Category: Rics Reviews

Back To School Rodney Dangerfield remains one of the oddest ducks in the history of American comedy.  A guy whose schtick was developed after a lifetime of failure and depression over seemingly never being able to make it in show business, so that when he finally “made it” using a plethora of funny one liners […]

Back To The Future This truly Immortal Classic, released in 1985 and almost instantly becoming one of the most beloved works in the history of cinema that still retains its enormous popularity today, works so well because in spite of the sci fi / time travel elements, has at its core a moving, touching, and […]

Back To The Future Part 2 Sequels are usually by definition inferior to their originals (with some notable exceptions), but manage to get themselves by at least attempting to recapture SOME of the magic and awe of their predecessors, usually with mixed results depending on certain elements like the passion of the filmmakers involved, the […]

Back To The Future Part 3 The Back To The Future Trilogy remains to this day one of the finest cinematic franchises ever conceived.  The first was an extraordinary one of a kind classic, never to be topped, that placed an emphasis on love of one’s family over the scientific paradoxes of time travel (with […]

Backdraft Used to be a time when the name “Ron Howard” being promoted as the director of a major movie would be a sort of curiosity piece for audiences who would come out to see if the beloved Opie (not to mention the immeasurably dorky and awkward teenage boy from American Graffiti and Happy Days) […]

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 […]

Bad Seed Killer child movies are generally the toughest nut to crack in the horror genre (although the formula might have been perfected in Pet Sematary) but the originator of the premise was this shocking (when it came out in 1956) portrayal of a sociopathic little girl (Patty McCormack, who overcame being a child star […]

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 […]