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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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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20screen. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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