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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma) [DVD] The film’s title derives from two sources: the northern Italian town of Salò, which from 1943 to 1945 was the seat of Mussolini’s Nazi-backed puppet regime, and the Marquis de Sade’s 1875 ... Salesman [DVD] What is it about salesmen that bring to mind failure? From Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman to David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, dramas on page, stage, and screen have ... Salt Returning to action movie form, Angelia Jolie stars as the eponymous Evenlyn Salt, a CIA agent who we first meet being tortured by North Korean baddies before being traded back to the U.S. at the ... Salvador [DVD] Salvador was Oliver Stone's first overtly political film, an initial cinematic stab by the now-renowned leftist auteur to shake up the complacency of the American public during the Reagan ... Salvatore Giuliano [DVD] Unlike Stone, Rosi is a more nuanced and rigorous political filmmaker. What they have in common, though, is that they are both interested in bearing witness to great and terrible events in their ... Sandra Bernhard: I'm Still Here ... Damn It! [DVD] There is something refreshingly offensive about Sandra Bernhard. As a sort of anti-Diva with a sneer that could melt even the most hardened stoic, Bernhard has made her career in verbal ... Sanjuro [DVD] However, although the two films were released only a year apart, Mifune’s character Sanjuro seems to have undergone a radical transformation from amoral dog to altruistic wise man. The disconnect ... Savage Grace The film is highly effective in keeping you intrigued, but it fails to burrow into the characters’ psyches and offer some kind of explanation or reason for what we witness. Of course, there is ... Saved! On paper, Saved! fits easily into the teen comedy mold, complete with conflicting cliques, difficulties with parents, a rock music soundtrack, and even a climax that takes place at the prom ... Saving Private Ryan When the boats arrive and the front gates drop open, we get the first wave of that death. In an instant of heavy machine gun fire, what was once a boat-full of soldiers is reduced to a pile of blood, ... Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas afton) [DVD] Taking place at the turn of the 20th century, Sawdust and Tinsel is set in a nearly destitute traveling circus, which immediately gives the film an air of the slightly surreal with its ... Say Anything... [Blu-Ray] When the film was first released, Crowe was already well-known as the former Rolling Stone writer who had penned Fast Times at Ridgemont (1982) and The Wild Life (1986), both ... Say Anything... [DVD] Say Anything... is an honest, good-natured film about first love that holds hard reality and eternal optimism in a gentle balancing act. In his directorial debut, Cameron Crowe (Almost ... Say It Isn't So! Say It Isn't So! is the latest romantic comedy masquerading as a gross-outmarathon, and even though it wasn't written or directed by the Farrelly Brothers, it wasproduced by them and directed ... Séance on a Wet Afternoon [DVD] Bryan Forbes’ Séance on a Wet Afternoon is about a mentally unhinged woman who is so convinced she is a medium that she feels the need to construct an elaborate scheme to prove it to ... Sólo con tu pareja [DVD] Tomás makes a big mistake, however, when he fails to satisfy Silvia (Dobrina Liubomirova), a nurse who works at the office of his doctor and neighbor, Mateo (Luis de Icaza). She retaliates by ... Scandal [DVD] In 1963, the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was rocked with a sex scandal involving Macmillan's Secretary of War, John Profumo, and a young woman named Christine ... Scary Movie There are two main questions that might be raised by the horror parody "Scary Movie": First, why did it take this long for someone to spoof the slasher genre? (After all, '70s disaster films had been ... Scary Movie 2 It seems like only a year ago that I was writing a review of the Wayans Brothers' horror spoof Scary Movie. Oh, wait, it was a year ago. ... Scenes From a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) [DVD] Thus begins Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap), which was originally shot as a five-part miniseries for Swedish television and was later edited down ... Schindler's List In chronicling this extraordinary life, Steven Spielberg, a Jew himself, created one of the most devastatingly emotional films ever made. Filmed in gritty black and white on location in Krakow, ... Schizopolis [DVD] Steven Soderbergh’s Schizopolis is as fragmented and confounding as its title implies. It was made as a low-budget personal bomb lobbed simultaneously into the worlds of independent art ... School for Scoundrels Roger finds potential salvation in the secretive titular course run by Thornton's Dr. P. He is joined by a classroom full of sad-sack losers played by familiar supporting actors like Saturday Night ... School of Rock [DVD] > “One great rock show can change the world,â€� declares Dewey ... Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé [DVD] Prior to the publication and subsequent translation into English of the anthology Science is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé (2000) and a 2001 retrospective of his work at the Museum of ... Scooby-Doo College is a time for learning. Of course, some of the most interesting learning that takes place during your college days has little to do with what you get out of the economics classroom or the ... Scott Pilgrim vs. the World The story concerns the titular Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera, unsure and awkward as ever), a meek, 22-year-old nobody living in Toronto whose biggest accomplishment is playing bass in a punk rock band ... Scream Now, almost twenty years after it was all started, director Wes Craven (who was greatly responsible for the splatter genre with his "Nightmare on Elm Street" series) reves it up again with "Scream," ... Scream 2 The only movies more ripe for ridicule and satire than mindless slasher films are the endless sequels to mindless slasher films. Considering how deftly unoriginal slasher pics are in the first ... Scream 3 [DVD] All throughout "Scream 3," there is the constant emphasis that this is the final installment of a trilogy, as if the filmmakers are scared to death that it will be mistaken for simply another ... Seabiscuit In Seabiscuit, writer/director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) doesn’t want to just tell the story of one of the most famous racehorses of all time. Rather, he wants to turn that racehorse ... Searching for Bobby Fischer [DVD] Bobby Fischer was a chess genius. He was so brilliant at chess that he was an international grandmaster by the time he was 15, and he left high school in order to become a professional player. ... Season of the Witch [DVD] After that film tanked at the box office, Romero returned to the horror genre (at least tangentially) with Season of the Witch, which was shot under the working title Jack’s Wife, ... Seconds [DVD] Seconds is a disturbing, paranoia-era sci-fi thriller that is partly a neo-Faustian cautionary tale about the dangers of wanting too much updated to an era of homeland political ... Secret Window > (Major spoiler warning: For those who haven’t seen ... Semi-Pro Had Semi-Pro offered something more than Ferrell’s well-worn schtick, it would have probably been about as funny as it thinks it is. Unfortunately, the only other things it has to offer ... Serenity For those who aren’t aware, the world of Serenity is the distant future in which Earth has become largely uninhabitable and humanity has spread out into the universe, colonizing planets ... Serpico [DVD] In Sidney Lumet’s Serpico, Al Pacino solidified his A-list status playing the titular character, a real-life New York City cop named Frank Serpico who, for 12 years, refused the rampant ... Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) [DVD] Kurosawa had already directed or co-directed 14 films when he made Seven Samurai in 1954, including 1950’s Rashomon, which the great French critic André Bazin wrote “can truly be ... Seven [DVD] David Fincher's Seven is a imminently disturbing film, an unsettling serial killer police procedural that, for two hours, gets under your skin viscerally until it delivers the final blow with ... sex, lies, and videotape [Blu-Ray] When the film took the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival several months later (the jury was headed by Wim Wenders), it marked the beginning of what would become a veritable flood of new American ... Sexy Beast Sexy Beast is an oddly intriguing British import that straddles the line between the traditional crime thriller and the black comedy. It is like Jules Dassin's Rififi (1955) filtered ... Shadow of a Doubt [DVD] Alfred Hitchcock made Shadow of a Doubt during one of the most difficult periods of his life. At the time, his mother was slowly dying in England, and Hitch was trapped in the United States ... Shadow of the Vampire [DVD] Shadow of the Vampire is a darkly humorous reimagination of what went on behind the lights and cameras during the filming of F.W. Murnau's legendary silent horror film, Nosferatu, ... Shadows [DVD] Cassavetes’ directorial debut was Shadows, shot on 16mm black and white over a two-year period. The film was largely improvisational in nature and was not initially intended as a ... Shaft [DVD] Isaac Hayes' funky theme song is still exactly the same, but that is about the only thing John Singleton's "Shaft" has in common with the original 1971 blaxploitation classic directed by Gordon ... Shakespeare in Love [DVD] The woman in question for whom Shakespeare's torches "doth burn bright" is Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), a wealthy, free-spirited heiress who wants to act in a time when women were not allowed ... Shallow Hal Pablo Picasso once stated that beauty was "a word without sense." That may be true, but much like what Justice Potter Stewart famously said about pornography, beauty is something that you may not be ... Shame of the Jungle (Tarzoon, la honte de la jungle) The movie opens with a thunderous, overly-serious narration with rolling credits that explain the mysteries of Africa. A sample goes something like this: "Africa! ... Where the thread of life is ... Shattered Glass Aside from its trite pun of a title, Billy Ray’s Shattered Glass is a scintillating morality play about the lengths to which some people will go in order to be accepted. The film is based ... Shaun of