This Australian semi-documentary presented (most of) the letters of the alphabet and discussed sexual subjects beginning with the corresponding letter – eg: B for Birth,…
Browsing: Movies 1978
Plumbing seems an agreeable enough occupation for Sid South (Christopher Neil) whose job offers him ample opportunity to bed a variety of nubile girls. Apart…
Starting out as a two-minute sketch on Idle’s post-Monty Python comedy show, Rutland Weekend Television, The Rutles took on a life of their own when Saturday Night…
“This is Alan Freed . . . and this is rock’n’roll.” With these words, the young hearts of New York beat fast as the celebrated radio…
“Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps.” Rude and crude, rough and ready, sometimes revolting but…
Convicted killer Roger Sands (Frank Ashmore) studies the paranormal while he is incarcerated in the California State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, gains supernatural powers…
Few filmmakers have the guts (or the gall) to actually try to make a bad film. John De Bello was one of the bold few.…
The film begins in Paraguay, where a resourceful young American Jew, Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg), tracks down several Nazi war criminals living in exile and…
The Boys in Company C follows the lives of five naïve young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp through a tour in Vietnam that…
A first-rate, realistic film biography of Buddy Holly – the talented rockabilly composer-musician who introduced such 1950s hits as That’ll Be The Day and Peggy Sue. Lanky, toothsome…
Four groups of visitors stay at the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel and are forced to deal with problems ranging from a runaway daughter to which outfit…
This ingenious thriller takes a popular conspiracy theory – did the Americans really land on the Moon or did they fake it in a TV…
It was back to basics in more ways than one with this, the final film in the linear 20-year run of the original Carry On series. It’s…
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith deals with the plight of a half-caste aborigine, Jimmie Blacksmith – very movingly portrayed by non-actor Tommy Lewis. Set in central-western…
Selkirk is an “Approved School” where young miscreants are sent as a last resort. If they don’t mend their ways here they are sent “inside”…
When Nancy Greenly (Lois Chiles) suffers irreparable brain damage after a routine operation at Boston Memorial Hospital, her close friend, Dr Susan Wheeler (Geneviève Bujold),…
Coming Home is very much Jane Fonda’s project. She commissioned Nancy Dowd to write a story about the impact of the Vietnam War on people…
A small group of truckers defy the authorities and head out of the state to avoid a speed trap imposed by a mean sheriff. Soon…
The directing debut of Matthew Robbins, co-writer (with Hal Barwood) of Steven Spielberg’s The Sugarland Express, is a youth movie very much in the mould…
In this sequel to the top 1976 box office shocker The Omen, Damien (Jonathan Scott-Taylor) – the Antichrist predicted in the Book of Revelations, sired…
