TV Cream
Films: R is for…
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2.4KRadio Days
“Beware evildoers, wherever you are!” Everyone raves on about Zelig, but we prefer this slice of Woody waxing nostalgic over wireless wonders,...
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3.1K
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Firstest and mostest of the Indiana Jones films – and from a time before they were even called Indiana Jones films and...
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3.0K
Raising Arizona
Coen Brothers comedy rendered mostly-annoying by typically self-conscious ‘wry’ with and ‘irony’ etc. and of course the appalling Nicolas ‘how does that...
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3.0K
Raising The Wind
Aka, er, Roommates. But this slight music college tale has Sid, Kenny, Jim Dale and Liz Fraser (plus Esma ‘Flo’ Cannon!), mixed...
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2.5K
Raven, The
Delightful load of complete bollocks not so much based on the hoary old Poe poem as crapped onto it from a great...
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2.4K
Razorback
Gad-flaming-zooks. Yes, as featured on Moviedrome on 29th May 1988 (while BBC1 was showing a That’s Life holiday special and Everyman –...
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3.4K
Remember Me This Way
The first film made by GTO records, under the aegis of one Ron Inkpen, who would produce a couple of real stormers...
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4.0K4
Rentadick
This second John Cleese/Graham Chapman offering for David Frost’s Paradine Productions knocked its predecessor The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer’s satirical...
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3.3K
Replusion
Arthouse? Yeah, maybe, but lest we forget, this was a Compton Films production, under the aegis of the great Tony Tenser, who’d...
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2.4K
Return from Witch Mountain
Christopher Lee and Bette Davis (resembling EL Wisty and Beryl Reid respectively) take over from Ray Milland to go after supernatural kids...
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3.0K
Return of the Musketeers, The
Forever to be known, sadly, as ‘the film that killed Roy Kinnear’, Richard Lester’s belated third Muskefeature has none of the atmosphere...
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2.4K
Return of the World’s Greatest Detective, The
We had never actually seen this until a couple of years ago and we must confess to having had serious doubts about...
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2.7K
Revenge of Frankenstein, The
Second installment of Hammer’s Cushing-fronted Universal copyright-dodging franchise, with the good doctor eluding the death sentence meted out to him by angry...
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2.5K1
Revenge of the Pink Panther
“Special delivery! A beumb! Were you expecting one?” Final Sellers outing with a string of limp ‘funny costume’ set pieces and Lom,...
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3.8K3
Ring of Bright Water
Gentle tale of one man's psychologically questionable close tie with an otter set in the backdrop of a swoonsome Scottish village.
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2.3K
Rio Bravo
If you *must* watch a western, it might as well be a good ‘un. Tremendous frontier caper with John Wayne, Ward ‘Fargo’...
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6.0K3
Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer, The
1970, and voters face an unedifying choice between a tired old Labour government and a slightly prannyish Tory challenger in a political...
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3.5K
Rising Damp
Cocked-up beyond redemption film of the series. Say what you like about Porridge: The Movie, but at least that had Richard Beckinsale...
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2.7K
Rites Of Summer
The first word of that title’s a strong clue as to what to expect here. Mikey off of The Goonies and two...
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3.0K
Road Builder, The
Odd little Roald Dahl-penned horror with Patricia Neal falling for disturbed maniac Nicholas ‘Excalibur’ Clay, who has a penchant for raping women...
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2.8K
Road to Bali
Bob ‘rhyming slang’ Hope and Bing Crosby on the road again. In this sixth installment, we have a pair of divers and...
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2.3K
Road to Hong Kong, The
Belated final entry in Bing ‘n’ Bob’s diminishing returns series of screwball trips, this time with a more British cast list headed...
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2.3K
Road to Morocco
Bing, Bob and Dot (along with Anthony Quinn and Yvonne ‘Munsters’ DeCarlo) crack off with the third and best of their fourth-wall-breaking,...
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2.3K
Road to Rio
The fifth Roderoo focuses on two familiar-looking carnival musicians stowing away to Brazil, rescuing an equally familiar-looking hypnotised would-be female suicide along...
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2.4K
Road to Singapore
The first of the Hope-Crosby-Lamour laff-ins. All good fun, though we do prefer Morocco, not to mention the seldom-shown mid-period entries in...
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2.2K
Road to Utopia
Whevever Dame Telly of Vision deigns to screen on of Bing ‘n’ Bob’s screwball messaround masterclasses, phones depart hooks nationwide. The fourth...
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2.3K
Road to Zanzibar
In the second of these Roady wiseacreages, our two upstanding heroes are a human cannonball and octopus wrestler, fleeing an African carnival...
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4.3K7
Rockford Files, The
James Garner tackles his first case as the eponymous Jim Rockford in this TV movie also starring Lindsay Wagner and Bill ‘Will’...
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2.5K
Rocking Horse Winner, The
From a story by DH Lawrence, no less, this concerns a boy given a rocking horse who can then, whilst riding it,...
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3.5K5
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
“Mumsie! Another royalty cheque’s arrived!” Richard O’Brien continues to live off his one successful theatrical venture, despite everyone in the world both...
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2.7K
Rocky IV
The really dumb USA v. USSR instalment of the never-that-bright series, with Dolph Lundgren and, incongruously, James Brown as himself. We can...
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2.5K
Romancing the Stone
So Eddy Grant did the theme to this, The Front Line, and (if we’re going to stretch a point) Fred Harris’ Electric...
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3.5K3
Romeo and Juliet
Here you get a chance to relive that double-period English class when the big telly and Videostar were wheeled out for a...
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2.9K
Ruling Class, The
The film adaptation of Peter Barnes’s labyrinthine stage comedy set in a rambling country estate takes a sledgehammer to the British aristocracy...
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2.5K
Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming!, The
Will the migraine-inducing title sequence from Pablo ‘Bullitt’ Ferra merit an epilepsy warning? It bloody should. Still, make it past those intact,...
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2.6K1
Ruthless People
If we were the sort of TV guide that cared about the actual content of ’80s Hollywood films, we’d mention that this...
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