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FILM REVIEWS · FEATURES · FESTIVALS · INTERVIEWS Tuesday, November 3, 2026
SILVER SCREEN RIOT
Probably hates your favorite movie. Since 2012.

AUTHOR: <SPAN>CHRIS BUNKER</SPAN>

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: TAMMY

Out in Theaters: TAMMY

Begin Again played with alcoholism; Tammy’s the kind of movie that’s alcoholic. The whole thing seems inebriated, like it was shot with a camera in one hand and a shot of booze in the other. Never mind that Susan Sarandon spends the film chugging whiskey and brews, or that Melissa McCarthy can’t seem to make...

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Out in Theaters: BEGIN AGAIN

Out in Theaters: BEGIN AGAIN

With music and New York serving as backdrops, Begin Again is touching, funny and lively enough to merit a taste. Imaginative and different, it challenges what you would normally expect…

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Out in Theaters: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION

Out in Theaters: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION

At the end of the night, you wonder how you ever expected anything more. History repeats itself and so does Transformers, ad nauseam. One has to wonder if Flip’s “S…

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Out in Theaters: BLENDED

Out in Theaters: BLENDED

I’ve been racking my brain trying to find out why Blended was even made, and who it was made for. Really, who is the demographic here? It boggles the mind.…

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Out in Theaters: NEIGHBORS

Out in Theaters: NEIGHBORS

I’ve got enough fraternity experiences to write two books. None of them resemble what I saw Tuesday night. Hell, my fraternity chapter was shut down in ’04 for being the…

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Out in Theaters: DRAFT DAY

Out in Theaters: DRAFT DAY

As the clock hits zero, Draft Day will likely go down as the year’s best sports movie. Though non-football fans might find it a hard pill to swallow, the elements…

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Out in Theaters: ERNEST & CÉLESTINE

Out in Theaters: ERNEST & CÉLESTINE

When your eyes water at the end, you’ll be wishing for a youth lost long ago. Why can’t everything be as candidly simple as this? Célestine asks Ernest: Et après…

INTERVIEW
Talking with Zeek Earl of PROSPECT

Talking with Zeek Earl of PROSPECT

After premiering at SXSW 2014 in the Narrative Shorts Competition, Directors Chris Caldwell and Zeek Earl have been generating a lot of buzz around this mysterious story and the possibilities for a new series. Following it’s online release on Vimeo yesterday, Prospect has garnered a lot of attention from filmmakers and fans alike and the reaction is near-unanimous: it’s definitely good enough...

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Out in Theaters: DIVERGENT

Out in Theaters: DIVERGENT

Screams snap you out of it. You’re sitting next to a pre-pubescent girl’s volleyball team from the local middle school—they shriek every time Miles Teller is on-screen. Now it's clear…