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 Tuesday, June 23, 2026
SILVER SCREEN RIOT
Probably hates your favorite movie. Since 2012.

AUTHOR: <SPAN>MATT OAKES</SPAN>

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Weekly Review 22: THE INTOUCHABLES, BLACK SNAKE MOAN, FISH TANK

Weekly Review 22: THE INTOUCHABLES, BLACK SNAKE MOAN, FISH TANK

This week in movie watching, I caught up on a few films that I’d been wanting to see from around the world including the French dramedy The Intouchables, Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Rucci deep-south film Black Snake Moan, and a difficult British film that explored some tough issues – Fish Tank.   The Intouchables...

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Cannes Darling THE WAY, WAY BACK Gets Trailerized

Cannes Darling THE WAY, WAY BACK Gets Trailerized

Scooped up out of Cannes by Fox Searchlight for a whooping $9.75 million, The Way, Way Back is sure to be a player come Oscar season as it was written and directed by the scribing team behind 2011’s acclaimed The Descendents: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Starring Liam James (The Killing), Toni Collette (United States...

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Human-Sized Cocaine Lines in FILTH Poster and Red Band Trailer

Human-Sized Cocaine Lines in FILTH Poster and Red Band Trailer

  I just love the suggestiveness rolling out of Jon S. Baird‘s Filth, a film that’s sure to be an out-of-control romp. Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, who also wrote Trainspotting, this film follows a perverted, bigoted, alcoholic, cocaine-snorting officer of the law, played by James McAvoy. The red -band trailer is vulgar,...

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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Posters Tease Glorious Return

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Posters Tease Glorious Return

  Perhaps the wittiest television show to ever grace the silver screen, Arrested Development was cancelled by Fox in 2006 in a particularly brutal fashion. Show-runner Mitchell Hurwitz and Co. begged and pleaded. They upped the celebrity cameos. They even threw a bunch of winking jokes to save the show into the script but nothing...

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Hathaway Hops Onboard Nolan's INTERSTELLAR

Hathaway Hops Onboard Nolan's INTERSTELLAR

  After casting news last week that Matthew McConaughey has joined Christopher Nolan‘s next ambitious project, Interstellar, today brings news that Anne Hathaway has hopped aboard as well. While there are still precious few details about the film, we do know that it’ll hover in the sci-fi genre and tackle time travel, worm holes, alternative...

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Trailer for ELYSIUM From the Director of DISTRICT 9

Trailer for ELYSIUM From the Director of DISTRICT 9

  Way back in 2009, District 9 joined the elite few sci-fi films ever to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and director Neill Blomkamp aims to follow it up with an equally ambitious sci-fi/political commentary film- Elysium. Similarly to District 9, this film focuses on a society split apart by social barriers. In...

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Watch Trailer for Ron Howard's Latest – RUSH

Watch Trailer for Ron Howard's Latest – RUSH

  Rush tells the true story of the 1976 Formula-One season and the budding rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Chris Hemsworth (Thor) will fill the shoes of Hunt with Daniel Brühl (Inglorious Basterds) playing Lauda and Ron Howard behind the camera. Howard is an interesting Hollywood talent. He’s directed such Oscar-winning pictures as...

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Full Trailer for BEHIND THE CANDELABRA

Full Trailer for BEHIND THE CANDELABRA

  Behind the Candelabra is set to hit HBO Sunday, May 26 but will premiere before at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Michael Douglas stars as musical genius Liberace in this biopic that unravels his tumultuous, secret love affair with Scott Thorson (Matt Damon). Soderbergh has talked at length lately about his alleged retirement from...

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First Images from 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE

First Images from 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE

  With a release date of August 2, the following two pictures offer the first look at the followup to Zack Synder‘s 300. Titled 300: Rise of an Empire, this sequel-that-was-a-prequel is now more of a simul, as it takes place within roughly the same time frame as the original but on a different battleground...

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Out in Theaters: THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES

Out in Theaters: THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES

While the scope here offers a commanding view of the nature of reverberations, the mood is repeatedly dour and at times painstakingly hard to watch. This glum tone takes command…