Category: Reviews

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 […]

Sexy Beast It’s not really all that unprecedented for a given movie to have a bland, boring plot that’s been done many times before, but to still have it stand out almost due solely to the fact that one of the usual, basic characters in such a story actually turns out to be written and […]

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 […]

Shaun Of The Dead When George Romero set out to make the second of his legendary “Living Dead” zombie trilogy (Dawn), he succeeded in making a better film than the murky original by not only making an epic, blood and guts, gore filled horror movie, but he also achieved the not so mean feat of […]

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 […]

Shining Long considered one of the benchmarks of the horror genre, Kubrick’s sole attempt at a scary movie is visually stunning to say the least, with the opening montage of shots over the Colorado Rockies (and the effective opening music), sweeping us into a world of fear like few other flicks. The biggest discernible flaw […]

Shocker Wes Craven was that rarest of things when it comes to directors in any genre, much less horror, in that he literally found himself being able to shape and mold the conventions of the genre itself in which he worked. He also would look at the work of others and seemed to have some […]