Seabiscuit It’s that rare thing when a major motion picture comes out (especially a drama) where an animal not only becomes the central character, but outright steals the movie from an esteemed lineup of actors (including two Oscar winners). The story is a true one, based upon the amazing run of a Depression era racehorse […]
Search And Destroy For those of us who have the utmost appreciation for the most famous part of True Romance that has since come to be known as The Scene, many would be interested to know that Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken actually both appeared in another movie a couple of years later as well. […]
Searchers If there ever was an actor who managed to get more mileage out of playing the same, basic stock character from whom his real life persona was derived from, it was none other than John Wayne. Stubborn, strong willed, sullen and just an all around man’s man would be just some of the adjectives […]
Seed Of Chucky For this, the fifth (and judging by the box office returns, the last) in the venerable Chucky franchise, Don Mancini (who created the character and wrote all the films, and finally gets to direct) chooses to take a page out of the book of Scream 3 (transplanting the action to Hollywood during […]
Serenity If there was ever a science fiction TV franchise that many considered a worthy rival / successor to Star Trek (while being the polar opposite), it would certainly have to be Firefly, a short lived show that nonetheless gathered a rabid fan following during its brief run, a fact that only reinforces the concept […]
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Is a train wreck entertaining? One would guess that the answer is subjective to say the least, at least when said train wreck is a cinematic effort to replicate the success of a film that in and of itself was nearly impossible to make further movies of its type, […]
Sharky’s Machine Even to this day, Burt Reynolds remains almost enigmatic at times to many when it comes to the overall worldview that he tried to project through his film career, a career where in the 1970s he reigned as the undisputed most popular movie star in the world. Perhaps sensing the creative power and […]
Sherlock Holmes Outside of Count Dracula, perhaps no classic character has been portrayed onscreen more than Arthur Conan Doyle’s beyond brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, and certainly pop culture has ingrained a collective image of the character into our consciousness. Thus, Robert Downey Jr. should be commended for his gutsy decision to play Holmes as somewhat […]