Category: Rics Reviews

Dark Knight Well, right off the bat, Chris Nolan has certainly improved on Batman Begins. What was a long, sometimes ponderous buildup to a handful of cool Bat-moments in the first one, is now a fire-on-all-cylinders right off the bat action epic. One thing that struck me watching it was just how COMPLEX the story […]

Dark Knight Rises The impact of the late Heath Ledger’s Oscar winning performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight was incredibly monumental, as Ledger had not only successfully redefined an iconic character, but he had also laid out that same character with a seemingly fresh new philosophy and ethos that had come to embody […]

Dark Shadows While some of his fans debate and lament over the fact that Johnny Depp (undoubtedly one of the most talented and versatile actors of this or any generation) has yet to win an Oscar for any of his various roles, a closer look might indicate that Depp having not been honored (yet) might […]

Darkman When the announcement came out that there would be a big studio, big budget adaptation of the DC Comics character Batman, there was a lot of jockeying and scrambling going on among Hollywood’s top directors as to who would get to direct the first (and at the time, only) major comic book movie since […]

Dave What was originally conceived in its time to be a typical, light political satire and commonplace Hollywood valentine to the Clinton administration has now emerged as a film more relevant today than it ever was 17 years after its release.  The concept, of a sitting U.S. President who suffers a major stroke and for […]

Day Of The Dead A popular wasted ambition nowadays from many, many untalented wanna-be screenwriters when they try to write a horror movie is that they ALWAYS try to do a zombie movie, when the sad truth is that George A. Romero (and Dan O’Bannon) pretty much defined and perfected the genre with their work […]

Dazed And Confused The high school classics that are all about growing up as a teenager have all come to have their own defining characteristics that separate them from the rest of the pack yet they remain united in the shared display of TRUTH that they all bring to the table.  Richard Linklater’s 1993 opus […]

Dead Alive The film that announced Peter Jackson to the world as a filmmaker to be reckoned with, while not quite the work of sheer manic genius that Meet The Feebles was, is still an hilarious, and extemely gory opus of bad taste. The film suffers from the fact that it takes awhile to really […]

Dead Heat The 80s if nothing else was a period where any idea that a screenwriter could come up with that was at least partially original would be treated with deference by somebody in the industry and usually get made even if a lower budget was assigned to it.  This 1988 release seemed to be […]

Dead In Tombstone Nobody in the history of Hollywood has ever paid their dues more thoroughly or more exhaustively than one Danny Trejo.  Starting out as an extra going from one film set to the next (often without even knowing nor caring what the name of the film was or what it was even about) […]