Category: Rics Reviews

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 […]

3 Days To Kill Hollywood’s onscreen portrayal of the notorious Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has changed quite a bit in the last 20 to 30 years. Whereas back then any movie character who was even remotely connected with The Agency was readily shown to be a bad guy and The Agency itself was always portrayed […]

300 Of all the military campaigns in history, none may be more extraordinary than in 480 BC, when a small Spartan army of approximately 300 stood alone to defend their land against the massive invading forces of The Persians, eventually going down in battle but not before slaughtering untold thousands of The Persian ranks, decimating […]

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 […]

3:10 To Yuma Both an action-packed Western and a compelling allegory of the Christian faith, director James Mangold comes up with the absolute best the genre has seen in a long time. As the legendary Robin Hood / Billy The Kid type outlaw, Russell Crowe pretty much tops himself again, giving us a bad guy […]

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 […]

Time After Time The key central core to any quality science fiction movie or TV show is that of having a good, strong basic story, not a far out psychedelic collection of “wildly original ideas” that only appeal to the hardcore, sci fi loving, saliva covered adult male virgin for whom a relationship with an […]