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The Soup Nazi
The Soup Nazi is Yev Kassem, the strict soup vendor in the Seinfeld episode "The Soup Nazi" (S7E6, November 2, 1995), written by Spike Feresten and played by Larry Thomas, based on New York soup seller Al Yeganeh and source of the catchphrase "No soup for you!".
The Source (magazine)
The Source is the American hip-hop magazine founded in 1988 by David Mays and Jon Shecter at Harvard, known as the "Bible of Hip-Hop," creator of the five-mic rating and the Source Awards, distinct from the IWA water magazine and other namesakes.
The Source (عين النساء) (2011 film)
The Source (La Source des femmes; عين النساء) is a 2011 comedy-drama by Radu Mihaileanu, in Cannes Competition, about village women in North Africa staging a love strike until men bring running water, inspired by a 2001 Turkish event and Lysistrata.
The South
The South (El sur) is Víctor Erice's 1983 Spanish-French drama, adapted from Adelaida García Morales's novella, about a girl uncovering her father's secrets; production was halted 48 days into an 81-day shoot, leaving it famously unfinished.
The Southern Review
The Southern Review is a literary quarterly at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, founded in 1935, edited by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, and revived in 1965.
The Southern River Band
The Southern River Band, also known as The SRB, is an Australian rock band from Thornlie, Perth, formed in 2013, playing 1970s-style pub rock and topping the ARIA charts.
The Southern Vampire Mysteries
The Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse Novels) are Charlaine Harris's 13 urban fantasy mystery novels, 2001–2013, following telepathic Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse; basis for HBO's True Blood.
The Southerner
The Southerner (1945), also known as L'homme du sud, is Jean Renoir's independent American drama adapted from George Sessions Perry's novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand, starring Zachary Scott as a Texas sharecropper; it won the 1946 Venice Biennale best picture award and earned three Oscar nominations.
The Souvenir
The Souvenir (2019) is Joanna Hogg's semi-autobiographical drama about a film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) in a destructive 1980s London affair with Anthony (Tom Burke); Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, followed by The Souvenir: Part II (2021).
The Souvenir Part II
The Souvenir Part II (2021) is Joanna Hogg's semi-autobiographical sequel to The Souvenir, following film student Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) as she processes her lover Anthony's death by making her graduation film. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, released by A24, named Sight and Sound's best film of 2021.
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God is Mary Rowlandson's 1682 captivity narrative about her eleven weeks as a captive of Indigenous forces during King Philip's War, the first published in English.
The Space Between Us (film)
The Space Between Us is a 2017 STX science-fiction romance directed by Peter Chelsom, starring Asa Butterfield as the first human born on Mars and Britt Robertson; it grossed $7.8M and scored 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Space Lady
The Space Lady is the stage name of Susan Dietrich Schneider (born 1948), an American outsider electronic musician who busked Boston and San Francisco streets with a Casio MT-40, winged helmet, and covers like "Major Tom", revived after the 2013 Night School Greatest Hits.
The Space Trilogy
The Space Trilogy (Cosmic Trilogy) is C. S. Lewis's three science fiction novels, Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943), and That Hideous Strength (1945), following philologist Elwin Ransom to Mars, Venus, and Earth, blending medieval cosmology with Christian theology.
The Spanish Brabanter
The Spanish Brabanter (Spaanschen Brabander) is a comedy in verse by Amsterdam playwright Gerbrand Bredero, completed in 1617, about Jerolimo, a swindler posing as a wealthy grand seigneur.
The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python)
The Spanish Inquisition is a Monty Python's Flying Circus running sketch, first broadcast 22 September 1970, in which cardinals played by Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam burst in on the line "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."
The Spanish Princess
The Spanish Princess is a Starz historical drama (2019-2020, 16 episodes) created by Emma Frost and Matthew Graham from Philippa Gregory's The Constant Princess and The King's Curse, starring Charlotte Hope as young Catherine of Aragon, sequel to The White Queen and The White Princess.
The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy is a revenge tragedy by Thomas Kyd, written in the 1580s and first published in 1592, that established revenge tragedy on the English stage.
The Spark (Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew song)
The Spark: 2024 children's rap song by Irish groups Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew, written for Cruinniú na nÓg 2024, produced by Garry McCarthy (GMCBeats); viral drum-and-bass hit, released 13 June 2024 via Rubyworks/95.
The Sparks Brothers
The Sparks Brothers (2021) is Edgar Wright's debut documentary about Ron and Russell Mael of the art-pop band Sparks, covering 50 years and 25 albums; Sundance premiere, June 2021 US release, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Sparrow (文雀)
Sparrow (文雀, Man jeuk) is a 2008 Hong Kong film by Johnnie To about four pickpockets led by Simon Yam hired by Kelly Lin's mysterious woman; shot over four years, it competed at the 2008 Berlinale.
The Specialist
The Specialist is a 1994 American action thriller directed by Luis Llosa, starring Sylvester Stallone as a former CIA explosives expert alongside Sharon Stone and James Woods.
The Specials
The Specials are the Coventry, England 2 Tone ska band formed in 1977 by Jerry Dammers; their 1979 debut catalyzed the ska revival, and Ghost Town topped the UK chart in July 1981.
The Specials (2000 film)
The Specials (2000 film): American superhero comedy, 82 min, R, directed by Craig Mazin, written by and co-starring James Gunn as Minute Man; Rob Lowe, Thomas Haden Church, Jamie Kennedy; limited release 22 September 2000, $13.0K gross, 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Spectacular Now
The Spectacular Now is a 2013 American coming-of-age comedy drama directed by James Ponsoldt, adapted from Tim Tharp's 2008 YA novel by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, starring Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley; released by A24, it earned a Metacritic score of 82.
The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV series)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008-2009) is an animated Spider-Man series developed by Victor Cook and Greg Weisman for Kids' WB and Disney XD: two seasons, 26 episodes, Josh Keaton as Peter Parker, canceled after Sony returned animation rights to Marvel.
The Speech (The IT Crowd)
The Speech is Series 3, Episode 4 of The IT Crowd, aired 12 December 2008 on Channel 4, written and directed by Graham Linehan. Famous for the internet-in-a-box gag and the Douglas/April transgender subplot, it was removed from streaming in 2020.
The Speedway Murders
The Speedway Murders is a 2024 Australian true-crime docu-drama by Luke Rynderman and Adam Kamien about the unsolved 1978 Burger Chef murders of four teenagers in Speedway, Indiana, featuring ghost-narration reenactments and new evidence.
The Spencer Davis Group
The Spencer Davis Group: British beat/R&B band formed in Birmingham in 1963, also called the Rhythm and Blues Quartet, whose hits Keep On Running, Somebody Help Me, Gimme Some Lovin', and I'm a Man were sung by teenage Steve Winwood before he left to form Traffic in 1967.
The Sphere
The Sphere (Große Kugelkaryatide N.Y., Koenig Sphere) is Fritz Koenig's 25-foot bronze sculpture from the World Trade Center plaza, damaged but largely intact on 9/11, in Battery Park from 2002 and Liberty Park since 2017; distinct from the Las Vegas Sphere venue.