Category: Rics Reviews

Backtrack Nobody in the history of Hollywood had a more eclectic career than one Dennis Hopper. A guy whom one day would be co starring in a major Hollywood blockbuster (usually as the main villain) and the next day would turn up in an out of left field low budget production on an almost random […]

Bad Dreams We all remember how The Golden Age Of Horror in the 80s with their various lucrative franchises and iconic villains in many ways defined what made the genre so entertaining at the time, but what was also interesting was the trend of one shot, “one off” horror movies that nonetheless were MARKETED at […]

Badder Santa A film that will easily go down as one of the most cynical and mean-spirited Christmas movies ever will also go down as one of the funniest.  Billy Bob Thornton brings the right touch of bitterness and pathos to the role of Willie, an ex-con who only works 30 days out of the […]

Barry Lyndon The career of Stanley Kubrick was as such that even though he only directed 13 feature films in his lifetime, every single one of them is considered to be a classic in one way or another by most people.  Yet, there is always some debate about just which one of his films (especially […]

Basic Mystery thrillers go all the way back to the era of Hitchcock and beyond while the art of having plot twists and turns that throw the audience for a loop is something which we see in everything from The Usual Suspects to the collected works of M. Night Shyamalan, but one thing that usually […]

Basic Instinct It’s hard to believe that the genre of erotic thriller is now almost considered a lost cinematic art form of the 1990s.  Featuring lurid stories consisting of deceitful women, betrayal, and lots and lots of sex, these films became a never ending staple on late night pay cable during that decade (practically leading […]

Basket Case Director Frank Henenlotter’s tribute to the low-budget grindhouse flicks of the 60s and 70s (dedicated to H.G. Lewis himself) is in and of itself one of the most gruesome and disturbing films of the actual genre it homages.  The story of a young man who comes to New York City carrying a basket […]

Batman Tim Burton’s 1989 extravaganza of an adaptation (the first major comic book movie since the Donner Supermans) might surprise some to know that there was actually some legit controversy at the time of release due to its dark tone and violence, when in actuality it comes across today as almost the perfect kid’s movie, […]

Batman Begins In terms of starting the tradition of doing fully drawn out origin stories for popular comic book superheroes, Christopher Nolan faced quite a few challenges with this 2005 release in order to mostly make it work, amongst them getting carried away above and beyond when telling a drawn out, almost minutely detailed by […]

Batman Returns Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman was a long overdue shot in the arm for the Hollywood Comic Book Film (coming as it did after the Reeve Superman Series had long since played itself out), galvanizing the industry to slowly but surely get to the point where such movies are now cranked out with startling […]