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Mando and Baby Yoda Make the Leap to the Big Screen with ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu brings our small-screen duo to cinemas with a standalone adventure that thankfully avoids empty fan service, but doesn’t quite hit the highs of the Skywalker saga.
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‘Exit 8’ Video Game Becomes Psychological Horror in New Japanese Film
‘Exit 8’ adds depth to a popular Japanese liminal space video game, creating an effective, surprisingly tense psychological horror film.
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‘The Drama’ Could Become the Most Discussed Film of the Year
Robert Pattinson and Zendaya star in The Drama, Kristoffer Borgli’s jet-black comedy about a happily engaged couple whose love is put to the test after a shocking revelation during a party game.
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‘Project Hail Mary’ Brings Much-Needed Hope to Cinema Screens
‘Project Hail Mary’ couples Ryan Gosling’s charm with a sci-fi sense of wonder for a story about the value of connection, cooperation, and compassion.
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Sam Raimi’s ‘Send Help’ Twists Office Hierarchy with Horror and Humor
With Send Help, Sam Raimi reminds us that he is a master at balancing horror and comedy, turning a simple scenario about a downtrodden employee (Rachel McAdams) stranded on an island with her horrible boss (Dylan O’Brien) into a delightfully tense, bloody, fun movie experience.
Latest Reviews
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Vintage Trashwire – ‘Office’ romance
As a big fan of the original UK version of The Office, I was understandably apprehensive when I learned that the show was coming to America. Ricky Gervais was brilliant both as a star and a writer on the show and I doubted anyone would be able to match his talent. When the first season…
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America’s Next Top Boring Reality Contestants
America’s Next Top Model premiered tonight on The CW. As a fan of reality TV, I just had to watch. I normally only watch Top Model when it airs in marathon blocks on VH1, but I’ve become so addicted to all the anorexic catfighting that I had to watch from the very beginning this time.…
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Vintage Trashwire – ‘Flavor of Love’ or flavor of vomit
Flavor of Love 2 debuted tonight on VH1 and I can safely say it was as bad as the Holocaust. First off, the girls look less like soap stars than they did last year and more like the kind of hookers that work at truck stops… in the daytime. If you put them all together…
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Pueblo, Colorado: Unlike Anything Else
Yesterday, my mom, grandma and I all piled in the car and drove down to Pueblo to visit our relatives there. My whole family on my mom’s side is from Pueblo and my mom grew up there. I’ve been many times and enjoyed it a lot as a kid. All my relatives there were colorful…
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Vintage Trashwire – The Room is the Citizen Kane of crap
At Trashwire, we love bad movies. Bad acting, bad direction, bad costumes, bad music; all these elements are important in creating a work of true cinema trash. While there are some bad movies that are just a cut above the rest, Showgirls comes to mind, there is one movie that I can safely declare as…
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American History
American History is one of Trey Parker’s earliest animated shorts. He made it at CU in Boulder. It’s really hard to find on VHS… but thanks to YouTube, we can all enjoy it now!
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The Best South Park Episodes
The 8th season of South Park came out on DVD yesterday and I thought I’d list my favorite episodes from the last 8 seasons. Season 1: 107 – PINK EYE This episode remains one of my favorites because it was the first episode I saw. A long time ago, the Boulder Theater had an entire…
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Casa Bonita
The other day, I had the pleasure of going to Casa Bonita in Denver for the first time ever. This was a monumental event in my life because, since I was a small child, I was promised school trips to Casa Bonita time after time only to have my hopes dashed at the last minute…
