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 […]
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 “Christmas-themed” horror stories using the Silent Night name. Here the story involves an LA journalist (Neith Hunter, introduced memorably in a nude […]
Silent Night Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker For the fifth (and last) in the venerable Xmas horror series, a few adjustments were made in order to actually make this one in some ways the most memorable, with an ending that reeks of perverse genius. Sure, there are some tried and true cornball b-movie elements […]
Silent Rage John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween and its 1981 sequel are universally recognized as having kicked off the entire so called “slasher wave” of the 1980s, as once most filmmakers realized that these style of films can be made fairly cheap (provided you have a flimsy enough premise to justify having a plot […]
Silver Bullet The early to mid 80s horror movie scene saw a sudden and large increase in the subgenre of werewolf films, spurred no doubt by John Landis’ Masterpiece An American Werewolf In London and the not so great Joe Dante flick The Howling (which nonetheless was also a huge moneymaker). At the same time […]