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Venkatesh Maha’s Drama Meets Satyadev’s Magic in ‘Rao Bahadur’
Director Venkatesh Maha’s ‘Rao Bahadur’ creatively explores themes of oppressive patriarchal legacy through magical realism and a stellar performance from Satyadev Kancharana.
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Can Everyone Just Calm Down About ‘Supergirl’?
‘Supergirl’ might be a mediocre movie, but it hardly marks the death of female superhero cinema, as some on the internet might claim.
Featured Reviews
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‘Disclosure Day’ Masterfully Made But Misses Spielberg Classic Status
Steven Spielberg brings his signature sense of wonder to Disclosure Day, along with John Williams’ score and Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography, but the sci-fi story doesn’t quite live up to the sum of its parts.
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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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Curry Barker’s ‘Obsession’ a Humorous and Harrowing Horror Story
YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Curry Barker’s Obsession is like Get Out for “nice guys”, blending funny, disturbing, and highly entertaining horror with surprisingly impactful themes.
Latest Reviews
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New Movie Review on Trashwire.com
Denver Film Festival Review: F*ck by Alexis Gentry This new documentary examines the complex history, variety of uses, and the controversy surrounding one of the world’s most infamous words. Visit trashwire.com/fuck.html to check it out.
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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.
