Category: Ric Review

Back To The Future This truly Immortal Classic, released in 1985 and almost instantly becoming one of the most beloved works in the history of cinema that still retains its enormous popularity today, works so well because in spite of the sci fi / time travel elements, has at its core a moving, touching, and […]

Back To The Future Part 2 Sequels are usually by definition inferior to their originals (with some notable exceptions), but manage to get themselves by at least attempting to recapture SOME of the magic and awe of their predecessors, usually with mixed results depending on certain elements like the passion of the filmmakers involved, the […]

Back To The Future Part 3 The Back To The Future Trilogy remains to this day one of the finest cinematic franchises ever conceived.  The first was an extraordinary one of a kind classic, never to be topped, that placed an emphasis on love of one’s family over the scientific paradoxes of time travel (with […]

Backdraft Used to be a time when the name “Ron Howard” being promoted as the director of a major movie would be a sort of curiosity piece for audiences who would come out to see if the beloved Opie (not to mention the immeasurably dorky and awkward teenage boy from American Graffiti and Happy Days) […]

Bad Dreams We all remember how The Golden Age Of Horror in the 80s with their various lucrative franchises and iconic villains in many ways defined what made the genre so entertaining at the time, but what was also interesting was the trend of one shot, “one off” horror movies that nonetheless were MARKETED at […]

Badder Santa A film that will easily go down as one of the most cynical and mean-spirited Christmas movies ever will also go down as one of the funniest.  Billy Bob Thornton brings the right touch of bitterness and pathos to the role of Willie, an ex-con who only works 30 days out of the […]

Barry Lyndon The career of Stanley Kubrick was as such that even though he only directed 13 feature films in his lifetime, every single one of them is considered to be a classic in one way or another by most people.  Yet, there is always some debate about just which one of his films (especially […]

Basic Instinct It’s hard to believe that the genre of erotic thriller is now almost considered a lost cinematic art form of the 1990s.  Featuring lurid stories consisting of deceitful women, betrayal, and lots and lots of sex, these films became a never ending staple on late night pay cable during that decade (practically leading […]

Basket Case Director Frank Henenlotter’s tribute to the low-budget grindhouse flicks of the 60s and 70s (dedicated to H.G. Lewis himself) is in and of itself one of the most gruesome and disturbing films of the actual genre it homages.  The story of a young man who comes to New York City carrying a basket […]

Batman Tim Burton’s 1989 extravaganza of an adaptation (the first major comic book movie since the Donner Supermans) might surprise some to know that there was actually some legit controversy at the time of release due to its dark tone and violence, when in actuality it comes across today as almost the perfect kid’s movie, […]