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Salvador

Salvador For decades, the actions of paramilitary troops in what can be considered ā€œuncivilizedā€ countries has been nothing short of barbaric, with near daily atrocities committed including executions, beheadings and rape. What might be even more disturbing though, is when any one of the major countries in the world (including obviously The United States) decides […]

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Santa Sangre

Santa Sangre At the end of the day, cinema in and of itself is simply just another form of art, a meshing of images, sounds, words and music that if put together properly, coalesce into a whole experience for the viewer that might just alter their own perception of reality if done exactly right. Few […]

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Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever So called ā€œComing Of Age Dramasā€ are the films that over the years wind up becoming the most obscure, most forgotten of their kind for more than one reason, usually because the scripts and especially the directing itself is just so pedestrian all while telling a story that usually only holds any […]

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Saturn 3

Saturn 3 The success of Star Wars in 1977 was obviously so monumental that it inspired scores of rip offs and wannabe ā€œouter space sci fiā€ films to get made in its wake, some of which were quite good and successful (The Star Trek Movie Franchise) with even one effort (1979ā€™s Alien) being so groundbreaking […]

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Savage Streets

Savage Streets Itā€™s easy to become nostalgic thinking about those days back in the 1970s and 1980s with that era of the no holds barred exploitation film, movies that were best defined as having almost no socially redeeming value whatsoever but that nonetheless were tremendously entertaining with their willingness to cross any lines of good […]

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A Scanner Darkly

A Scanner Darkly Phillip K. Dick’s parable about how drug use can be so serious you can actually start to lose your identity, has been turned into a fairly entertaining movie by Linklater. Using his slacker stoner origins from Dazed And Confused and applying it to the sci-fi genre, Linklater made the daring decision to […]

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Scanners

Scanners Perhaps best classified as the last of the b-grade horror films David Cronenberg directed before he started making masterpieces on a consistent basis, this film also started its own low-budget franchise that continued on thru four sequels as well. Telling the story of people who for unexplained reasons (until the end) possess psychic mind-reading […]

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Scarface

Scarface The 80s was such an expansive decade in the field of artistic expression that itā€™s a very real possibility that the best movies of the era were as such that we will never see their kind again. That being said, the one movie that probably defined the decade of excess was this 1983 Classic […]

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Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunt In this day and age of having just about all Hollywood comedies centered around one or two big stars, itā€™s a shame that most people donā€™t remember the time of the large scale ensemble comedies which always featured an extensive, varied cast (complete with cameos) and were constructed in such a way that […]

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Schizoid

Schizoid Bad movies are just bad movies and will always continue to be made regardless on whether the budgets are $200 million or $2 dollars. But yet when we watch what can be considered a ā€œbad movieā€, perhaps the biggest factor is whether or not the movie is bad because itā€™s actually BORING. Thus the […]