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 […]
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 “punishing” 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 we’ve 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 “ordinary humans” would emerge as being “unlikely heroes”? Or would […]