Category: Rics Reviews

South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut The history of animated movies is a rather sentimental one, ranging from The Disney Classics to Pixar and several lower-level fare, meant to be an event for kids to spend time with their parents. However, when it comes to more mature, adult animated features, the limited spectrum is speckled […]

Southland Tales If ambition and scope were the sole criteria for what makes a great movie, then this 2006 release would undoubtedly make most critics’ lists for being amongst the top 10 best of all time. As it is, one must corral all that mighty potential into resembling something more coherent and understandable, but that […]

Spaceballs After having forever pushed the boundaries of good taste and political incorrectness for all time with his Immortal Comedy Masterpiece, Blazing Saddles, it became very clear that Mel Brooks had made a conscious decision to try to rein in his style quite a bit and almost play it safe from that point on with […]

Spartacus While many do love the cable TV series of the same name, one should definitely check out the 1960 classic that inspired it, directed by Stanley Kubrick (who reportedly had to make some concessions artistically) that nonetheless shows the Great Master (who arguably made the best films of any genre that he worked in) […]

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 […]