Category: Rics Reviews

Where The Buffalo Roam The cinematic renderings (and portrayals) of one Dr. Hunter S. Thompson have ultimately turned out to be a mixed bag, perhaps because Thompson himself was such a crazed yet enigmatic figure. The original, one, true “Gonzo Journalist” (even as several others have since professed to have taken after him but never […]

White Buffalo The actual, real life Wild West has somehow become so mythical that sometimes it becomes difficult to tell what is (historically) true and what is merely the stuff of legend, a situation which is not helped by the glut of Western movies (of which some are legitimately great) which serve to mostly further […]

White Heat In the 1930s, James Cagney was the undisputed king of the old school gangster movie. Often co starring in these films with Humphrey Bogart (whom he would regularly make his bitch), Cagney seemed to revel in playing amoral, ruthless criminal scumbags and audiences would line up in droves in order to see him […]

White Line Fever Sometimes the biggest Achilles Heel to any kind of a movie trying to stand apart on its own is with its issues of sheer implausibility. Whether it happens because the filmmakers are looking to make a hit film and don’t want their audience to be bored to tears or if it’s just […]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Golden Age Of Cartoons had a certain style and mindset that was the same across the board no matter what studio produced the given piece of work, that of an animated world where political correctness was unknown, wanton violence and destruction was always used as a source of humor, and […]

Whole Nine Yards In some ways, this could be looked at as a retread of Ruthless People, but with fewer laughs. However, it does more than make up for that in charm with a game cast and good direction from veteran journeyman Jonathan Lynn. Like Ruthless, the story features mostly detestable characters each with their […]

Wild At Heart As Morgan Freeman once famously said at the end of Se7en: “Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.’ I believe in the second part.” Indeed, what defines the terms of what makes our world “fine” can often fall upon grey areas, as while it can […]

Wild Bunch Sometimes you can have a situation where a movie that is considered by many to be “great” is thought of as such for having a truly amazing opening scene and an unforgettable finale on top of it, but really everything in between not really proving to have that much of a story along […]

Wild Orchid People often forget that before he became the lovably eccentric cult actor with a Best Actor Oscar Nomination for his peerlessly brilliant performance in The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke in the 1980s was arguably the top male movie star sex symbol in the world (although not necessarily in The USA), so beloved was he […]

Wild Things The 1990s were definitely the era of the erotic thriller, softcore sex fests that would feature storylines of deception, deceit and betrayal as per the film that spawned the genre in Basic Instinct. Most of these movies were of a lower budgeted variety (special effects are not widely needed for practically shot sex […]