Raising Cain Brian De Palma has spent his entire career making classic movies from the realms of horror, action and of course, suspense filled homages to Alfred Hitchcock, a trait of his that grew so strong many compared him favorably as being the heir apparent of Hitchcockâs style of filmmaking. Several other great (non Hitchcock […]
Rambo Seeing Stallone return to playing one of his most iconic characters ever certainly arouses the old curiosity, and the first issue off the bat is his age, which has been much talked about: Thankfully, the older, craggier Rambo suits the character fine, since Rambo was always meant to be somewhat of a grotesque figure. […]
Rambo: First Blood Part 2 A film so expressly in touch with 80s conservatism that seemingly Ronald Reagan himself could have written the screenplay, this second entry in the Rambo saga, while not quite as fun to watch as the superior Rocky 4 (which came out around the same time), is still a good hearty […]
Real Genius So called 80s movies are great to so many simply because their appeal is almost indefinable although it could just be the general lack of âpolitical correctnessâ, a known relaxing of the rules of the time when it came to humor and content that in and of itself reflected the more relaxed social […]
ReAnimator Horror movies in the 80s was a grand time, as we saw one classic film (and franchise) after another, with the irony being that many of these âclassicsâ of the era were actually quite derivative of prior classics that had come before them, yet still had enough squeamish verve and insanity to satisfy audiences […]
Rebel Without A Cause Thought of by many for being a film where all three of its lead actors, James Dean (car accident), Natalie Wood (drowning), and Sal Mineo (stabbed to death) came to tragic early ends, Nicholas Rayâs most famous work marked new territory for truly examining the ins and outs of teen culture […]
