film geeks like myself might hold it to a different standard. Impressing one critic is...
by Wil Chinchilla · Published March 26, 2010 · Last modified October 1, 2010
An exclusive preview of Predators, produced by Robert Rodriguez and directed by Nimród Antal, showed at the intimate Alamo Ritz on Friday March 12th to a packed house. The filmmakers, along with Fox Searchlight...
There are two points I’d like to make in this article. I’ll get to the first one right away: going to see your friend’s band is generally a bad idea. Friend’s bands are bad,...
With Thanksgiving just around the corner and everyone flocking back home to be with family, Trashwire brings you a new piece by Will Ables about bonding with his dad over The Boss, vodka on...
by Pat Sue Gentry · Published November 4, 2009 · Last modified November 16, 2009
“Hello, I’m Nasty and I’ll be your bitch today” is the kind of greeting you can expect at Bump & Grind Café in Denver. A group of women came in shortly after my party...
by Chris Coffel · Published October 30, 2009 · Last modified January 29, 2010
Let me start this review off by letting you know up front it will be pretty biased. I absolutely love the Coen Brothers. They are by far my favorite directors and can do no...
If you’ve seen any zombie movies or read Max Brooks’ “Zombie Survival Guide,” then you know the key to actually surviving a zombie threat is by having a few rules to follow, and things...
Comedy / Guest Articles / Television
by Chris Coffel · Published September 18, 2009 · Last modified October 8, 2010
Bored to Death is the new HBO series starring Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson (yes, you read that correctly, Ted Danson). The series takes place in New York and focuses on the...
by Greg Esposito · Published September 15, 2009 · Last modified January 17, 2012
For the past two weeks you couldn’t turn on your television without seeing a promo for a television show that was suppose to change everything. The show had a familiar host, a new time...
by Wil Chinchilla · Published September 9, 2009 · Last modified January 29, 2010
The film 9 was first an Academy Award winning short of the same title by director Shane Acker. The short took the non-verbal Wall-E route while the new seventy-nine-minute feature consists of an entire...
Comedy / Guest Articles / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published August 24, 2009 · Last modified January 29, 2010
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...
by Wil Chinchilla · Published August 21, 2009 · Last modified January 29, 2010
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...
by Chris Coffel · Published August 16, 2009 · Last modified January 29, 2010
“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...
Comedy / Guest Articles / Movies
by Chris Coffel · Published July 24, 2009 · Last modified September 30, 2011
This is a story about boy meets girl, but it is not a love story. This is what the narrator from the new romantic comedy, (500) Days of Summer, directed by Marc Webb and...
