In the near future, when American super-aircraft fly into any country in the world and blow things up on a regular basis, three TOPGUNs, Lt. Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas), Lt. Kara Wade (Jessica Biel), and Lt. Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx) are joined by a cutting-edge, computerized, drone plane. On the way back from blowing up
Steel Dawn (1987)
A lone warrior of the future (Patrick Swayze) becomes a farmhand for a widow (Lisa Niemi). With the help of the foreman (Brion James), the nomad has to defend the farm from a local strongman (Anthony Zerbe), his gang, and his hired assassin (Christopher Neame). One of the many leather-clad, futuristic, desert films that came
Stigmata (1999)
After receiving the rosary of a deeply spiritual priest as a gift from her globetrotting mother, a Pittsburg woman (Patricia Arquette) begins bleeding from her wrists and taking on the other torments of Jesus. A scientist-priest (Gabriel Byrne) is sent by the Vatican to investigate, not knowing that Rome’s interest is only to keep an ancient
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Blue collar everyman Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is hypnotized at a party by his sister-in-law, opening up his ability to see ghosts. One ghost in particular, that of a missing girl who has been talking to Tom’s son for some time, has something she wants him to do. He just doesn’t know what. Quick Review:
Strange Days (1995)
Ex-cop Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) is a street dealer of the newest illegal drug, human memory tapes. He’s also a user, escaping into his past when he was with punk rocker Faith Justin (Juliette Lewis). As society crumbles around him, he is given a tape of a psychotic killer raping and murdering an old friend
Strange Invaders (1983)
Searching for his estranged wife after she dropped off their daughter and then disappeared, Charles Bigelow (Paul Le Mat) travels to her hometown that appears to be unchanged since 1958. It is also infested with body stealing aliens. Fleeing from the extraterrestrials, he teams up with tabloid “journalist” Betty Walker (Nancy Allen) to uncover the
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
There is a rule about corpses not telling stories due to being dead. But all rules can be broken, and only a corpse could recount this gothic tale of a silent star stuck in the past and a man who sells his soul a bit too cheaply.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Fifteen years ago, a naive barber (Johnny Depp) was falsely imprisoned by a corrupt judge (Alan Rickman) who lusted after his wife. Now, the newly christened Sweeney Todd is back, obsessed with revenge. Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), the maker of the worst pies in London, teams up with Sweeney, who she always loved, with a simple
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
King Titus Cromwell (Richard Lynch) summons a demonic sorcerer (Richard Moll) to aid him in conquering a neighboring kingdom, then betrays the sorcerer, but fails in his attempt to kill him. Years later, Prince Mikah (Simon MacCorkindale), the closest thing anyone can find to an heir to the slain king, and his sister Alana (Kathleen
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Five strangers, lost in a tomb, sit before The Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson) as their stories are told. The stories: All Through The House — A woman (Joan Collins) murders her husband on Christmas Eve, with a Santa killer outside the house. Reflection of Death — A man (Ian Hendry), runs off with his mistress
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
One of the suitors for the beautiful Bianca (Natasha Pyne) gets his money-hungry friend, Petruchio (Richard Burton), to woo her wild sister, Catarina (Elizabeth Taylor). Petruchio attempts to change Kate into a dutiful wife with mind games and “kindness.” I can’t say what stands out more in this very traditional rendition of Shakespeare’s comedy, the