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>

REVIEW
Nolan Offers McConaughey INTERSTELLAR Lead

Nolan Offers McConaughey INTERSTELLAR Lead

  Director Christopher Nolan has reached out to Matthew McConaughey to offer him the starring role in his next feature, a multi-layered, complicated sci-fi flick, Interstellar. In the past few years, McConaughey has attempted to reinvent himself, transitioning from a shirtless rom-com hunk into, how do I put it, an actor. With standout roles in...

EDITORIAL
Dissecting Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS

Dissecting Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS

Cosmopolis is philosophical poetry in motion told through a series of increasingly bizarre and abtruse vignettes that doesn’t wait for you to catch up, a tactic that kept me glued to the screen in anxious anticipation and careful study for it’s entire one hour and 49 minute run time. In a word, it’s brilliant. The...

REVIEW
THE WOLVERINE Loses His Powers in First Trailer

THE WOLVERINE Loses His Powers in First Trailer

      The much awaited trailer for The Wolverine starring Hugh Jackman and directed by James Mangold has finally made it’s way to the internet and the result looks measurably better than Wolverine’s last solo outing aside from the fact that the poster above makes him look like he’s taking a really aggressive shit....

REVIEW
Wachowski's Take to Netflix Original Series with SENSE8

Wachowski's Take to Netflix Original Series with SENSE8

  Netflix Original Series has really stepped up their game quickly. From the victory that was Lilyhammer to the commercial and critical success of House of Cards, the pending release of a much wanted reunion for Arrested Development and the first promising trailer for Eli Roth’s Hemlock Grove, Netflix Original Series seems all for locking...

REVIEW
Second KICK ASS 2 Trailer Focuses on Hit Girl

Second KICK ASS 2 Trailer Focuses on Hit Girl

  This international trailer for Kick Ass 2 may skimp out on the ultra-violence that characterizes the Kick Ass universe but it pays a lot more attention to Hit Girl played by (Chloe Moretz) and her struggle to acclimatize to a new life after the events of the first film.    If you missed it,...

REVIEW
First Trailer for WHITE HOUSE DOWN

First Trailer for WHITE HOUSE DOWN

  First off, no White House Down is indeed not the same movie as Olympus Has Fallen starring Gerard Butler which hit theaters this past week. It’s just another movie centered on a paramilitary group taking the White House but if those aren’t just a dime a dozen I don’t know what are. This White...

REVIEW
PAIN AND GAIN Red Band Trailer Plays Up the Comedy

PAIN AND GAIN Red Band Trailer Plays Up the Comedy

  After releasing a so-so trailer last month for general audiences, the new red band trailer for Pain and Gain hits hard and really plays up the comedic and gruesome elements of the film. Director Michael Bay of Transformers fame has been trying to make this ‘true story’ come to life for a while and...

REVIEW
$3 Theater: THE IMPOSSIBLE

$3 Theater: THE IMPOSSIBLE

Ultimately, whatever I say at this point about this film will seem reactionary but I nonetheless feel poised to defend it for what it is; a riveting narrative anchored by…

EDITORIAL
Will Smith Talks DJANGO and Makes Himself Look Like a Douche

Will Smith Talks DJANGO and Makes Himself Look Like a Douche

  Making the internet rounds today is news that box-office superstar Will Smith has finally opened up about why exactly he turned down the titular role for Quentin Tarantino‘s smash hit Django Unchained. His comments are strange and mostly ungrounded and when taken out of context, he comes off a bit like a selfish child...

REVIEW
HEMLOCK GROVE Trailer From NETLFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

HEMLOCK GROVE Trailer From NETLFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

  In the midst of next month, Netflix Original Series is primed to release their third series, Hemlock Grove, all in one go.Horror auteur Eli Roth is sitting in the executive producer’s chair on this project that is based on the novel of the same name by Brian McGreevy, who also helped develop the series....