Sling Blade: Director’s Cut Karl Childers, the role that made Billy Bob Thornton a cinematic superstar (and won him an Oscar for Best Screenplay) is in many ways an impressively gothic creation, and Thornton deserves credit for bringing incredible intensity to the part as well as staying in character from the first frame to the […]
Sliver After Basic Instinct had been released in 1992 and essentially defined the 90s erotic thriller, Hollywood moved rather quickly to place Sharon Stone as the star of another erotic thriller piece almost right after, this 1993 release complete with her sexually aroused face on the poster in order to lure audiences back into the […]
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, […]
Snow White And The Huntsman It’s rare that (very) poor casting can result in the female villain being more appealing than her counterpart, ruining the purpose of trying to create another franchise with an actress whom very few found appealing: Kristen Stewart, she of the flat footed heroine in the Twilight films who literally and […]
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 […]