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29 Aug

Evil Season 2 Episode 7 Review: S Is for Silence

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This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 2 Episode 7 Moving from the networks to the more risk-taking Paramount+ brings more fun and experimentation to Evil season 2. Episode 7, “S Is for Silence,” takes its title seriously, but also humorously, as the series presents its first entry into the silent genre of visual storytelling. Half the team go off exploring the shadowy darkness of impressionists, the other explores silent comedies. Not a word has been spoken within the walls of the monastery of St. Thomas in 130 years, reads a sign just inside the gate. The compound and structure…
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14 May

Clarice Episode 9 Review: Silence is Purgatory

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This Clarice review contains spoilers. Clarice Episode 9 Clarice episode 9, “Silence is Purgatory,” offers a taste of temporary hell by exploring the connections of the show’s past and getting blocked from forward movement. The team is finally looking into the links between the River Murders and Alastor Pharmaceuticals. The company’s drug Reprisol is responsible for multiple cases of babies born with birth defects, and their well-connected attorney Joe Hudland (Raoul Bhaneja) keeps someone on the payroll just to kill anyone who steps forward. “Silence is Purgatory” opens in the midst of the pre-shoe-leather phase of the investigation. The ViCAP…
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24 Feb

Silence of the Lambs: Anthony Hopkins Reveals His Real World Inspiration for Hannibal Lecter

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It’s fair to say audiences were not quite ready for a character like Anthony Hopkins’ Dr. Hannibal Lecter in 1991. Obviously there had been killers and madmen in movies before; there was even another credible version of Hannibal Lecter a few years prior to that in Michael Mann’s Manhunter. But when Hopkins appears on screen in The Silence of the Lambs, he’s as still as a python lying in wait, yet also as cordial as a beloved college professor. Audiences instantly recoiled… and then leaned in. Hopkins was aware of the effect he and Jonathan Demme cultivated for the character,…
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16 Feb

Link Tank: 18 Facts About The Silence of the Lambs

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The Silence of the Lambs turned 30 over the weekend. Check out some fun facts about this gruesome movie. “Believe it or not, The Silence of the Lambs was released on Valentine’s Day in 1991. The movie was scheduled for release in the middle of February because Orion Pictures, its distributor, already had a can’t-miss hit with Dances With Wolves, and they wanted to give Kevin Costner as little competition as possible for the 1991 awards season.” Read more at Mental Floss. After an outpouring of support from her female Buffy and Angel co-stars, a few men have spoken out…
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14 Feb

The Silence of the Lambs: Brooke Smith on Surviving Buffalo Bill

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Brooke Smith has enjoyed a career spanning more than three decades across the big and small screen. She’s starred in the cult classic Series 7: The Contenders, had roles in blockbusters including Interstellar and featured prominently on Grey’s Anatomy, Ray Donovan, and Bates Motel to name but a few.  Yet to some, she will always be remembered as Catherine Martin, the daughter of Senator Ruth Martin who winds up being kidnapped by Jame Gumb, aka Buffalo Bill, in The Silence of The Lambs. Not that fans always immediately realise it. “I don’t get recognized for it that much compared with…
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12 Feb

Clarice Episode 1 Review: The Silence is Over

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This Clarice review contains spoilers. Clarice Episode 1 Clarice, episode 1, “The Silence is Over,” is a fairly literate title. It is set shortly after the events in the film The Silence of the Lambs, in the period when most agents should be reflecting on such an emotionally trying case. Especially since the agent, who was only a trainee at the time, was thrown into “Buffalo Bill’s House of Horrors” just like the women she was trying to save. Agent Clarice Starling is not comfortable with the word survivor. She swears she was only doing her job, and Rebecca Breeds…
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12 Feb

The Silence of the Lambs and Clarice’s Lifelong Battle Against the Male Gaze

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Special agent Clarice Starling is breathing heavily as she forces herself to turn the next tight corner. Between deep breaths, she knows somewhere in the back of her mind that she’s being watched. And she can assume those invisible, cold male eyes are making a judgement of her five-foot and three-inch frame: She’s in over her head. Yet she pushes past any condescending skepticism, and she perseveres  through the proverbial dark. At a glance, this could apply to the climax of The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme’s masterful psychological thriller which finishes with a cat and mouse game of…
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14 Aug

The Bay of Silence

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When Will (Claes Bang) discovers his wife Rosalind (Olga Kurylenko) and their three children have suddenly disappeared, he sets off on a frantic search across Europe. He finally locates them in a remote village in northern France, but relief turns to horror when Will discovers his baby son has mysteriously died. Will sets out to discover the truth about his wife’s disappearance and the death of his son, finding himself at odds with Rosalind’s former stepfather, Milton (Brian Cox), who wants to ‘protect’ her for his own private reasons.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 14, 2020
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11 Jul

Widow of Silence

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In a conflict ridden Kashmir, a Muslim half-widow – a woman whose husband who has disappeared – finds herself, her 11 year old daughter and ill mother-in-law in a crisis when she attempts to get her missing husband’s death certificate from the government. Now she will have to find the strength to come out from an unthinkable and absurd situation.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jul 10, 2020
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10 Sep

The Sound of Silence

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There are a symphony of almost undetectable sounds that make up a moment of silence, and Peter Lucian (Peter Sarsgaard) is determined to catalogue them all. Through his job as a New York City “house tuner,” the hyper-methodical Peter works meticulously to diagnose the discordant ambient noises—produced by everything from wind patterns to humming electrical appliances—adversely affecting his clients’ moods. When he takes on the particularly difficult case of Ellen (Rashida Jones), a lonely woman plagued by chronic exhaustion, Peter finds that the mysteries of the soul may be even greater than the mysteries of sound. A quietly moving portrait…
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07 May

The Silence of Others

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain?s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a ?pact of forgetting? around the crimes they suffered. A powerful and poetic cautionary tale about fascism, and the dangers of forgetting the past. Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: May 08, 2019
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25 Apr

The Silence

Max SchindlerMovie reviews
The story of a family struggling to survive in a world terrorized by a deadly, primeval species who have bred for decades in the pitch darkness of a vast underground cave system, hunting only with their acute hearing. As the family seeks refuge in a remote haven where they can wait out the invasion, they start to wonder what kind of world will remain when they're ready to emerge.Rated: PG-13Release Date: Apr 10, 2019
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