Whatever Works really works
Whatever Works is the new comedy from writer/director Woody Allen. The film takes place in New York, (did you honestly think a Woody Allen movie could take place anywhere else? Fuggetaboutit!), with Larry David...
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Über funny or über gay, Brüno gets ballsy in America
What can be said about Sasha Baron Cohen’s latest “documentary” Brüno? With bolder quips and tricks, Cohen continues what he does best in films based on characters he originated in Da Ali G Show.
Public Enemies shows what a summer blockbuster is supposed to be
The year is 1933. America is in the heart of the Great Depression. Gangsters have style. The Giants are still in New York. American automobiles are tops in the world. Bank robbers are legends....
Trashwire updates and such
It’s been a while since I last posted anything on this blog and I decided it was high time to update. Since we last spoke, I moved Trashwire to a new web host. As...
Away We Go will outlast summer blockbusters
Sam Mendes strikes gold again with his latest film, Away We Go, starring John Krasinski (TV’s The Office) and Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live) and written by Dave Eggers (upcoming script for the movie...
Trashwire sits down with Arj Barker at Comedy Works in Denver
Arj Barker is best known in the USA for his role as Dave on the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, but he has also been doing stand up for over a decade and...
Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
There is no way I can string together a sentence that can fittingly express just how much Michael Jackson meant to me or how deeply devastated I am by his death.
Bradley Cooper on ‘The Hangover’ and evolving comedy
Bradley Cooper has fittingly described his new film The Hangover as “Bachelor Party meets Memento” because the comedy takes the familiar storyline of inebriated pre-matrimony adventures and flips it around with the complexity of...
Scraping the bottom of the barrel with ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me out of Here!’
Besides the change in temperature, crappy television also signals the beginning of the summer season where writers save their wit for the fall and actually “go to there” – there being vacation. While the...
The A-List comes out for the White House Correspondents Dinner
Swine Flu be damned, nobody declined an invite to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner this year. This was Trashiwire’s fourth year of attending the pre-parties at “NerdProm”, as it was dubbed by the...
Videos from Nerdprom
Check out some of the video clips we took from the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. this past Saturday… Steven Spielberg rolled into the White House Correspondents Assoication Dinner flanked by...
Chuck Vs. The Chopping Block: How creative television isn’t given a chance
As I sit on the couch with my fiancé, sifting though bevy of reality shows and soap operas on our DVR, I wonder to myself how television has come to this. Now, I’m not...
See the Transformers 2 trailer before anyone else
Trashwire is giving our Denver readers a chance to see the trailer for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen before everyone else at a special screening of the original Transformers at 7pm on Wednesday,...
Amy Poehler carries the load in ‘Parks and Recreation’
Parks and Recreation is basically a new version of The Office. There is absolutely no difference in the style, presentation, or punchline. The only real difference is that the majority of the comedy heavy-lifting...
