Category: Rics Reviews

Devil’s Advocate It can be fairly easy to wonder at times if the super upper class (aka the “1%”) of the rich and powerful did so through the most insidious means, possibly selling their soul (maybe many times over) to achieve the wealth and privilege that it seems is off limits to most of us.  […]

Diamonds Are Forever With the departure of George Lazenby from the Bond films after one outing (depending on what source you listen to, he was either fired or quit), the producers offered Sean Connery an INSANE amount of money to come back and play Bond one more time before the advent of the Roger Moore […]

Dick Tracy It’s hard to believe that at one time it was almost considered to be a huge risk for a major studio to greenlight a movie that was based upon a comic book or a comic strip.  Even in the wake of the success that was Donner’s Superman, Hollywood still proved to be pretty […]

Die Another Day It was extremely clear by this point, after 40 years and 20 movies, that the James Bond Franchise as we knew it was dying fast: Every possible concept, idea, and storyline within the formula had been milked to a dry bone, which led to star Pierce Brosnan and the producers screaming for […]

Die Hard Every once in a while we get what comes along that which is known as a “blueprint” movie, one which epitomizes everything that is perfect about a particular genre for all time and thus in doing so lays down the foundation for nearly all the films in that given genre yet to come.  […]

Die Hard 2: Die Harder 1988’s Die Hard stands forever as being the one film that set the modern standard for almost all action movies that have come since, a taut, hard edged shoot em out that saw a building full of Eurotrash terrorists (who in reality were just high tech bank robbers) take on […]

Live Free Or Die Hard The long-awaited fourth entry in the Die Hard series is like a breath of fresh air when compared to the current action fare despite some minor flaws, and while not quite acheiving the greatness of 1 and 2, is leagues better than the shitfest that was 3. The first 20 […]

Die Hard 5: A Good Day To Die Hard Every franchise sells out, sooner or later. Too many sequels, too many attempts to replicate the magic and success of a classic first movie. Case in point with The Die Hard Franchise. They indeed had a nice long run, with Bruce Willis capping asshole bad guys […]

Die Hard With A Vengeance After the rip roaring, smashing successes that were the first two Die Hard films, it was perhaps inevitable that the third film in the franchise was going to be a bit of a letdown, especially given two semi related events that managed to cast a bit of a shadow over […]

Die Screaming, Marianne Watching a Pete Walker movie is sometimes a good film tutorial of how NOT to get the job done, for even when you have the proper tools, you can still manage to muck things up.  Here, Walker gets one of his best leading ladies in Susan George (best remembered as Dustin Hoffman’s […]