Star Trek: The Motion Picture Star Trek is something that has turned out to be so many things to so many people in its long history as a pop culture institution that it wound up transcending it’s humble origins in so many ways into becoming more than what was obviously intended. Considered to be the […]
Stardust Many times when a big-budget movie is made, the filmmakers make a mistake of casting an unknown in the lead role who is so bad that he literally stinks up the joint and ruins the experience. This is pretty much the exception: Charlie Cox as Tristen actually manages to come across well, and pulls […]
Stepfather Before he gained a legion of fans starring as the mysterious John Locke on ABC’s Lost, Terry O’Quinn was best known for his powerhouse performance in this independent 1987 horror film (later unwisely remade), playing a serial killer with a habit of marrying into families in a neverending quest for the “perfect family”, only […]
Stir Crazy Many people today still remember the movie comedy team-ups between the two legends Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor even though the irony of those films was that Wilder was the real star and Pryor essentially played second fiddle. This 1980 release was by far the most financially successful of their films, grossing over […]
Stir Of Echoes Sometimes the most important factor when it comes to the success of a movie is merely timing. 1999 saw the release of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, a mindbending supernatural thriller with arguably the most talked about must see ending since Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (and just about as openly referenced today […]
Stone Cold The biker movie genre is one that is sparse with true undisputed classics, in many ways because Hollywood has rarely gotten it right when it comes to depicting real life motorcycle gangs with any discernible accuracy whatsoever. Certainly Brando’s The Wild One was an early benchmark, along with a slew of mostly low […]
Strange Brew If there was any true rival to the early manic comic genius days of Saturday Night Live, then it would have to be the legendary Canadian sketch comedy show SCTV which spawned many major stars in their own right such as John Candy, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy, and Catherine O’Hara. When the Canadian […]
Strange Invaders Sci fi alien invasion movies of The 1950s were elegant parables of such things as a possible nuclear holocaust and the dangers of Communism, often carried to ridiculous extents with the help of cheesy special effects and even cheesier acting, mildly entertaining most people of that time but with the exception of a […]
Straw Dogs There’s some movies that deal with fantasy and fantastical elements and then there are some movies that deal with truth, and Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 effort, one of the most controversial films of all time when it was released, is certainly reflective of that fact, that the truth, and reality can be a very […]
Streets Of Fire Has there ever been a more underrated director than Walter Hill? A guy who has made many slam bang action classics peppered with heavy doses of both macho intensity and almost comic book levels of violence and dialogue. Hill is one of those guys for whom style is everything and the script […]