Slumber Party Massacre 2 Creating the perfect horror movie villain for all seasons is a daunting task, one where both casting and writing make all the big differences. Sometimes, you get a one shot, one off horror movie that hits the right buttons with its main bad guy, but sadly, no franchise results from it. […]
Slumdog Millionaire Watching this movie, it’s pretty easy to see why the “Bollywood” style of uplifting yet shallow musicals is so popular in the country of India, since people there want to see an artificial world where everything is beautiful as opposed to the reality most of them live in. Here, director Danny Boyle tries […]
Smokey And The Bandit When Hal Needham was awarded an Honorary Oscar shortly before his death in 2013, the stated reason for his bestowment was for his innovative and groundbreaking achievements in the field of movie stuntwork, an undeniable fact for which he had singlehandedly shaped the entire spectrum of daredevil stuntmen forever. However, Needham […]
Snatch Before he sold both his artistic and creative soul for the fleeting notoriety of being married to Madonna, the fact remains that Guy Ritchie did do a couple of pretty good movies, most famously this 2000 release, a British crime caper that deftly combines two concurrent stories into an original mix. The two stories, […]
Sorority House Massacre With the booming advancement of physical media (most notably high definition blu rays), the sweepstakes concerning which older movies that (given a proper restoration) can look as good as new when viewed on modern home theater setups has skewed considerably in favor of the horror genre, most obviously that of the 80s […]
South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut The history of animated movies is a rather sentimental one, ranging from The Disney Classics to Pixar and several lower-level fare, meant to be an event for kids to spend time with their parents. However, when it comes to more mature, adult animated features, the limited spectrum is speckled […]
Southland Tales If ambition and scope were the sole criteria for what makes a great movie, then this 2006 release would undoubtedly make most critics’ lists for being amongst the top 10 best of all time. As it is, one must corral all that mighty potential into resembling something more coherent and understandable, but that […]
Spaceballs After having forever pushed the boundaries of good taste and political incorrectness for all time with his Immortal Comedy Masterpiece, Blazing Saddles, it became very clear that Mel Brooks had made a conscious decision to try to rein in his style quite a bit and almost play it safe from that point on with […]
Spartacus While many do love the cable TV series of the same name, one should definitely check out the 1960 classic that inspired it, directed by Stanley Kubrick (who reportedly had to make some concessions artistically) that nonetheless shows the Great Master (who arguably made the best films of any genre that he worked in) […]