BREAKING NEWS: CITIZEN KANE LOSES BEST PICTURE TO HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY BREAKING NEWS: HITCHCOCK'S VERTIGO BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE, DEEMED COMMERCIAL FAILURE BREAKING NEWS: KUBRICK'S 2001 TOO CONFUSING, AUDIENCES DEMAND REFUNDS BREAKING NEWS: BRANDO REFUSES OSCAR, SENDS APACHE ACTIVIST IN HIS PLACE BREAKING NEWS: THE EXORCIST FIRST FILM NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE FEATURING PROJECTILE DEMON VOMIT BREAKING NEWS: SPIELBERG'S JAWS BREAKS ALL-TIME BOX OFFICE RECORD BREAKING NEWS: LUCAS STEALS SPIELBERG'S BOX OFFICE RECORD WITH STAR WARS BREAKING NEWS: SPIELBERG RECLAIMS RECORD FROM LUCAS WITH E.T. BREAKING NEWS: WATERWORLD BECOMES MOST EXPENSIVE FILM IN HISTORY AT $175 MILLION BREAKING NEWS: SHOWGIRLS SETS RECORD FOR MOST RAZZIES WON BY SINGLE FILM BREAKING NEWS: ACADEMY VOTERS ASKED TO ACTUALLY WATCH ALL NOMINATED FILMS BREAKING NEWS: CITIZEN KANE LOSES BEST PICTURE TO HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY BREAKING NEWS: HITCHCOCK'S VERTIGO BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE, DEEMED COMMERCIAL FAILURE BREAKING NEWS: KUBRICK'S 2001 TOO CONFUSING, AUDIENCES DEMAND REFUNDS BREAKING NEWS: BRANDO REFUSES OSCAR, SENDS APACHE ACTIVIST IN HIS PLACE BREAKING NEWS: THE EXORCIST FIRST FILM NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE FEATURING PROJECTILE DEMON VOMIT BREAKING NEWS: SPIELBERG'S JAWS BREAKS ALL-TIME BOX OFFICE RECORD BREAKING NEWS: LUCAS STEALS SPIELBERG'S BOX OFFICE RECORD WITH STAR WARS BREAKING NEWS: SPIELBERG RECLAIMS RECORD FROM LUCAS WITH E.T. BREAKING NEWS: WATERWORLD BECOMES MOST EXPENSIVE FILM IN HISTORY AT $175 MILLION BREAKING NEWS: SHOWGIRLS SETS RECORD FOR MOST RAZZIES WON BY SINGLE FILM BREAKING NEWS: ACADEMY VOTERS ASKED TO ACTUALLY WATCH ALL NOMINATED FILMS
FILM REVIEWS · FEATURES · FESTIVALS · INTERVIEWS Thursday, April 30, 2026
SILVER SCREEN RIOT
Probably hates your favorite movie. Since 2012.

AUTHOR: <SPAN>MATT OAKES</SPAN>

First Posters for X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Splices Old and New Characters

With an absolutely massive cast that takes actors from both Bryan Singer‘s original trilogy and Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class, this first poster from X-Men: Days of Future Past splices together the old and new Professor X and Magneto. With both Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy playing Professor X and Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender...

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Toronto International Film Festival Announces Lineup

Toronto International Film Festival Announces Lineup

This year’s TIFF certainly has a loaded playlist and I’m starting to consider just bucking up and attending, but we’ll see if those dreams actually come into fruition. The event will launch with their opening night film The Fifth Estate, the Wikileaks feature starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Also included in the Gala Presentations, there is the...

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Comic Con's GAME OF THRONES "In Memorium" Video Honors the Many Dead

Comic Con's GAME OF THRONES "In Memorium" Video Honors the Many Dead

  Over in San Diego, Comic Con is in full siege and has lead to a blogtastrophe. After earning a whopping 16 Emmy nominations a mere three days ago, beloved HBO series Game of Thrones has showed up to footnote the last season as well as tease what is to come in George R.R. Martin‘s...

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Learn about the Quarter Quell in THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Trailer

Learn about the Quarter Quell in THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Trailer

On the heels of yesterday’s many, many character posters, Lionsgate has released a new Comic Con trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. While the first trailer just set the context of the story, this one takes a look at the eponymous Hunger Games and what is known as the Quarter Quell. While those who...

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Incredible Extensive Trailer for THE WALKING DEAD Season 4

Incredible Extensive Trailer for THE WALKING DEAD Season 4

I’ve had a spotted past with AMC‘s adaptation of The Walking Dead but ultimately have been won over by the series. Although it deviates wildly from the comics on which it is based, it makes it all the more interesting when a seasoned reader like myself has no idea what will happen next. This four...

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Check out the Trailer for The Calvin and Hobbes Documentary DEAR MR. WATTERSON

Check out the Trailer for The Calvin and Hobbes Documentary DEAR MR. WATTERSON

  Calvin & Hobbes is a cultural cornerstone for our generation that speaks to both childlike wonder and aged wisdom all in stunningly drawn comics. We laughed at Calvin’s arcane snowmen sculptures as much as we had to rush to the dictionary to look up some of the words oh so eloquently coming from a...

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R. Scott's THE COUNSELOR Gets a More Legit Trailer

R. Scott's THE COUNSELOR Gets a More Legit Trailer

Last month, I posted a little teaser trailer for Ridley Scott’s (director of Gladiator, Alien) new film The Counselor written by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, The Road), but this is the first official domestic look at the Fox 2000 production. With a loaded cast that includes Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz,...

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A Deeper Look at Elba in Full Length MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Trailer

A Deeper Look at Elba in Full Length MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Trailer

Less than a week ago, we got our first look at Justin Chadwick’s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Where that promo featured some voice-over sentiment from Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela, this full length trailer shows some more substantial footage from the film. Rather than a weeping biopic, this trailer seems to present the film...

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More Character Posters for THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Than You Could Dream Of

More Character Posters for THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Than You Could Dream Of

With a total of no less than 11 character posters, Liongate is really amping up the marketing for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in preparation for its November 11 release. Following up on the wild success of the first installment, Catching Fire brings us back to Panem for the Quarter Quell where 11 previous winners...

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Cumberbatch is Wikileak's Asange in THE FIFTH ESTATE Trailer

Cumberbatch is Wikileak's Asange in THE FIFTH ESTATE Trailer

  The name Julian Asange didn’t mean a lot to me outside of his affiliation with Wikileaks before I saw We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks but after watching the rise and fall of that international government espionage extraordinaire, I am really compelled to see Benedict Cumberbatch filling in the shoes of Asange. Although...