Scooby-Doo Anyone that grew up a kid in the 70s or 80s are probably familiar with the material and happily it can be said that this film adaptation maintains the tone and feel of the original material, staying just irreverent enough to make us feel we’ve haven’t crossed over into pretentious “epic” material. With the […]
Scream 2 The art of the horror film as examined through the self referential yet dynamically original slasher film Scream set off a sadly long lived trend of horror / slasher entries that desperately tried to copy the writing and filmmaking verve that the first film showed, and if nothing else Wes Craven can be […]
Scream 4 In the pantheon of famous horror movie villains, perhaps the most outright cheesiest (although that might be the intention) would have to be considered Ghostface from the Scream movies, not only because the actual costume is ridiculous, but also because after 4 movies, the grand total number of average, everyday, ordinary people to […]
Scream And Scream Again In the old days of horror movies before CGI, franchise villains and pretty young people trying to play victims AND give compelling performances at the same time, the meat and potatoes of horror movies was all about the ACTORS, performers who specialized in the mad and macabre whose very names on […]
Scrooged Charles Dickens’ holiday classic A Christmas Carol still remains to this day his greatest piece of work, so much so that it is credited by many for single handedly redefining the true meaning of Christmas (and Christian values) as being the catalyst for emphasizing kindness and mercy for all people. Over the years, some […]
Se7en Many a times a movie can appear to be (and be marketed as) something it’s actually not, a tactic that is known to backfire when audiences become dismayed that what they’re viewing is not the movie they’ve come to see (Clint Eastwood’s Oscar Bait Million Dollar Baby comes to mind), but sometimes it works […]
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. […]