the Dead However, zombies have certainly been spoofed before to various degrees, from outright splatstick like Peter Jackson's Braindead (1992), to the more the more ironic humor of Dan O'Bannon's ... She's All That However, that said, "She's All That" turns out to be a surprisingly likable, often witty teen comedy that rises just above its silly material through the engaging performances of its lead actors, ... She's Out of My League [Blu-Ray] When we first meet Kirk, he is practicing a speech that he intends to deliver to his ex-girlfriend Marnie (Lindsay Sloane) as a means of winning her back. Marnie is not a particularly nice person, ... She's So Lovely Personally, I am not a big fan of this kind of film, and I have to admit this movie frustrated me. I don't mind crazy characters, but I like to have some kind of reasoning behind their mania. In ... She's the One The film revolves around the two squabbling Fitzpatrick brothers, Mickey (Edward Burns) and Francis (Mike McGlone), and their father (John Mahoney). The theme of the film seems to be the male ... Sherlock Holmes The team of screenwriters, which include newcomer Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham (Invictus), and Simon Kinberg (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) working from a screen story concocted by Lionel ... Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon [DVD] Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most persistently depicted characters in all of cinema history. Along with Count Dracula, there is no other literary creation who has enjoyed success in more ... Shine Unfortunately, David's life was ruled by his father, Peter (Armin Mueller-Stah). Their relationship is solidified early in the film when it shows David, after losing a talent competition, skipping ... Shine a Light [Blu-Ray] The very fact that the Stones are still rocking and rolling and doing so with arguably the same raw swagger, energy, and presence that they had decades ago is testament to their perseverance in an ... Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le pianiste) [DVD] The film begins in classic gangster movie mode, with a man running breathlessly through the streets, obviously trying to escape from someone who is chasing him. Almost as quickly, though, the film ... Shooter Shooter falls right in the same line, giving us scorching political subtext about government and military corruption while also firing the audience’s Death Wishes with John ... Shopgirl In Shopgirl, the titular woman is Mirabelle (Claire Danes in a beautifully wounded performance), a twentysomething who has come out to L.A. from her cloistered home in Vermont hoping to make ... Short Cuts [DVD] Thus, it seems almost destiny that Robert Altman, whom Pauline Kael once described as “the most atmospheric of directors,â€� would be the filmmaker to adapt Carver’s work to the screen. After ... Shrek 2 The titular ogre Shrek, he of the big green mug and funnel ears (voiced by Mike Myers), is now happily married to Princess Fiona (Cameron Dias), who, you may recall, was a beautiful princess who was ... Shrek Forever After In Shrek Forever After, writers Josh Klausner (Date Night) and Darren Lemke and director Mike Mitchell (Sky High) disguise their recycling of the previous entry’s ... Shrek the Third The story picks up with the still inexplicably Scottish-accented ogre Shrek (Mike Myers) and his ogre wife Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) temporarily installed as the king and queen of Far Far Away ... Shrek [DVD] Shrek (voiced by comedian Mike Myers with one of his slightly twisted Scottish accents) is a loner who lives in a shack in the swamp, happily isolated from everyone else. His idyll is destroyed when ... Shutter Island At his core, in his soul, Scorsese is a genre filmmaker, nourished on classical Hollywood movies and first tested in the realm of low-budget indies; he loves nothing more than to take the familiar ... Sicko After having taken on the auto industry, big business, the NRA, and the Bush Administration, Moore has now set his sights on the U.S. health insurance industry, the very epitome of the sacrifice of ... Sideways [Blu-Ray] Sideways is an alternately touching and hilariously earnest story about two middle-age men losing and finding themselves during a weeklong tour of the wine country in California’s Santa ... Signs Like the best science fiction, M. Night Shyamalan's Signs is about something other than what its plot is about. Taking the familiar sci-fi trope of the massive alien invasion--one character ... Silent Hill Of course, that's partial speculation because Silent Hill's primary flaw, in addition to being overlong, is that it doesn't make much sense (at least not to someone who is not intimately ... Silent Running [DVD] Bruce Dern stars as Freeman Lowell, one of four men aboard the spaceship Valley Forge, which maintains four biospheres. Unlike his three shipmates (Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, and Jesse Vint), Lowell ... Silver Bullet [DVD] When it came time to adapt Cycle of the Werewolf into a feature film (because, as we all know, there's a law somewhere on the books stating that everything Stephen King commits to paper must ... Simon Birch As a matter of fact, conventional is the best word to describe the film as a