Category: Ric Review

A Fish Called Wanda Often cited by film fans as the “Funniest Film Of All Time”, this viewer would actually be prone to agree that it may very well be the funniest of the 80s. Written by and starring Monty Python Legend John Cleese and directed by British filmmaking icon Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill […]

Fistful Of Dollars The Spaghetti Western not only revolutionized the Western genre with gritty violence and darker characters and motivations, it also revolutionized the film industry itself, proving that foreign films (if good enough) could shake that very stigma of having been spawned in a foreign culture and be accepted by audiences worldwide including American […]

Flags Of Our Fathers War movies have been known for showing the horrors of combat, of making us relate to the men involved, but should always leave no doubt that that all of these men were heroes with a ton of courage. Clint Eastwood’s 2006 war film, about the Battle Of Iwo Jima, appears to […]

Flash Gordon There have been very few producers in the history of world cinema who have better possessed the deceptively simple ability to GET THINGS DONE than the one and only Dino De Laurentiis. Once committed to a project, the man wasted little time to get all of the principals onto a set, get the […]

Flashback It is a well-documented fact that by 1989, Dennis Hopper (who literally changed the world with his 60s classic Easy Rider) had come out of his tailspin and cleaned up his act enough to be a respected, much-sought after actor and director, but he still was self-aware of his image enough to accept a […]

Flesh And Blood Show As I pour thru the collected works of director Pete Walker and his continued demonstrations of how NOT to make a British horror movie, I was struck by the fact that this film actually had a not-so-bad screenplay and concept, however Walker’s stodgy style of directing drags it down to the […]

Fletch The legend of Chevy Chase began in 1975 when he became the breakout star during the inaugural run of Saturday Night Live, outshining John Belushi and the rest of the roster with his smooth, cocky, yet bumbling demeanor and almost overnight gained a legion of fans that would follow him wherever he would go, […]

The Fly ‘58 The 1950s was definitely the era of the “big” monster horror movies, due in many ways to the rapid advancements in makeup FX technology and fueled mainly by cold war paranoia which subsequently saw many of these creatures having been created through the means of atomic radiation accidents. Of course, a nice […]

Fly 2 Most sequels to classic films almost always know in general that they have a tough act to follow which in the end usually comes down to the exact execution of said sequel in terms of its quality. Case in point is this 1989 release which tasked itself as being an all purpose follow […]

Flyboys While watching this flick about the world’s first fighter pilots in World War I, this viewer found himself thinking that this is a classic case of a film being grossly OVERproduced: Everything is too cleaned up and neat, the cinematography tries to be a work of art on every shot, and the lighting is […]