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. […]
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 […]
Serpico Al Pacino’s winning streak in the early to mid 1970s has long been the stuff of legend, one smash hit after another (complete with the requisite Oscar nominations for Pacino himself) but out of all these triumphs, while it might be easy to pick the most popular (Godfather 1 and 2), picking the most […]