Real Genius So called 80s movies are great to so many simply because their appeal is almost indefinable although it could just be the general lack of “political correctness”, a known relaxing of the rules of the time when it came to humor and content that in and of itself reflected the more relaxed social […]
ReAnimator Horror movies in the 80s was a grand time, as we saw one classic film (and franchise) after another, with the irony being that many of these “classics” of the era were actually quite derivative of prior classics that had come before them, yet still had enough squeamish verve and insanity to satisfy audiences […]
Rebel Without A Cause Thought of by many for being a film where all three of its lead actors, James Dean (car accident), Natalie Wood (drowning), and Sal Mineo (stabbed to death) came to tragic early ends, Nicholas Ray’s most famous work marked new territory for truly examining the ins and outs of teen culture […]
Red Dawn Released in 1984 at the height of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War, this film by conservative writer / director John Milius certainly depicted the worst case paranoia nightmare felt by Americans at the time: That Russian forces (combined with Cubans and Nicaraguans) would launch a ground invasion of the United States, aided by strategic […]
Red Heat Action movies with a pseudo political vibe are actually pretty rare, moreso when they mix in a healthy dose of comedy as well, but in 1988 Walter Hill managed to make one of the better and more well regarded ones with this entry that in many ways recycled direct elements from his earlier […]
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Many people have tried to replicate the same formula so they can try and recreate the magic of The James Bond Franchise into their own “superspy” type of character. Steven Spielberg (who in the 1970s campaigned to be in the director’s chair for a legitimate Bond movie) has openly admitted […]
Repo Man The punk mentality might be one of the hardest things to capture within the framework of a feature film. Oh, you can have punk rock music on the soundtrack, you can depict punk characters with mohawks and shit running around causing trouble, but the actual, pure nilhilism that comes with the entire movement […]
Repossessed One subgenre of comedy that has completely gone south in recent years is of course the spoof movie, that which mocks a certain movie or type of movie with allegedly hilarious results. Now of course those films are little more than bad, unappealing actors mugging for a silent (and empty) theatre, but back in […]
Requiem For A Dream In many ways, Darren Aronofsky’s much praised 2000 film is the most potent anti-drug work ever made, showing how quickly and how easily heavy drug use and addiction can turn you into a rock bottom loser with no chance of climbing back up. The story depicts the spiritual and physical downfalls […]