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Slim Pickens
Slim Pickens (Louis Bert Lindley Jr., 1919–1983) was an American rodeo clown turned western character actor, famous as Major Kong riding the bomb in Dr. Strangelove (1964) and as Taggart in Blazing Saddles (1974).
Slime (film)
Slime is an upcoming American animated dystopian sci-fi monster film, the feature directorial debut of Jeron Braxton, starring Kid Cudi as Glenn and Willow Smith as Muna, produced by Hammerstone Studios, Mad Solar, and Capstone Global.
Slimer
Slimer, also called Onionhead or the Green Ghost, is the gluttonous green ghost from Ghostbusters (1984), a Class 5 full-roaming vapor and the first ghost captured; named in the 1986 Real Ghostbusters cartoon and inspired by John Belushi.
Sling Blade
Sling Blade is a 1996 Miramax drama written, directed by, and starring Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers, adapted from his stage play and the 1993 short Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade; it won Thornton the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.
Slip
Slip is a 2023 seven-episode Roku Channel comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Zoe Lister-Jones, in which Mae Cannon slips into parallel universes, each married to a different partner, after a one-night stand.
Slipknot (comics)
Slipknot (Christopher Weiss), DC Comics supervillain created by Gerry Conway and Rafael Kayanan, debuting in The Fury of Firestorm #28 (1984); a rope-wielding former chemist, Firestorm foe, Suicide Squad member, and 2016 film character played by Adam Beach.
Slippin' Jimmy
Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy is a 2022 six-episode AMC+ animated prequel about young Jimmy McGill, the future Saul Goodman, scamming through 1970s Catholic school in Chicago with friend Marco; each short parodies a film genre.
Slither (2006 film)
Slither (2006) is James Gunn's horror-comedy directorial debut about alien slugs invading Wheelsy, South Carolina, starring Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, and Michael Rooker; a box-office flop that became a cult classic with an 87% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Sliver (film)
Sliver is a 1993 American erotic thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, and Tom Berenger, adapted from Ira Levin's 1991 novel.
Slow Horses
Slow Horses is a British Apple TV espionage drama adapted from Mick Herron's Slough House novels, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, head of an MI5 dumping ground for disgraced agents. Six-episode seasons have aired annually since April 2022, with seasons 7 and 8 confirmed.
Slow West
Slow West (2015) is John Maclean's feature-debut revisionist Western, a UK/New Zealand co-production starring Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee, set in 1870 Colorado but shot in New Zealand, winner of the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.
Slugterra
Slugterra is a Canadian CGI animated series (2012–2016) created by Asaph Fipke, following Eli Shane, who fires transforming slugs from blasters against Dr. Blakk; also a franchise of films, Slugisodes, and Slug it Out 2.
Slumberland (film)
Slumberland (2022) is a Netflix family fantasy film directed by Francis Lawrence, starring Jason Momoa as Flip and Marlow Barkley as Nemo, loosely based on Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland strip; released theatrically November 11, 2022 and streaming November 18, 2022.
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle, about a Mumbai orphan competing on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?; it won eight Academy Awards.
Slums of Beverly Hills
Slums of Beverly Hills is a 1998 American comedy-drama, Tamara Jenkins's first feature, starring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, and Marisa Tomei as a family chasing a Beverly Hills address.
Small & Mighty (正义的算法)
Small & Mighty (正義的算法) is a 2022 Taiwanese legal comedy-drama, Disney+'s first original Taiwanese series, co-produced with bilibili by Yoosonn Entertainment. Directed by Hsu Fu-hsiang, starring Chen Bo-lin and Puff Kuo; 26 episodes aired June 15 to July 21, 2022.
Small Axe (anthology)
Small Axe is Steve McQueen's 2020 anthology of five films (Mangrove, Lovers Rock, Red White and Blue, Alex Wheatle, Education) on London's West Indian community, 1968–1984, for BBC One and Amazon Prime.
Small Change
Small Change (L'Argent de poche, "Pocket Money") is François Truffaut's 1976 French comedy-drama about children in Thiers; also a 1976 Tom Waits album on Asylum and a Peter Gill play.
Small Faces (1996 film)
Small Faces (1996) is a British coming-of-age drama directed by Gillies MacKinnon, set in 1968 Glasgow, about the Maclean brothers and gang violence; it won the 1996 Rotterdam Tiger Award.
Small Prophets
Small Prophets is a 2026 BBC Two sitcom created, written and directed by Mackenzie Crook, starring Pearce Quigley and Michael Palin, about a man growing prophesying homunculi in his Manchester garden shed; renewed for a BBC One second series.
Small Soldiers
Small Soldiers is a 1998 American live-action science-fiction comedy directed by Joe Dante, in which military microchips bring toy action figures to life as warring factions.
Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan's 2021 Booker-nominated novella and Tim Mielants' 2024 film starring Cillian Murphy as coal merchant Bill Furlong, set in 1985 New Ross, Ireland, confronting Magdalene laundry abuses.
Small Town, Big Story
Small Town, Big Story is a six-part Sky comedy drama created, written and directed by Chris O'Dowd, starring Christina Hendricks and Paddy Considine, set in the fictional Irish village Drumbán, premiered 27 February 2025.
Small Wonder (TV series)
Small Wonder: American sci-fi family sitcom in first-run syndication 1985-1989, 4 seasons, 96 episodes. Created by Howard Leeds; Ted Lawson's robot daughter V.I.C.I. (Vicki), played by Tiffany Brissette, a syndication hit despite poor reviews.
Smallfolk
Smallfolk: in-universe term for the common people of Westeros in Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, and the title of House of the Dragon season 2 episode 6 (2024), written by Eileen Shim, in which King's Landing riots and Seasmoke claims Addam of Hull.
Smallfoot
Smallfoot is a 2018 American computer-animated musical comedy from Warner Animation Group in which a young yeti named Migo discovers a human, reversing the Bigfoot legend.
Smallville
Smallville (2001-2011) is the WB/CW Superman origin drama by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, starring Tom Welling as young Clark Kent under the "no tights, no flights" rule; 218 episodes, longest-running superhero TV series.
Smart Guy
Smart Guy is an American WB sitcom (1997-1999, three seasons) created by Danny Kallis, starring Tahj Mowry as 10-year-old genius T.J. Henderson who skips six grades into high school with siblings Marcus and Yvette and widowed father Floyd.
Smash (TV series)
Smash (NBC, 2012–2013) is an American musical drama created by Theresa Rebeck and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, about staging a Marilyn Monroe Broadway musical, Bombshell; 32 episodes, canceled after two seasons, later adapted for Broadway in 2025.
Smashed (film)
Smashed (2012) is an American drama directed by James Ponsoldt, co-written with Susan Burke, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul as a couple divided by her sobriety; Sundance premiere, Sony Pictures Classics, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.