whole. As many know, "Simon Birch" is an adaptation of John Irving's 1989 novel "A Prayer For Owen Meany." Well, to ... Simone Although it springs from a clever and timely idea, Simone is a media satire that ultimately lacks bite. Taking aim at everyone from spoiled Hollywood actors, to investigative reporters, to an ... Simpatico British stage director Matthew Warchus' cinematic adaptation of Sam Shepard's 1994 off-Broadway play "Simpatico" is, if anything, an object lesson in how what works on-stage often does not translate ... Sin City [Blu-Ray] Yet, in hands of codirectors Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse) and Frank Miller, the comic book virtuoso whose graphic novel series the film is based on, Sin City becomes much more than ... Sisters [DVD] Sisters is Brian De Palma at his vicious, malicious best. An overt homage to Alfred Hitchcock, especially Psycho (1960), and made independently for less than half-a-million dollars, ... Six Days, Seven Nights Harrison Ford stars as Quinn Harris, a tough and salty charter pilot with a hidden soft side, who flies Robin Monroe (Anne Heche), a New York magazine editor, and her fiancee-to-be, Frank Martin ... Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow However, as the story gets going and the characters start to gel, a funny thing happens: Sky Captain becomes an imminently likable action-adventure throwback that reflects the saucy ... Slacker [DVD] There aren’t many movies that can claim to have coined a term that ended up in the dictionary, but Richard Linklater’s Slacker, a clever, low-budget experiment in non-narrative feature ... Sleepaway Camp [DVD] The actual revelation at the end is a memorable shocker, albeit one that is hardly unique in the realm of psycho horror movies. But, what makes it stick in your mind is the way Hiltzik presents it. ... Sleepers The film is based on the 1995 alleged memoir by Lorenzo Carcaterra. The author claims it is true, but many doubt its validity. When the book came out, there was a great deal of dispute about whether ... Sleepy Hollow [DVD] Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" is a wildly imaginative reinvention of Washington Irving's classic campfire ghost story about the Headless Horseman terrorizing a small, northeastern hamlet in the late ... Sling Blade [Blu-Ray] When we are first introduced to Karl, he is about to be released from the state mental institution. He has been there for the last 25 years after killing his adulterous mother and her lover with the ... Slither Slither is an absurdly funny, creepy-gross sci-fi/horror hybrid that is bulging at the seams with references to horror movies new and old, serious and campy, profound and forgettable. In one ... Slugs [DVD] "They slime. They ooze. They kill." No matter how bad the movie is, is it possible to completely detest a movie with a tag line like that? ... Slumdog Millionaire His latest, Slumdog Millionaire, is one of his most powerful successes, easily his best film in several years and one that has almost every reason not to work. Taking place in Mumbai, the ... Slums of Beverly Hills First of all, there's her own physical turmoil: her body has suddenly started developing, apparently out of nowhere, and she isn't sure if she likes this change. When the movie first opens, she is ... Small Soldiers "Battlefield" is an ironic, grisly little tale of a professional hitman who receives a package filled with G.I. Joe-type action figures that come to life and kill him. It's a demented, dark, funny ... Small Time Crooks The title of Woody Allen's "Small Time Crooks" would seem to suggest that it is a comedy about crime, but in fact, it is something quite different. Instead, it is a comedy about class. ... Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) [DVD] In fact, the film that truly made his international career, the one that got him recognition outside of his native Sweden for the first time and earned him the power to make films like The ... Smilla's Sense of Snow And then, just when we think we may be viewing a strange masterpiece, it completely falls apart in the last half-hour. The solution to the mystery is not only appalling in its sheer silliness, but ... Snake Eyes The same cannot be said for "Snake Eyes." The director, Brian De Palma (who is one of the few contemporary directors to consciously walk in Hitch's footsteps), attempts something similar, but to ... Snakes on a Plane When New Line, the studio behind Snakes on a Plane, tried to gussy up the flying freakshow with a somber moniker like Flight 121 or Pacific Air 121, salivating fanboys around ... Snatch In Snatch, British writer/director Guy Ritchie follows up his successfulindependent crime caper Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) with moreof the same: a story of comedic ... Snow Falling on Cedars For a film that features not only a doomed romance between members of different races, but also a courtroom murder-mystery that relies on last minute evidence to decide its outcome, "Snow Falling on ... Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Blu-Ray] Alas, quite the opposite happened, and a new popular artform was born. Disney had already established himself as a master of animation, with his “Silly Symphoniesâ€� redefining the relationship ... So I Married an Axe Murderer [Blu-Ray] Myers is at his worst when he tries to play “a regular guy,â€� which is precisely what he does for most of So I Married an Axe Murderer. His character is Charlie Mackenzie, an everyday guy ... Solaris (1972) [DVD] Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris is a pulsating, frustrating, enigmatic science fiction masterpiece, a film of great metaphysical weight that demands multiple viewings and an open mind. It is a ... Solaris (2002) [DVD] Steven Soderbergh’s film of Polish novelist Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris was advertised as a romance during its theatrical release, which is not entirely inaccurate, depending on what your ... Some Like It Hot [DVD] Curtis and Lemmon play Joe and Jerry, two struggling musicians trying to make ends meet during the Prohibition Era of the late 1920s. After witnessing the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in ... Someone Like You Someone Like You is about a decent woman who is burned by love, turns into aromantic cynic, then finds love again and ends the movie by disavowing her cynicism. ... Something's Gotta Give The issue of age is one that is usually left out of romantic comedies entirely. If one were to believe the world of this staple cinematic genre, one would have to assume that virtually no one above ... Son of Rambow [DVD] The idea of movies as the spark to enflame the great depths of childhood imagination is the heart of Son of Rambow, an energetic British comedy written and directed by Garth Jennings, the ... Sorority Boys Sorority Boys is a dumb comedy that takes a silly idea—three guys, thrown out of their cherished fraternity house after being accused of stealing party funds, disguise themselves as girls and ... Sorority Row That is the central dilemma in Sorority Row, the latest music-video-slick horror remake, this time of an underappreciated and largely forgotten low-budget effort from 1983 called House on ... South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut When you come right down to it, the entire essence of "South Park" (both theComedy Central TV series and the new movie), its modus operandi, as it were,can be boiled down to one thing: the humor of ... Southland Tales [Blu-Ray] The majority of the film takes place around the Fourth of July weekend in 2008 (which, had the film been released when it was originally made, would have been the near future), although it begins ... Southland Tales [DVD] The majority of the film takes place around the Fourth of July weekend in 2008 (which, had the film been released when it was originally made, would have been the near future), although it begins ... Space Cowboys Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys is a somewhat clumsy, but nevertheless enjoyable ode to the aged who aren't ready to declare themselves over the hill, a space adventure in which the heroes' ... Space Jam WB executives admitted they had the marketing scheme laid out long before they had a script or even an idea about what the film would be about. Instead of using marketing to increase awareness of a ... Spaceballs [Blu-Ray] According to Brooks, Spaceballs, which was the first film he had directed in six years, was intended as a parody of the science fiction genre, which he called “an untouched virgin field I ... Spartacus [DVD] Despite everything that is good about Spartacus, in many people's minds it will forever remain the one film Stanley Kubrick made as a "gun for hire." Brought in by actor/executive ... Spartan > In Spartan, David Mamet takes his signature elliptical approach to the well-worn Tom ... Speed 2: Cruise Control Bullock, who has a sly and wonderful way of bringing wit and charm to every project she's associated with, is relegated to little more than a bystander, unless she's being held hostage, at which time ... Speed Racer Speed Racer is the closest thing we have at this point to a studio-produced, megabudget experimental film, and while many will bemoan it as the Wachowskis’ next step into permanently ... Spellbound [DVD] Despite getting good reviews and several Oscar nominations when it was first released in 1945, in the long run, Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, the second of four films he would make with ... Spider Spider is one of the least overtly Cronenbergian films of David Cronenberg’s career—there are no twisted deformities, oozing placentas, fecal parasites, freaky gynecological tools, or loving ... Spider-Man Sam Raimi's Spider-Man is the best big-screen superhero movie since Richard Donner's Superman (1978). Like Donner, Raimi achieves a near-perfect balance between the humanistic and the ... Spider-Man 2 The core of the story is Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), who in the first film was dealing with adolescent turmoil while morphing into a wall-crawling superhero. This time around, he's a bit older, ... Spider-Man 3 First out of the gate, though, is also the most highly anticipated of the three-times's-the-charm crowd: Spider-Man 3. Once again helmed by Sam Raimi and featuring an amusing cameo by the ... Spirits of the Dead (Histoires extraordinaires, Tre passi nel delirio) [DVD] "Every fiction should have a moral; and, what is more to the purpose, the critics have discovered that every fiction has." -- Edgar Allen Poe, "Never Bet the Devil Your ... Splatter University [DVD] However, try as I might, I cannot find a single redeeming characteristic—not one—of Splatter University. The best I can say about it is that director/editor Richard W. Haines manages to ... Splice When the film opens, Brody’s Clive Nicoli and Polley’s Elsa Kast have already successfully spliced together the genes of several wildly disparate animals to create a pair of mushy-looking ... Spy Game In Spy Game, Robert Redford plays Nathan Muir, a 30-year veteran agent of the C.I.A. who finds out on the day of his retirement that his protégé, Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), has been captured ... Spy Kids Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids is a high-octane children's fantasy in which a coupleof kids find out that their parents are not only retired secret agents, but they have beenkidnapped by an ... Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams Like the first movie, Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams is a fantastically ridiculous kids' adventure-fantasy filled with bizarre creatures, outlandish gadgets, and ... Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over In Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, the third Spy Kids movie in as many years, writer/director/producer/composer Robert Rodriguez places his young mini-spies in the digital depths of a zany ... Stagecoach [DVD] Stagecoach, released during the heralded year of 1939, which also gave us Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz and Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, as well as ... Star Trek Bringing Gene Roddenberry’s visionary series back to life after many had written it off as destined for the pop-culture dustbin is not exactly a new trick. Robert Wise did it in 1979 with Star ... Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [Blu-Ray] The screenplay by television scribe Jack B. Sowards (who had never written for Star Trek before, or in the science fiction genre, for that matter) was a continuation of one of the original TV ... Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [DVD] Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the best of the Star Trek film series, a gloriously operatic revenge tale full of sound and fury, violence and vengeance, humor and empathy. It ... Star Trek III: The Search for Spock [Blu-Ray] As a first-time feature film director, Nimoy proves to be capable, although still decidedly wet behind the ears. Having been with Star Trek since it began as a TV show in the late 1960s, ... Star Trek III: The Search for Spock [DVD] Following on the heels of the grandly operatic Star Trek II: The Wrath of the Khan (1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock feels like it's practically crawling. While in no sense a ... Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home [Blu-Ray] The Voyage Home picks up right where Part III left off. Having literally brought Spock (Leonard Nimoy) back to life and directly disobeying Federation orders in the process, the crew ... Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home [DVD] The Voyage Home picks up right where Part III left off. Having literally brought Spock (Leonard Nimoy) back to life and directly disobeying Federation orders in the process, the crew ... Star Trek V: The Final Frontier [DVD] Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was William Shatner’s feature film directorial debut, and it shows in the film’s wildly inconsistent tone and meandering pace. The fundamental ideas behind ... Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country [DVD] Those who cherish the original episodes of the Star Trek TV series know well how creator Gene Roddenberry utilized the framework of science fiction to explore topics of current importance ... Star Trek: Insurrection [DVD] On the plus side, it is certainly admirable that screenwriter Michael Piller (working from a story he concocted with fellow Next Generation scribe and producer Rick Berman) would stay true to ... Star Trek: Nemesis Star Trek: Nemesis marks the 10th time the Starship Enterprise has "boldly gone where no man has gone before" on the big screen. It's been four years since the last installment, the poorly ... Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director's Edition [DVD] These days, it's too easy to take Star Trek for granted. Since the premiere of Gene Roddenberry's original, groundbreaking TV show in 1966, there have been close to a half-dozen spin-off ... Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace Is it possible? Could any movie do it? Could any movie live up to the pathological expectations and excessive hype that have swirled around "Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace" ever since it ... Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones Now, three years later, Lucas has emerged with the second of the new trilogy, Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones, and, while the expectations are different, they are no less ... Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith With this is mind, it is more clear than ever now that the Star Wars film saga, which is now complete with the release of Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith, has always been ... Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope (Special Edition) I was a part of that first generation of children to grow up with the film. I saw "Star Wars" for the first time when I was four years old, and I spent the next seven years collecting "Star Wars" ... Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back (Special Edition) So what did they do? Instead of following the same cheerful tone and pop culture mentality of the first, they instead created a dark middle installment that leaves more questions than answers. ... Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi (Special Edition) "Jedi" opens in grand fashion with the nefarious Jabba the Hutt, that giant, slimy, oozing slug of a gangster who is one of the most original and inspired villains of all time. Sitting on his ... Star Wars: The Clone Wars Intended as an introduction to a television series that will be premiering this fall, The Clone Wars is a fully computer-animated film that takes place between Episode II--Attack of the ... Stardust Then why is it that so many fantasy movies are not very good? I'll wager a guess, and that is the simple fact that filmmakers working in the realm of fantasy often try too hard. They're so elated ... Starship Troopers His answer: simply blow "Showgirls" out of the collective ... Starsky & Hutch > Long before Saturday Night Live’s superheroic “Ambiguously Gay ... State and Main [DVD] David Mamet's State and Main is a sly comedy about a crew of Hollywood filmmakers who descend on a picturesque small town in Vermont and turn it upside down. The film is both cynical and ... State of Play However, there is an additionally intriguing dynamic to Cal’s character, and one that is particularly crucial to the here and now: He is a dying breed. State of Play is a thriller about ... Stay The basics of the story go something like this: Henry Letham (Ryan Goslind) is a depressed, possibly suicidal college art student whose regular psychiatrist is out sick and has been replaced by Dr. ... Step Brothers Unfortunately, there is nothing so immediately funny in the movie, which is a crass, loud, and generally mean-spirited comedy that feels like it was hatched over a late-night get-together with only ... Stepmon The film was directed by Chris Columbus, who handled similar family crisis-oriented material with "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993). Like "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Stepmom" deals with divorce and its repercussions on ... Stigmata In "Stigmata," Patricia Arquette plays Frankie Paige, a carousing atheist hairdresser who is suddenly afflicted with the titular experience, which involves her physically manifesting the five wounds ... Stir of Echoes Roughly on par with saying, "I'll be right back," or going to a secluded upstairs bedroom to have sex, asking the question, "What's the worst that could happen?" is one of the most disastrous things ... Stop Making Sense Because they're usually not done very well, concert films have become a rare commodity in movie theaters. Either they're self-inflated and padded with unnecessary material like "U2: Rattle and Hum" ... Stop-Loss Nevertheless, here we have Stop-Loss, which admittedly has a slightly different angle in that it is more about the effects of war on returning soldiers than it is about the war itself, plus ... Storytelling [DVD] Prior to Storytelling, Todd Solondz had only written and directed two feature films, 1995's Welcome to the Dollhouse and 1998's Happiness, both of which were at the center of ... Strange Days These are questions posed by the startling premise of Kathryn Bigelow's science fiction thriller "Strange Days." The film takes place in the near distant future, New Year's Eve 1999 to be exact. ... Stranger Than Fiction [DVD] Stranger Than Fiction is strange that way. It is both a deconstructive meta-joke about the formulaic nature of even the best fiction and a crowd-pleasing heart-warmer that embraces formula, ... Stranger Than Paradise [DVD] The simplicity of Stranger Than Paradise can be misleading, its casual artfulness taken for humdrum geniality. It is the work of a true original, as Jarmusch's subsequent output over the past ... Strapless [DVD] David Hare's Strapless is both cynical and poignant in its examination of the opening stages of romance. It is cynical because it suggests that some people are incapable of moving beyond that ... Straw Dogs [DVD] Like Peckinpah’s brilliant revisionist Western The Wild Bunch (1969), Straw Dogs is not just a violent film, but a film about violence, which is what makes it so difficult to watch. ... Stray Dog (Nora inu) [DVD] Stray Dog was one of Kurosawa’s early collaborations with his favorite actor, Toshirô Mifune (they had first worked together the year before on Drunken Angel). The young, smooth-faced, ... Street Kings Street Kings plays like a cousin to Dark Blue (2003), a similarly themed corrupt-cop morality tale for which Ellroy provided the story and David Ayer, who directed Street ... Sugar & Spice Sugar & Spice is a silly teen satire about a group of cheerleaders who decide to roba bank in order to help their pregnant captain. There is something about the movie's premisethat seems ... Sullivan's Travels [DVD] Preston Sturges' fourth film as a director, Sullivan's Travels, has often been described as "Swiftian," and, indeed, its