Category: Rics Reviews

Spawn Superhero films are supposed to be epic and yes, fun, but sadly this film has much of the latter and little of the former. The fictional world it creates is a fascinating parallel to our own, even post 9/11, but not enough expansion is given to it to draw the viewer in. The cast […]

Species The pain and isolation of being superior on an evolutionary scale is something that’s rarely explored properly in the sci-fi genre, but this 1995 release (when it’s not trying to rip off Ridley Scott’s Alien, complete with an H.R. Giger designed creature) does a fairly nice job of that, telling the story of Sil […]

Speed 1994 was kind of a phantom zone era in some ways, the bridge between the fun loving 80s and the cell phone obsessed, internet dominated world which we live in today, with several aspects of each of these two realms either still or already in play. One thing for sure about the 80s though, […]

Spider-Man Right off the bat, you know the filmmakers have done something right when you hear the confident opening chords of Danny Elfman’s theme music over the credits. The man who laid down the cards for Burton’s Batman films once again gets the job done with a music score both epic and exciting. As director, […]

Spiderman 2: Director’s Cut Up until the recent release of The Dark Knight this was widely considered one of the best sequels and the best comic book movie ever made. Looking back, it’s easy to see why: as with Dark Knight, this film manages to depict the absolute living hell of being a superhero and […]

Spiderman 3 With all the hate directed towards the third film in the series, it’s interesting to step back and take a good hard look at this, and truthfully, it’s really not as bad as the worst of the comic book film genre. Things start off looking as if they will be interesting, with the […]

Spies Like Us The so called “Cold War” of the 1980s was a strange time to live in, as even though our people and culture were always vibrant and full of life, all of us actually knowingly and constantly lived under the perceived threat of a possible all out nuclear holocaust due to the never […]

Splash Romantic comedies today have basically devolved into badly written, cutesy, unfunny tripe with lame supporting casts and a general who gives a crap attitude among cast and crew, which makes this viewer hearken back to 1984 when one of the first major hits of the genre was released, complete with a smartly written (Oscar […]

Spy Who Loved Me By the time we get to the tenth installment of the James Bond franchise, certain elements were sadly starting to repeat themselves and it showed, despite the insistence of many fans that this is the best of the series. Lewis Gilbert was brought back here as director, and as such with […]

Stand By Me Very, very few films have captured with such accuracy the experience of what it’s like to be a 12 year old boy on the cusp of his teenage years, partly because boys at that age probably have the most intense, fevered sexual fantasies imaginable with the onset of puberty, and also perhaps […]