Category: Rics Reviews

Twilight Zone: The Movie A fascinating experiment more than anything, seeing four directors and four varying styles compete for the best story, and the results are mixed. The mood is set beautifully by Landis with the opening chords of Creedance’s “Midnight Special”, and Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks have an easy, unforced chemistry as they […]

Twilight: Eclipse After the spectacular comeback in quality that the second film in the series made over the awful first entry, things were guaranteed to take a step down for the third entry. After the VERY interesting setup of the love triangle between Robert Pattinson’s Edward, Taylor Lautner’s Jacob, and Kristen Stewart’s Bella, things settle […]

Twilight: New Moon Well, it’s certainly clear that the differences between this film and its awful predecessor are like night and day: Perhaps it’s the fact that the main characters are now well-established and that it allows the story to hit the ground running, or maybe because it actually delves into some of the mythology […]

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Undoubtedly one of David Lynch’s most popular creations (if not his best) was the network TV show Twin Peaks, a series that utilized Lynch’s trademark oddball style in the format of a prime time soap opera, featuring a slew of very weird characters (played by some very respectable actors) […]

2001: A Space Odyssey Routinely cited as the greatest of all Kubrick movies, it can be said that this is certainly Kubrick’s best-LOOKING movie: The visuals are astounding even today, living proof that models and miniatures are much more worth the trouble than CGI will ever be, and just how in 1968 Kubrick managed that […]

Two Thousand Maniacs! The second in H.G. Lewis’ infamous “Blood Trilogy” (after Blood Feast) is in many ways better than its predecessor, with improved production values, an actual music soundtrack, and an encompassing feeling of dread throughout disguised by what appears on the surface to be down home country boy humor. The plot (inspired by […]

U Turn Sometimes even the greatest of directors can be known to stretch their wings and attempt to fly in a new direction. Even when said director is one whose work has already been considered on a regular basis to be the best of his generation. Such a director is Oliver Stone, whose output throughout […]

Ugly Truth You know, in this day and age where so-called “men” try to flaunt their sensitive side by prancing around in women’s shoes all the while getting themselves tattoos in order to mask their huge emotional insecurities, what it all comes down to is that at the end of the day (unless they consider […]

UHF Is there a more underappreciated comedy genius maybe ever than the one and only “Weird” Al Yankovic? Here’s a man who managed to become a household name in the 1980s with his on target, sidesplitting parodies of such popular songs as Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” and Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” (along with his near […]

Unbreakable After his daring, Oscar nominated, phenomenom with a twist ending called The Sixth Sense that rocked the world in 1998, M. Knight Shylamalan would return two years later with a movie that was HORRIBLY mismarketed upon release as a story about a man who cheats death and questions his own mortality (ala Fearless) but […]