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 brink’s truck full of money up to the front door of both men’s homes, the inevitability of yet another sequel would indeed come to […]
Richard Pryor Here And Now For his final concert movie, it’s 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 “comeback” 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 “concert films”, in which a performance would […]
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 […]