Rush Hour Chris Tucker is the living epitome of the Acquired Taste, utilizing a nattering, highly annoying style of speaking in a rapid fire cadence all while sounding like he’s doing a parody of Eddie Murphy making fun of Michael Jackson. When being put under the paces of a skilled, disciplined director, Tucker could blend […]
Rush Hour 3 The third entry in this buddy-cop action franchise makes it clear that series director Brett Ratner has little intention of straying from the familiar formula, and in the context of these films, that seems perfectly alright. Chan and Tucker continue to make an enjoyable team, and the stuntwork plus sharp comic writing […]
Salvador For decades, the actions of paramilitary troops in what can be considered “uncivilized” 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 […]
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 […]
Saturday Night Fever So called “Coming Of Age Dramas” 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 […]
Saturn 3 The success of Star Wars in 1977 was obviously so monumental that it inspired scores of rip offs and wannabe “outer space sci fi” films to get made in its wake, some of which were quite good and successful (The Star Trek Movie Franchise) with even one effort (1979’s Alien) being so groundbreaking […]
Savage Streets It’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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Scarface The 80s was such an expansive decade in the field of artistic expression that it’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 […]