Category: Rics Reviews

Sexy Beast It’s not really all that unprecedented for a given movie to have a bland, boring plot that’s been done many times before, but to still have it stand out almost due solely to the fact that one of the usual, basic characters in such a story actually turns out to be written and […]

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Is a train wreck entertaining? One would guess that the answer is subjective to say the least, at least when said train wreck is a cinematic effort to replicate the success of a film that in and of itself was nearly impossible to make further movies of its type, […]

Sharky’s Machine Even to this day, Burt Reynolds remains almost enigmatic at times to many when it comes to the overall worldview that he tried to project through his film career, a career where in the 1970s he reigned as the undisputed most popular movie star in the world. Perhaps sensing the creative power and […]

Shaun Of The Dead When George Romero set out to make the second of his legendary “Living Dead” zombie trilogy (Dawn), he succeeded in making a better film than the murky original by not only making an epic, blood and guts, gore filled horror movie, but he also achieved the not so mean feat of […]

Sherlock Holmes Outside of Count Dracula, perhaps no classic character has been portrayed onscreen more than Arthur Conan Doyle’s beyond brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, and certainly pop culture has ingrained a collective image of the character into our consciousness. Thus, Robert Downey Jr. should be commended for his gutsy decision to play Holmes as somewhat […]

Shining Long considered one of the benchmarks of the horror genre, Kubrick’s sole attempt at a scary movie is visually stunning to say the least, with the opening montage of shots over the Colorado Rockies (and the effective opening music), sweeping us into a world of fear like few other flicks. The biggest discernible flaw […]

Shocker Wes Craven was that rarest of things when it comes to directors in any genre, much less horror, in that he literally found himself being able to shape and mold the conventions of the genre itself in which he worked. He also would look at the work of others and seemed to have some […]

Shooter This story, adapted from the first of a series of books by Stephen Hunter, centers around a top military marksman named Bobby Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), who becomes caught up in an assassination attempt against the President where he is framed as the top suspect and has to go on the run. In some […]

Shot In The Dark After the original Pink Panther movie had resoundingly convinced everyone that a then unknown Peter Sellers could steal a movie from the likes of David Niven, Robert Wagner and Claudia Cardinale, the gears quickly shifted to making a sequel where Sellers would not be playing second banana to anyone and would […]

Showgirls Sometimes a movie comes along that gets thrashed by the critics like few others can imagine, wins a boatload of the dreaded Razzie Awards and then ultimately results in Hollywood essentially “punishing” those who were involved in making it while others involved make a point of distancing themselves away from it. But in those […]