SUNDANCE 2020: ‘COME AWAY’ Scrambles Its Fantasy Fiction, Fails to Appeal to Both Adults and Kids
Sundance 2020 review of 'Come Away' from director Brenda Chapman and starring David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie.
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SUNDANCE 2020: Well-Intentioned Slam Poetry Misfire ‘SUMMERTIME’ Has Zero Commercial Appeal
Sundance 2020 review of 'Summertime' from director Carlos López Estrada.
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Trippy ‘COLOR OUT OF SPACE’ Makes Technicolor The Bad Guy
Just as weird and trippy as you would expect from a Lovecraftian movie about a malevolent color, ‘Color Out of Space’ uses familiar genre staples and the always-game and always-cray…
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Daniel Radcliffe Has Guns Bolted to His Hands in Trailer for Action-Comedy ‘GUNS AKIMBO’
From the sick and twisted mind behind Deathgasm (the campy Evil Dead-influenced horror import from New Zealand) comes Guns Akimbo, a movie that asks: what if Harry Potter but guns? The plot revolves around a nobody played by Daniel Radcliffe who wakes to find guns surgically bolted to his hands. He has to shoot his way through...
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2019 Silver Screen Riot Awards
The wait is over, the official 2019 Silver Screen Riot Awards are here and I promise they aren't the exact same as everyone else's...
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‘UNDERWATER’ is Peak Incoherent January Hollywood Flotsam
Perfect for fans who love both bad sci-fi rip-offs and TJ Miller comedy, Underwater is often a spectacularly incoherent mess you can’t help but snicker at. 20,000 leagues below the…
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Latest Trailer for Long-Delayed ‘X-MEN: NEW MUTANTS’ Merges Superheroes and Horror
After five long years in development hell and a series of reshuffled release dates, including rumors that the finished product may be regelated to a streaming service dump or never even see the light of day, the latest look at X-Men: New Mutants promises not only an April 2, 2020 release date but an actual...
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The Top Ten Films of 2019
The big kahuna is here: the Top Ten Films of 2019, presented by Silver Screen Riot.
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Agoraphobic Amy Adams Sees Neighbor Knifed in ‘THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW’ Trailer
Initially set to release in October of this year, Joe Wright’s The Woman in the Window was pushed in the midst of the Disney-Fox merger but now we finally have a first look at the psychological thriller and it looks, as expected, like a Joe Wright-directed psychological thriller. Based on the novel of the same...
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‘STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’ Blindly Resurrects the Past To Finish The Saga
The Star Wars series as we know it comes to a close in a clunky and almost-kinda-maybe satisfying fashion, but not without its shortcomings. The force may not be strongest…