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 Wednesday, June 24, 2026
SILVER SCREEN RIOT
Probably hates your favorite movie. Since 2012.

AUTHOR: <SPAN>MATT OAKES</SPAN>

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Out in Theaters: THE WOLVERINE

Out in Theaters: THE WOLVERINE

Even from a visual standpoint, The Wolverine doesn't contain the bleak imagery of gritty affairs as Ross Emery frames everything in a splendor of picturesque Japanese vistas. In these choices,…

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Newest Trailer for GRAVITY is Just One Single Shot

Newest Trailer for GRAVITY is Just One Single Shot

Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambienand Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is a bold filmmaker that challenges the borders of traditional filmmaking. He’s an artist with a vision so exact that he will invent technologies in order to get the kind of shot that he wants – take...

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Toronto International Film Festival Announces Full Line Up

Toronto International Film Festival Announces Full Line Up

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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Out in Theaters: THE CONJURING

Out in Theaters: THE CONJURING

All in all, The Conjuring is just an incredibly effective creeper that is much more likely to linger with its patrons than much of the horror fare of the recent…

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Avengers 2 Earns Nerdy Title THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

Avengers 2 Earns Nerdy Title THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

Up until now, the follow up to The Avengers has been a largely unknown quality outside the fact that writer/director Joss Whedon would return but with the title treatment, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, legions of Marvel fans are taking to speculation as to what this next installment would entail.     Culled straight from...

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...