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Quick Movie Catch-Up: Featured Favorites
From Mollywood to the biggest of Hollywood, from a single apartment to mythological worlds, from dialogue-driven to stylish action, here are a few movies you shouldn’t miss.
Featured Reviews
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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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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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Tenacious D’s new video ‘Low Hangin Fruit’
The joke is pretty obvious, but you can never get enough of the “D”.
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All hail Sacha Baron Cohen in ‘The Dictator’
Sacha Baron Cohen can wholly become a character like few other actors working today. As we saw in Borat and Brüno, he seemingly transforms beyond recognition into whatever heavily accented, exaggeratedly foreign, brazenly funny character he is embodying. While The Dictator is more of a traditional, narrative film that his two previous mockumentaries, Cohen still…
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What does ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ say about women?
We don’t publish enough book reviews here on Trashwire—possibly because we don’t read enough books—but E L James’ Fifty Shades of Grey is such a ginormous success that it warrants a bit of commentary. Let me start off by saying that I’m no English Lit major and I’m not a big time reader, but I…
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‘The Campaign’ official trailer.
“My hair could lift a car off a baby if it had to.” Can’t wait to see this movie. Opens August 10th!
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Burton’s ‘Dark Shadows’ disappoints
Back in the 1990s, Hollywood started taking old TV shows and making them into movies, set in present day, and making fun of just how outdated they seemed by today’s standards. The Brady Bunch Movie, The Adams Family and even Pleasantville showed us that the characters of old would have a tough time fitting in…
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The Expendables 2 trailer is out
It may be short on audible dialog, but there is sure to be plenty of action!
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Mansome opens select theaters May 18th
To groom or not to groom? That may be the question in Morgan Spurlock’s new documentary opening in select theaters May 18th.
