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Article by Sean Wilkinson, Ticketmaster and Ghostface Shiller The original theme has returned, Ticketholders, and the results were immediately evident! People and algorithms like the Dynamic View better than the Simple View. Also, it's Cinco de Mayo and Friday and the Sith of May, so it's only fitting that I review a movie with Hispanic leads and villains in black cloaks who deal in absolutes and use cutting weapons for personal revenge. I'm of course talking about the infamous Star Wars movie, ScreaM VI . I joke, and because I have some real Star Wars  opinions knocking around in my brain, here they are: Speaking of jokes, I think it's cool that two Joker actors ( Mark Hamil and Cameron Monaghan ) have had leading roles in Star Wars properties, and they're two of my three favorite Jokers (the late Heath Ledger being the other, with Joaquin Phoenix and Jack Nicholson being Fourth and Fifth, respectively). On the other hand, I think that making a fun, silly sh...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster The theme of me doing things in 2023 that I should have done in 2022 continues, as my 2011/2012 review of Scream 4  ended with my final thoughts being negative to mixed, saying "Perhaps I will feel differently in another ten years when  Scream 5  comes out." It was actually eleven years, but I still feel like my tendency to making jokes that sort of come true can be scary-good. I predicted The Expendables  (including most of the main cast of the trilogy) six years in advance of the actual film 's release, so I'm no stranger to making off-hand prognostications. But enough about me; let's talk Scream (2022) ! The original trilogy (and to a minor extent, Scream 4 ) focused on the family drama of Neve Campbell 's Sidney Prescott, specifically the murder of her mother at the hands of original Scream  villains Billy Loomis ( Skeet Ulrich ) and Stu Macher ( Matthew Lillard ), the vengeance of Billy's mother ( Lau...

FROM October 8, 2011: I just finished watching the original Scream Trilogy for the first time in ten years, and was far more impressed with it than I was at the time of its release (1996-2000). Ten years have also passed in front of the camera as Scream 4 welcomes a new generation of moviegoers to experience the franchise for themselves. Back for a fourth time are Sidney Prescott ( Neve Campbell ), Dewey Riley ( David Arquette ), Gale Weathers-Riley ( Courtney Cox-Arquette ), and Roger Jackson as "The Voice." As we Scream into the twenty-first century, everyone has a Roger Jackson app on their phone that allows them to sound like the killer, webcams, smartphones, and social media are everywhere, Stab (the movie-within-a-movie based on the events of the original Scream ) has grown to a seven-movie franchise, and Dewey and Gale are now married, following his proposal to her at the end of the previous movie. Sydney Prescott is now a successful self-help author and moti...

FROM October 8, 2011: It has been over ten years since I've seen the original Scream Trilogy , and before embarking upon my recent serial (ha-ha) re-watching of the series, I expected to once more complain about the degenerating quality of each successive sequel (as I remember doing at age 16, following Scream 3 ), after which I would tend toward the excuse that I have seen too many movies. However, I have matured a bit, and come to realize that watching copious amounts of slasher fare has made me appreciate the quirky (albeit blood-drenched) charm of the Scream series. For those who are behind on their Scream trivia, it is a mystery-comedy-slasher film series created by Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson , the minds behind the Nightmare on Elm Street series. The villain is a serial killer of unknown identity and extreme charisma, dubbed Ghostface or "The Voice" ( Roger L. Jackson ), who is always someone connected to the dark family history of the series' heroine...