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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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The Last Creed Fan
Fans of the band Creed are steadily going extinct. Meet Chad, the last of his kind, and the scientists who are trying to preserve his species by breeding him with a Nickelback fan.
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‘The Avengers’ gives fans the most bang for their buck
What do you get when you combine Hollywood’s most profitable superheroes in one film? You get action, effects, humor and fun. In other words, you get The Avengers. In case you’ve been living under a rock, or movies based on comic books are so not your thing, The Avengers are a team of heroes from…
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RuPaul’s Drag Race season 4 episode extravaganza!
The queen has been crowned (don’t worry, no spoilers here if you haven’t seen it) and we’re taking a look back at season 4 of RuPaul’s Drag Race with this mega post of every single episode, Untucked and even a few bonus clips. Check them out here! Newest episodes on the top.
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Tone keeps ‘The Raven’ from flying
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most well-known and important names in American literature. His work has been adapted time and time again for both television and film, most notably by The Simpsons and the legendary Roger Corman. The Raven, the new film from director James McTeigue, has an interesting take.
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Lloyd Kaufman says you should support ‘On the Count of 3’
For those who didn’t know, our friends/contributors Brett Walker and Chris Coffel are making a movie and you can support the film by making a donation at indiegogo.com/countof3. Brett and Chris are totally rad dudes and I encourage everyone who likes Trashwire to hook them up! But, as LeVar Burton would say on Reading Rainbow,…
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Great slip ups in local news history
Freudian slips, accidental cursing, just plain awkward moments in local news.
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Director Drew Goddard talks ‘Cabin in the Woods’
I recently had the opportunity to sit in on a discussion with director Drew Goddard about his new film and feature length directorial debut Cabin in the Woods. Goddard, a pleasant, down-to-earth individual, started off as a writer that was stuck in a room alone for ridiculous amounts of time and now he’s working with…
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‘Cabin in the Woods’ a new twist on horror traditions
“You don’t know the story,” that’s the tag line for The Cabin in the Woods. So I’m like, “Oh, ok first time feature director Drew Goddard, show me what you got!” So I sit down in a theater full of critics and take in this film only to find that he was right. Now, be…
