Gregori and Sergei were just a couple of brothers in the Soviet special forces on a mission to take down a Spanish nerve gas factory! Aside from the fact that Soviet special forces guys go on some strange missions, they run into the same sorts of problems our own movie special forces guys sometimes run into. read more
Roxie Hart (1942)
As most stories involving women named Roxie do, this one begins in a bar where a seasoned reporter starts to tell the tale of the greatest story of them all, back in the “bad old days” of Coolidge, Capone, the Teapot Dome, and a bunch of other things you slept through in history class.[...]
Roughly Speaking (1945)
Any doubt you may have had that you were in for one of those multi-generational epics about some woman who was either tough as nails and persevered through years of hardship or how she became tough as nails as a result of said hardship is laid to rest as soon as you get a gander [...][...]
Robin Hood (1973)
Country music legend Roger Miller provides the voice (or “pipes” as we say in the Nashville music biz) for the narrator, Alan-A-Dale, the wandering minstrel who torments everyone with really obnoxious hit songs like “Oo-de-lally” when he isn’t giving us the “on th[...]
Revolver (1973)
This DVD from Blue Underground finally answers that ages-old question of the cinema, “did Oliver Reed really eat light bulbs after trying to out drink Fabio Testi and failing?”[...]
Revenge of the Ninja (1983)
Early on in this movie I was thinking that this Sho Kosugi guy wasn’t much of an actor. With a bad haircut and a stupefied look on his face whenever he was required to grunt out admittedly dreadful dialogue, Sho seemed to be about as suited for the silver screen as his tall, beefy, co-star, [.[...]
Reunion in France (1942)
In wartime, you have to pull out all the stops. The conventional wisdom has to be discarded in an effort to surprise the enemy and catch him napping. You have to be able to think outside the box and come up with that one-two punch they’ll never see coming. In World War II, Hollywood eagerly [.[...]