Shooter This story, adapted from the first of a series of books by Stephen Hunter, centers around a top military marksman named Bobby Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), who becomes caught up in an assassination attempt against the President where he is framed as the top suspect and has to go on the run. In some […]
Shot In The Dark After the original Pink Panther movie had resoundingly convinced everyone that a then unknown Peter Sellers could steal a movie from the likes of David Niven, Robert Wagner and Claudia Cardinale, the gears quickly shifted to making a sequel where Sellers would not be playing second banana to anyone and would […]
Showgirls Sometimes a movie comes along that gets thrashed by the critics like few others can imagine, wins a boatload of the dreaded Razzie Awards and then ultimately results in Hollywood essentially âpunishingâ those who were involved in making it while others involved make a point of distancing themselves away from it. But in those […]
Sid And Nancy While the punk rock movement was actually started in Detroit (of all places) in 1969 by Iggy Pop and his band, The Stooges, the cornerstone, benchmark and brand name in the genre will always be The Sex Pistols, a group of crazed anarchists from Merry Olde England who despite having had a […]
Sideways While not quite the inspirational masterpiece that was Election, this is another solid, extremely well-written character piece and buddy comedy from Alexander Payne. The film starts slow, showing Giamatti’s Miles Raymond slowly making his way to pick up his soon-to-be-married friend, and then as soon as he and Church’s Jack are off in the […]
Signs Alien invasions have become so commonly documented on film that one must really wonder (since weâve never experienced it for real) what it would be like if it happened in real life. Would it be a wild and crazy free for all where various âordinary humansâ would emerge as being âunlikely heroesâ? Or would […]
Silence Of The Lambs While many would agree that 80s horror was the absolute coolest type of that genre, as we moved into the 90s and the next big thing, along in 1991 came this almost instant classic, a film so profound that it managed to both reinvigorate and stifle the realm of horror throughout […]
Silent Night Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! After the twisted masterpiece that was the original and the mishmash of Part 2, comes this third chapter in the saga of the Chapman / Caldwell brothers, formerly orphans now grown up to be serial killers who do their dirty work at Christmastime in a Santa suit. […]
Silent Night Deadly Night 4: Initiation For the fourth entry in the franchise, the producers decided to drop the stale linear storyline of the previous films and embark on what could be called âChristmas-themedâ horror stories using the Silent Night name. Here the story involves an LA journalist (Neith Hunter, introduced memorably in a nude […]