Risky Business Right from the get-go, it’s pretty clear that writer-director Paul Brickman is nowhere in the ballpark of John Hughes when it comes to 80s teen angst (and probably why he has only directed one other film in the 25+ years since): The dialogue fails to be deep and insightful (“What the fuck?” seems […]
River Wild When the time came for oft-nominated actress Meryl Streep (considered the Grande Dame of American acting) to try her hand at a more “commercial” project, out she came with this action-suspense thriller from 1994, and while it seems that the script was a bit below her prodigious talents, one can quickly see how […]
Road House Sometimes a movie is made that breaks all the rules and defies all the conventions of screenwriting, story, dialogue, action, and character development, and while it may be dismissed by many mundane thinking type people as being “corny”, “cheesy”, or even “stupid”, there’s just something about the excessively glorious, gratuitous nature of the […]
Road To Perdition Gangster movies over the years have meditated on all sorts of different angles when it comes to that violent, sordid lifestyle, from the coping with tragedy of The Godfather, to the joy of the day to day criminal life of Goodfellas, to being overcome by the excesses of said lifestyle as with […]
Robin Hood: Men In Tights In his later years, Mel Brooks has proven himself to be pretty hit or miss with his irrelevant movie comedy style that was perfected by the ZAZ team, and this effort, an attempt to skewer the Costner version of the story, is no exception, coming out with an extremely unfunny […]
Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves The story of Robin Of Locksley (aka Robin Hood) is most likely a true one, an English nobleman who returned home from The Crusades in the early 1100s to find his homeland turned inside out from greed, corruption and pure evil, only to join up with an army of peasants […]
Robocop 2 With the smashing success of Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop in 1987 the studios were keen on making a sequel, and quickly. Verhoeven himself dropped out of the game right off the bat, feeling that there was no artistic value in such an endeavor. His replacement generated some excitement in the form of Irvin Kershner, […]
Robocop 3 1987’s Robocop remains one of the great sci fi action classics of all time, a raw, gritty epitome of badass that took a chancey premise and, in the hands of visionary director Paul Verhoeven, achieved greatness with a surprising amount of simplicity in its own story as well. 1990 would see the release […]
Rock N Roll High School This 1979 cult classic, an attempt by Roger Corman to recreate those 1950s teenage rock films where the kids just wanted to have their music to dance to against the wishes of the stuffy town elders, until some guest rock star rolled into town and taught them that hey, rock […]