Category: Rics Reviews

The Driver Action movies are almost always noted for their excessive nature, that eternal tendency to throw everything and the kitchen sink into the equation. Certainly Walter Hill, a director who is renowned for a number of action classics, is every bit as guilty for overloading his films with over the top sequences as anybody, […]

Duck Soup In 1933, The Marx Brothers would come out with this, their fifth effort as a movie comedy team. Sadly, it would be the last ever film appearance for Zeppo who quit film acting entirely after this, becoming a talent agent along with a number of other pursuits, citing how he was tired of […]

Dumb And Dumber “That was so stupid it was almost funny.” A dismissive, yet positive appraisal given to many a goofball yet funny comedy over the years by many different people (most notably my dad), and it rightly sums up the appeal of a LOT of films in that genre, namely ones where a good […]

Dune Few literary works in history are as complex and multi layered as Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction opus Dune, an epic tale that not only covers the human race nearly 10,000 years from now, but also its evolution, having long since abandoned Earth to now inhabit a cluster of four planets all within the […]

Easy Money One of the reasons the legendary comedy star Rodney Dangerfield was in many ways so enigmatic was mainly due to the fact that he had such a limited career acting in films, not producing nearly the body of work as others of his era, that one wonders what could have been if he […]

Easy Rider It can be best often said that the ability of a simple movie to sum up an entire decade, or rather, an entire era within the confines of its running time can be considered the greatest of all cinematic achievements, and director Dennis Hopper certainly accomplished that with his 1969 Grand Masterpiece, a […]

Eat Pray Love Not so much a movie as it is a two and a half hour endurance test, this release from last year by the more lucky than talented creator of Glee based on a autobiographical book by flash in the pan author Elizabeth Gilbert displays a worldview so twisted that its very existence […]

Ed Wood There is no doubt that during his run as a filmmaker, one Edward D. Wood Jr. was without a doubt the WORST director in cinema history up to that time. Atrocious. A classic example of a so called “LA Weirdo” with big dreams and ambitions, but who was in reality an alcoholic, cross […]

Eddie And The Cruisers One of the most cherished and popular tropes of rock n roll mythology and lore (especially among older fans) is the concept of the revered and long dead rock star actually having faked his or her own demise, with said person now not only living in anonymity somewhere but also being […]

Eddie And The Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! Any fans of the original 1983 Eddie And The Cruisers knows that that film had a GREAT hook, exploited to its fullest: What if a legendary dead rock star had actually faked his demise and disappeared, and now possibly wanted to come back? For all its positives, the […]