satire is as much akin to Jonathan Swift's incisive sensibilities as ... Summer Catch Summer Catch is an amiable, if unoriginal and prefabricated, sports drama about a self-destructive young pitcher trying to make up for past mistakes and find his way into the big league. ... Summer Hours (L’heure d’été) [DVD] The main characters are a trio of siblings: the eldest brother, Frédéric (Charles Berling), who is the only one who still lives in France, while the others are spread across the world; Adrienne ... Summer of Sam [DVD] "Summer of Sam" finally lost me about two-thirds of the way through. As everyone probably knows, the "Sam" of the title refers to "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, the serial killer who terrorized ... Sunset Boulevard [DVD] On the short list of great Hollywood films about Hollywood, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard is the greatest. Produced in 1949 and released in 1950, just as television was beginning its ... Sunshine The story takes place some 50 years in the future when the sun has begun to die, which means that life on Earth will soon be extinguished by a solar winter. A spaceship named the Icarus II, which ... Super Fuzz (Poliziotto superpiù) [DVD] In fact, before proceeding further, I will have to admit that my critical faculties are somewhat compromised in that I was one of those kids who saw Super Fuzz over and over again, usually ... Superbad [DVD] Seth Rogen, who has achieved something very close to stardom with his lead role in Knocked Up (2007), and Evan Goldberg, Rogen's childhood friend and writing partner, started penning this ... Superman Returns It’s a great, thought-provoking question for anyone who loves movies and has spent a considerable amount of time with them, and I found myself mulling it over quite a bit after seeing Bryan ... Supernova It is always a bad sign when a studio writes off a movie as a financial losslong before it is released, which is exactly what happened with MGM's$65-million "Supernova," a half-baked science fiction ... Survival Quest [DVD] “You survive with heart, not with hardware,â€� says Hank (Lance Henriksen), the tough, ut slightly mystical leader of the former group. His teachings emphasize group solidarity and an ethos that ... Suspended Animation John D. Hancock’s low-budget Suspended Animation is a wild, weird, sometimes fascinating, but more often head-scratching horror-thriller that’s been running the festival circuit for the ... Suzanne's Career (La Carrière de Suzanne) [DVD] Although he is fully aware of it, Bertrand constantly allows Guillaume to manipulate him, especially in his attempts to seduce women. Bertrand does this because he looks up to his friend, although, ... Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [DVD] Bringing such material to the screen is certainly a tricky endeavor, and plopping it down right in the middle of the Christmas season is such a delightfully morbid maneuver for a major studio that ... Sweet Home Alabama Director Andy Tennant's last film was 1999's Anna and the King, the florid tale of a refined 19th-century British woman who finds herself in the ancient Oriental kingdom of Siam, which is ... Sweet Movie [DVD] The divisive reaction to Sweet Movie is telling: This is not a film about which you can have mixed feelings. You either love it or loathe it; you are either on its wavelength or you feel ... Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Van Peebles, a black American who first gained recognition by writing novels in France, built "Sweet Sweetback" from the ground up almost entirely by himself. Because no studio would dare fund such a ... Swimming Pool François Ozon’s much-talked-about Swimming Pool features one of those “Huh?â€� endings that people love to discuss in serious tones as they walk out of the theater and drive home, as if ... Swing Vote And, voilà, you have the broad parameters of an election-year satire that could have gone in any number of directions. It could have been a caustic satire. It could have been a Capra-corn fable ... Swingers The film deals with four men who are living in Southern California and trying to make it as actors: Mike (John Favreau, who also wrote the screenplay), Trent (Vince Vaughn), Rob (Ron Livingston), and ... Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken) [DVD] Sword of the Beast takes place in 1857, a scant 10 years before the Meiji Emperor abolished the samurai system in Japan, effectively ending a military legacy centuries old. This, among other ... Swordfish The four college-age guys who sat in front of me in the theater watching Swordfishloved it--or at least certain parts of it. I could tell which parts they loved most because theywould rock ... Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One [DVD] This last characteristic is the film’s most intriguing and perplexing, and also the one in which Greaves appears to be most interested. At the time the film was made, Greaves had already long ... Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot) [DVD] The story begins in grand sentimental terms, giving us Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun), a fair-faced deaf-mute with green hair whose beloved older sister (Lim Ji-Eun) is dying and needs a kidney transplant. 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