10 Great Apocalyptic Movies on Prime Video to Make You Forget COVID-19 (For a Lil Bit)

March 21, 2020 by Matt Oakes Posted in Lists Tagged A Quiet Place, Annihilation, Bellflower, Frozen, Lists, Resolution, The Big Sick, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lighthouse, The Return of the Living Dead Leave a comment

We’re in week two of the national lockdown due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and, assuming you’re like me, you’ve probably been scrolling endlessly through streaming services to find that next batch of must-watch flicks. Last week, we shared the 10 Perfect Isolation Movies to Stream on Netflix During Your Quarantine and it’s time for a little more #StreamAndQuarantine. This week, we’re shifting over to Amazon Prime and running through the list of coronavirus-appropriate movies that’ll make the catastrophe we’re in seem mild by comparison. The ten films serve as a reminder that things could always be even worse. Read More

Silver Screen Riot’s Top Ten Films Of 2018

January 2, 2019 by Matt Oakes Posted in Lists, Most Popular Tagged A Quiet Place, Annihilation, Blindspotting, Bodied, First Reformed, Hereditary, If Beale Street Could Talk, Mission Impossible: Fallout, The Favourite, Top Ten, Top Ten of 2018, Tully 1 Comment

It’s that time of year again. The time to whittle down the 147 (as of writing) movies in 2018 I’ve seen into a somewhat arbitrary and totally non-definitive Top Ten list. Each and every confounded year, us critics fold ourselves into pretzels to construct these things and year in and year out, usually end up regretting a number of the choices, particularly as time moves on. Hell, I’ll probably regret half this list once I hit the publish button. I totally reserve the right to reverse these choices in the future so don’t hold my feet to the fire if my tastes have changed in 2021. Or 2020. Or January 4, 2019. But such is life and here we are, forced to complete arbitrary rankings in the hopes for improved SEO and reader’s delight. Read More

Out in Theaters: ‘A QUIET PLACE’

April 5, 2018 by Matt Oakes Posted in Most Popular, Out in Theaters Tagged A Quiet Place, Best of 2018, Bryan Woods, Emily Blunt, Horror, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Scott Beck 4 Comments

Put your phones on silent bitches. A Quiet Place, a masterfully disquieting creature feature from The Office alum John Krasinski, simply will not stand for interruption. Taking pages from the books of Hitchcock, Argento, and Spielberg, Krasinski skillfully weaves together a sharply intelligent, emotionally involving and blisteringly suspenseful chamber-piece that layers a uniquely “silent” horror film in with a very personal treatise on the challenges of parenthood. Read More