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>

REVIEW
"We've Unmade a Huge Mistake" – Final Poster for ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

"We've Unmade a Huge Mistake" – Final Poster for ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

  Lately, I’ve been watching Arrested Development (for about the tenth time) to get my insider bits up to snuff as I’m priming for the fated day of May 26 when AD makes it’s glorious return. The show functions so well as a house of jokes riffing on itself and constantly building towards more and...

REVIEW
Poster and Teaser Trailer for My Most Anticipated Film of the Year – GRAVITY

Poster and Teaser Trailer for My Most Anticipated Film of the Year – GRAVITY

  Alfonso Cuaron‘s Children of Men was an astonishing piece of work and the mystery and intrigue behind his new film Gravity made me pop it into the highest spot on my Most Anticipated Films of 2013 List. Starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as two solitary astronauts stuck on a damaged spacecraft, Gravity tells...

REVIEW
Trailer for TRUE BLOOD Season 6

Trailer for TRUE BLOOD Season 6

In five seasons, True Blood has seen vampires, shifters, plain clothed murders, werewolves, fairies, witches, werepanthers and, er, Maenads. Many believe the show to have jumped the proverbial shark and cling to simpler times when True Blood just involved Southern society adapting to the public knowledge that vampires are indeed real. With so much going...

REVIEW
Premiere Trailer for ENDER'S GAME

Premiere Trailer for ENDER'S GAME

Ender’s Game is one of those popular young adult books that I never around to reading as a kidbut with a big screen adaptation on the way, I’ll be able to discover what all the fuss is about. 70 years after an alien race attacked Earth and nearly destroyed everything that we know, the human...

FESTIVAL
SIFF Review: WHAT MAISIE KNEW

SIFF Review: WHAT MAISIE KNEW

‘What Maisie Knew’ Directed by Scott McGehee and David SiegelStarring Onata Aprile, Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan, Alexander Skarsgård and Joanna VanderhamDrama99 Mins R What Maisie Knew is an emotional powerhouse of a film led by an adorably funny-faced young actress functioning on a purely natural level, allowing the “performance” underneath to disappear entirely. It strikes...

EDITORIAL
Kevin Feige Isn't Afraid of Misleading You About the Future of Marvel

Kevin Feige Isn't Afraid of Misleading You About the Future of Marvel

First things first, this editorial features in-depth discussion on Iron Man 3 so if you haven’t yet seen it turn back now. Don’t say I didn’t tell you so because SPOILERS FOLLOW… Ok now that you’ve made it through, let’s talk Kevin Feige and Iron Man 3. So anyone who had seen one trailer, poster,...

REVIEW
Tom Cruise Says Yes to Another MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

Tom Cruise Says Yes to Another MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

What has an A-list movie star, a thriving franchise and this guy’s support? You guessed it: Mission Impossible 5. Although the news is hardly startling, Tom Cruise has signed on for the fifth installment in the popular franchise returning to play IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Last film, there was a lot of speculation that Jeremy...

REVIEW
Michael Caine and Jessica Chastain Board Nolan's INTERSTELLAR

Michael Caine and Jessica Chastain Board Nolan's INTERSTELLAR

  After casting both Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, block-busting guru Christopher Nolan has added two new faces to his sci-fi alternate reality flick Instellar– Michael Caine and Jessica Chastain. Caine comes as no surprise as he has been in every Nolan flick since Batman Begins and obviously has a great working relationship with Nolan....

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: IRON MAN 3

Out in Theaters: IRON MAN 3

There is a necessary amount of forgiveness involved in the Marvel Movie Universe but if you're willing to engage and let this world full of superheroes and supervillians continue to…