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What every film on this list has in common is that their horrors are more than just boogeymen and spirits projected upon a silver screen, but a conduit into which deeper real-life fears are made manifest.
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Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
Korine thinks this is the future of cinema, a cinema swallowed up by home streaming devices and video gaming that deserves something better, fitter, happier than the images passively projected on silver screens.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024
Debuting in Borderlands 2, Tina hasn’t previously been one of the core four protagonists in any of the games, so she’s gotten an upgrade in that regard as one of the leads for the series’ silver screen outing.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
Glover made his silver screen debut in 1979's Escape from Alcatraz, moving on to '90s favorites like The Color Purple, Mandela, Lethal Weapon and Lonesome Dove and more current hits including Dreamgirls, Saw and The Royal Tenenbaums.
—Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
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Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
Korine thinks this is the future of cinema, a cinema swallowed up by home streaming devices and video gaming that deserves something better, fitter, happier than the images passively projected on silver screens.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024
Debuting in Borderlands 2, Tina hasn’t previously been one of the core four protagonists in any of the games, so she’s gotten an upgrade in that regard as one of the leads for the series’ silver screen outing.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
Glover made his silver screen debut in 1979's Escape from Alcatraz, moving on to '90s favorites like The Color Purple, Mandela, Lethal Weapon and Lonesome Dove and more current hits including Dreamgirls, Saw and The Royal Tenenbaums.
—Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
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Beyond that, however, the film’s pleasures are a bit harder to pin down.David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
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But the following musical number, a grand procession through the streets of Mexico City, also functions as a plea to the viewer — to buy in, to accept the film’s idiosyncratic world, one where Rita quickly gets entangled with a drug lord (Karla Sofía Gascón) seeking gender-affirming surgery.Paula Aceves, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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There, Depp premiered a movie as a director, Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, starring Al Pacino.Jack Smart, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Alvarez wrote such Marlon Wayans movies as Fifty Shades of Black, Sextuplets and Naked.Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
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San Francisco and the Bay Area has long been a hub of filmmaking, as early as the days of Charlie Chaplin.Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
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The diversity of current Japanese filmmaking is further demonstrated in the dedicated Nippon Cinema Now.Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
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The show references iconic witches like Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz (who are coincidentally coming soon to a big screen near you), not to mention Stevie Nicks.Christian Holub, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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The best way to watch any sort of network programming for free on a big screen is with a good HD antenna.BYChris Morris, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2024
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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20screen. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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