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  • Best and Worst Movies I Watched in June

    Best and Worst Movies I Watched in June

    Whatcha Watchin’ has been on a hiatus while I focus on mini-reviews but the podcast has returned with a new monthly movie wrap-up.

  • Does ‘Joker’ have too much baggage to be a good film?

    Does ‘Joker’ have too much baggage to be a good film?

    What if we viewed ‘Joker’ as just another R-rated comic book movie and not the cultural lightning rod the twitterverse and Warner Bros. marketing team want it to be?

  • Everybody needs to stop complaining about Jon Snow spoilers

    Everybody needs to stop complaining about Jon Snow spoilers

    If you’ve been on Twitter and Facebook for even a couple weeks, you know that people post about movies and TV shows, and those posts sometimes include spoilers. If you truly believe that knowing what happens on a show will destroy your entire life, perhaps it’s best for you to avoid social media (and probably…

  • Twitter Celebrates its 5th Anniversary

    On the 5th Anniversary of the first tweet on Twitter, this documentary takes a look back at the history of twitter and some of its more impressive tweets.

  • The Social Network breaks from tradition of nerds in cinema

    The Social Network breaks from tradition of nerds in cinema

    From Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles to McLovin, Hollywood loves nerds. Typically, nerds in movies are portrayed as people who have been wrongly rejected by their school society, but are really great human beings underneath their acne, glasses and knowledge of all things Star Trek. The Social Network is different in that billionaire nerd…

  • The Social Network could be career defining for Jesse Eisenberg

    The Social Network could be career defining for Jesse Eisenberg

    By the time I had joined Facebook it was already passed the stage were it was only available to college students. Now it’s even more readily available to folks than it was when I got on board. It feels as though literally everyone has a Facebook profile. It’s much more than a social networking website.…

  • Follow our live tweets from Comic Con

    Follow our live tweets from Comic Con

    Follow @trashwire on Twitter because Alexis will be tweeting live from San Diego Comic Con! Make sure to swing back by Trashwire regularly for blog posts, pics, videos, interviews and lots of other Comic Con stuff that just won’t fit into 140 characters.

  • Apple and NBC don’t understand the meaning of revolutionary

    Apple and NBC don’t understand the meaning of revolutionary

    Since when has the term revolutionary become a cliche? In 2009, NBC tried to sell us the fact that Jay Leno was going to revolutionize prime time television. By the beginning of 2010, everyone knew the only thing Leno revolutionized was how to stab your successor in the back, something Entertainment Weekly dubbed the “biggest disaster in…

  • Fame is the new American Dream

    What exactly is the “American Dream”? According to Wikipedia, the concept was first expressed by James Truslow Adams in 1931, saying citizens of every rank feel that they can achieve a “better, richer, and happier life.” It was that kind of optimistic freedom that encouraged so many of our ancestors to immigrate to the United…

  • Touching tribute to the King of Pop upstaged by Kanye’s award show terrorism

    Oh the VMAs! Where do I start? With the passing of Michael Jackson, I was worried that the days of precision choreography, visual feasts for the eyes and pop songs you didn’t mind hearing a zillion times on Top 40 radio were a thing of the past. Thankfully MTV seemed to subscribe to the “go…

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