Horror movies encouraging audiences to sympathise with the monster are nothing new, but that paradox has rarely been more intelligently explored than in Romero’s gritty…
Browsing: Movies 1976
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This 1976 movie dramatises the epic air and sea battle in June 1942 that changed the course of the war against Japan when a Japanese…
In 1880s Montana, wealthy, egomaniacal land baron David Braxton (John McLiam) is determined to rid the territory of cattle rustlers and horse thieves. Taking the…
This strange London-set musical reunited Duffer director Joseph Despins and writer William Dumaresq with composer Galt MacDermot. Set in 1975, the film explored the problems…
The privately-run F&B Ambulance Service is a ragtag company in Los Angeles owned by the cantankerous and loud-mouthed Harry Fishbine (Allen Garfield). On his staff…
“You are cordially invited to dinner and a murder” – so read the invitation sent to five world-famous detectives by Lionel Twain (Truman Capote), an…
After being raped by a neighbouring farm boy, Kentucky teenager Jamie (Monica Gayle in her major film debut) escapes from her religious father (who believes…
The nuns of a convent show a penchant for dirty tricks and thoroughly bad behaviour when a contest for the top job at their Philadelphia…
Ex-television writer Paddy Chayefsky turned on his old medium with a vengeance in this ferocious satire about a raving mad anchorman who becomes enormously popular.…
In the mould of American Graffiti, Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a nostalgia flashback to one of those special times and places – in this case,…
Rudi Petrovyan (Lewis Fiander), a Russian ballet star, decides to defect to the West in this follow-up to Not Now Darling (1973). So many complications and…
Keith (Roger Sloman) and Candice Marie (Alison Steadman) are the green couple from hell who embark on an odyssey of lecture and conceit at a…
High melodrama, creeping insanity and barely contained delirium abound in this dizzying tribute to the high-tension thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock from director Brian De Palma,…
Emerging amid the vogue for theological shockers after The Exorcist (1973), The Omen arguably threatened to beat it at its own game. Sired by a jackal and…
Clint Eastwood took over the direction of The Outlaw Josey Wales from its co-scenarist Philip Kaufman when the two men fell out over the character of Josey…
An Australian attempt to rework The Wizard of Oz for a mid-1970s youth audience. Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) is a sixteen-year-old groupie riding with a local rock…
It is St. Valentine’s Day in Australia, the year is 1900, and a party of schoolgirls from an exclusive finishing school are giddily embarking on a…
On the verge of release from a psychiatric hospital after years of treatment, former Chief Inspector Dreyfus is driven to an instant relapse by a…
The first British feature film made by a black director (Horace Ové), Pressure, was produced for the BBC in 1974 and premiered at the 1975 London…
A female film crew journeys to the jungle Island of Lazanga (“where they do the konga”) where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love…