Return Of The Living Dead A Cult Masterpiece that, in terms of sheer outrageousness, very nearly tops anything that George Romero ever came up with, all while having the balls to actually use Romeroās original movie as a jumping off point, making several references to it in the dialogue (āIt worked in the movie!ā āYou […]
Return Of The Living Dead Part 2 Dan OāBannonās 1985 Return Of The Living Dead was not only a breath of fresh air for the zombie movie subgenre (and also proved that George A. Romero did NOT have the market cornered on cinematic zombies), it also exerted just as much influence on the 80s horror […]
Return Of The Pink Panther Sometimes a popular movie franchise can hit its peak at the most inopportune times for both an actor and director. The year was 1975. It had been over 10 years since A Shot In The Dark had come out and solidified Inspector Jacques Clouseau as a veritable legendary comedy character. […]
Revenge Of The Nerds Call it luck, call it what you will, but sometimes on the unlikeliest of projects everything comes together to produce a modern classic that never outlives its popularity. With it’s near seamless ensemble, crackerjack writing and gags (which grow mostly out of the characters and their development), and semi-cool soundtrack of […]
Revenge Of The Nerds 2: Nerds In Paradise In my humble opinion there is almost nothing more shameful than taking one of the Grand Masterpieces of Raunchy 80s Comedies and producing a sequel that winds up being rated PG-13. You’re basically neutering, cutting the balls off what made the original great, and coming up with […]
Revenge Of The Pink Panther By 1978, both Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers had declared themselves to be DONE with The Pink Panther Franchise, but when the studio practically backed a brinkās truck full of money up to the front door of both menās homes, the inevitability of yet another sequel would indeed come to […]
Richard Pryor Here And Now For his final concert movie, itās pretty clear that Pryor (who also directed) was openly acknowledged as a genius by this point, and perhaps that gave him the right to be a tad self-indulgent in his style here. Shot in 1983 on location in New Orleans, the film is nowhere […]
Richard Pryor Live On The Sunset Strip Considered to be his ācomebackā performance in 1982 after nearly killing himself by setting himself on fire, any scholars of great stand-up comedy should study films like this for decades to come. It also harkens back to the old days of āconcert filmsā, in which a performance would […]