Category: Ric Review

There’s Something About Mary Before movie comedy dropped off the precifice in the 21st century, there was one film left to be made that redefined the term “instant classic” before even its own makers drudged into a series of mostly unfunny dreck. Bobby and Peter Farrelly had already established a style that combined gross out […]

They Live There are some films that at the time of release are enjoyed and appreciated as a fun B movie experience and makes a nice chunk of change, but in the years (and decades) to come take on a whole new meaning as an eerily prescient, timely up to the present day piece of […]

Things Are Tough All Over Widely considered by diehard fans to be the “worst” of the classic Cheech And Chong comedies, this marked an interesting clash in philosophies between the duo, as Cheech wanted to prove that they could be funny without the excessive drug humor, whilst Chong felt that they should stick with what […]

Thirteenth Floor In 1999, a little movie came out called The Matrix that many say changed the face of science fiction AND action movies forever. It certainly tapped into the technological aspects of the era in which it was made, showing us a reality where computer simulations were now so realistic that it was impossible […]

This Is Spinal Tap The music industry has often been ripe for satire and no form of music has never been more gloriously or stupidly as FUN as that of heavy metal in its pure, unfiltered real life form. From the late 70s through the full decade of the 1980s, the genre represented little more […]

Thor This particular entry in the Marvel Movies Sweepstakes thankfully strives to be less like the awful Captain America movie and more at times like the Iron Man series. Some adjectives that can be used to describe it include corny, cheesy, goofy, occasionally stupid, and also pretty damn entertaining as well, possibly intended to leave […]

Three Kings The First Gulf War in 91 was a relatively simple affair by most standards, a basic sweep and clear of the invading Iraqi forces into Kuwait, no great victory by any means, but certainly not a fiasco either. That said, the cinematic potential for stories about the conflict wind up being pretty limited, […]

Three O’Clock High By 1987, the so called 80s high school comedy had seemed to touch on nearly every nook and cranny of teenage life, especially in the work of John Hughes in particular and the remaining avenues for viable storylines and subjects had started to get pretty thin. Black comedy was probably the only […]

Throw Momma From The Train If one looks at the directorial efforts of Danny DeVito, it is easy to detect a distinctly dark sense of humor in his work, albeit with a heavy dose of overly comedic elements in order to keep people laughing and thus for the most part be able to retain a […]

Thunderball After the smashing success of Goldfinger, here we get perhaps the most GENERIC of all the Bond movies, symbolized by the return of Terence Young to the director’s chair instead of the prior film’s Guy Hamilton, and with it, the sluggish pacing returns with a vengeance. After an opening which features Bond slugging it […]