I had the chance to go to my very first Comic Con this year with Trashwire and I had so much fun that I’m already dreaming of next year. I took over 400 pictures, but I put all the best ones in the photo galleries on trashwire.com.

Some of my faves:

Pics from my three days there are at:
http://trashwire.com/2010/07/22/sdcc1
http://trashwire.com/2010/07/23/sdcc2
http://trashwire.com/2010/07/24/sdcc3

Of course, my favorite part of it all was the two panels with Gerard Way. I took a zillion pictures and videos from both the Dark Horse panel and the Spotlight on Gerard Way panel, but these two are my favorites.

See the rest (and the videos) at Trashwire.com:
http://trashwire.com/2010/07/23/comic-con-dark-horse-gerard-way
and
http://trashwire.com/2010/07/24/comic-con-panel-spotlight-on-gerard-way

I’ve seen so many movies in the past couple weeks that I can barely keep track of all the plots anymore. Everything’s starting to run together and it’s all one big story involving a Predator adopting three little girls to try and break up his mother and her vampire boyfriend. Thankfully, I managed to separate all the plots before I wrote these two reviews.

Here’s my review of the highly-anticipated Predators. I love the original film and was very pleased that this film departed from the corny Alien vs Predator sequels.

The Predator franchise was slipping down the slope of ridiculousness and on it’s way to Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus territory when Robert Rodriguez was announced as the producer of a brand new enrtry to the Predator game. Thankfully, Rodriguez and director Nimród Antal brought back the suspense of the original and ditched the cheesy b-movie feel of more recent films starring everyone’s favorite dreadlocked alien.

Read the rest on Trashwire.com at http://trashwire.com/2010/07/09/predators-elevates-the-franchise-with-suspense

Just a few days after the Predators press screening, I went to a screening for Despicable Me. Try having a 3D animated family film and a movie about people being skinned alive by aliens floating around in your head at the same time! Despicable Me was the opposite of Predators in terms of plot, but was very similar in terms of being enjoyable.

In the tradition of Shrek, Universal’s Despicable Me is a film for kids, that’s also fun for adults. The Pixar-like 3D animation wows children and the cast list alone is enough to get adults excited. When I saw the first trailer for the film, seeing Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, and Kristen Wiig all listed together made me mark my calendar for the release date.

Read the rest on Trashwire.com at http://trashwire.com/2010/07/11/despicable-me-fun-in-3d

I’m going to have reviews for Inception, Salt and Dinner for Schmucks coming soon on trashwire this month.

Also, definitely follow @trashwire on Twitter because I’m headed to the famed San Diego Comic Con next weekend and I’ll be tweeting live about everything I see.

Because I’m so not on the grind with this blog, I forgot to post links to my latest Trashwire reviews. I had the chance to write about two very different films, one about a clingy teenager trying to get intimate with her vampire boyfriend, the other about a clingy son trying to battle his mom’s boyfriend. The Twilight: Eclipse review was also published on KDVR.com, where a bunch of Twi-hards proceeded to tell me I was an idiot because I wasn’t comparably intrigued by the epic battle of Edward vs Jacob. I’ve read the books and seen the movies and, like I say in the review, I get the phenomenon. I just like True Blood and Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse Series better.

You can read my “stupid idiot” review of Twilight: Eclipse on Trashwire…

When I want to watch sexy vampires and werewolves, I choose True Blood, but if I was ten years younger, I’d be swooning over the sparkly vampires and ab-tastic werewolves in the Twilight movies. If the first film and its sequel New Moon were burgeoning with sexual undertones masquerading as tween-friendly melodrama, then Eclipse is practically porn.

Read the rest on Trashwire.com at http://trashwire.com/2010/06/30/twilight-eclipse-is-like-true-blood-for-tweens

And check out my review of indie comedy Cyrus, starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei on Trashwire too…

Both Jonah Hill and John C. Reilly are more recently known for broader comedies like Step Brothers or Superbad, but both prove they can hold their own with quirky indie fare as they battle for the attention of Marisa Tomei in Cyrus.

Read the rest on Trashwire.com at http://trashwire.com/2010/07/02/cyrus-john-c-reilly-jonah-hill

Check ‘em out and let me know what you think in a comment or on Twitter @AlexisGentry. All comments welcome, even if you’re a hardcore Twi-hard who wants to call me a moron for not being in love with Robert Pattinson.

After getting about 3 hours of sleep the entire weekend, I finally launched the brand spankin’ new redesign on Trashwire.com.

I scoured the internet looking for the coolest WordPress themes and finally settled on a fantastic magazine theme by Gabfire. I made a few alterations, which took forever since I’m definitely not a PHP genius, and I was able to customize it to fit Trashwire. Read the rest of this entry »

While I just can’t bring myself to write a full story about American Idol, I have been microblogging about the show on the Trashwire Twitter. You can check out my live tweets on the sidebar during the show or head on over to twitter.com/trashwire to follow the posts and reply.

Here’s a few quotes from what I had to say about last night’s contestants:

Ah, Simon never disappoints. “So you’re truning your back on your band?”

Elijah Scarlett sounded like the distorted effect they put on anonymous witnesses on Dateline.

Now I’m worried we’ll find Leah Marie dead in her car outside Kara’s house.

This dude actually thought it was a good idea to go to a shop and pay money for a tattoo that says “Sexual Chacolate”

Cody Sheldon is like Sanjaya only with over-tweezed eyebrows.

I think that one dude was a frightened homeless rabbi

It might be hard to express yourself in 140 characters, but it seems roomy when describing these so-bad-they’re-good contestants. Besides, who wants to watch after the first few episodes when the only people left are those who have actual talent?