Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse earns a single merit badge for gore

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, OCT. 30, 2015 By Steve Newton These days you can barely swing a chainsaw without hitting a zombie-based movie or TV show, but Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse doesn't further the undead cause one iota. It's a horror-comedy that fails to elicit chuckle one. The prospect of laughs looks good when the … Continue reading Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse earns a single merit badge for gore

Jackass: Number Two’s Johnny Knoxville no sissy

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, SEPT. 21, 2006 By Steve Newton HOLLYWOOD--Who's the better movie star: Humphrey Bogart because he embodied macho cool in Casablanca or Johnny Knoxville because he put on a red shirt and a blindfold and offered himself to a charging bull in Jackass: Number Two? Bogie may have been more deserving of … Continue reading Jackass: Number Two’s Johnny Knoxville no sissy

Jason “Wee Man” Acuña gets naked to promote Jackass: Number Two

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, SEPT. 14, 2006 By Steve Newton HOLLYWOOD--It's a poolside reception for Jackass: Number Two at the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Various cast members--including Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, and Jason “Wee Man” Acuña--are sitting around, getting quietly sloshed. Maybe a little too quietly for Knoxville's liking. The renowned … Continue reading Jason “Wee Man” Acuña gets naked to promote Jackass: Number Two

Jackass star dies in fiery Pennsylvania car crash

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, JUNE 20, 2011 Ryan Dunn, one of the stars of MTV’s reality-TV show Jackass and its subsequent feature-length films, died early this morning when the car he was driving crashed in the woods near his home in the West Goshem Township of Pennsylvania. A passenger in Dunn’s vehicle, yet to be identified, also … Continue reading Jackass star dies in fiery Pennsylvania car crash