Following the success of Smokey And The Bandit (1977), Burt Reynolds was, for a short time, the world’s leading box-office star. Here he once again…
Browsing: Movies 1978
This still-notorious film now seems tame in the gore and nudity departments, but its violence against women is still outrageous. Jennifer Hill (Camille Keaton, the…
I Wanna Hold Your Hand is not a movie about The Beatles. It’s a film about the fans and the frenzy the Fab Four caused…
This excellent remake of the 1956 classic – in fact, arguably one of the greatest remakes of all time – was directed by Phillip Kaufman…
Three years after those infamous shark attacks, another great white swims into police chief Brody’s Amity resort town in this shameless sequel that’s a pale…
Derek Jarman’s eulogy to punk is very much a product of the art school spirit of the time: incredibly pretentious and never dull. In the…
The opening credits show Kiss performing their mega-hit Rock and Roll All Nite at Southern California’s Magic Mountain amusement park. The park employs a brilliant inventor, Abner Devereaux…
This record of The Band’s last concert – after sixteen years on the road – was shot on Thanksgiving Day 1976 at Bill Graham’s Winterland…
It’s 1947 and the war is over. Gordon Laid (Robin Askwith), an innocent demobbed soldier, meets glamorous Maxine Lupercal (70s sex icon Fiona Richmond), a…
Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking which blurs the…
Two middle-class Australians – Peter (John Hargreaves) and his wife Marcia (Briony Behets) – drive out of the city for a long weekend’s camping by…
Stanley Kubrick, John Boorman and Walt Disney had all taken a run at making a movie of Lord of the Rings and had then backed…
Failing magician Charles “Corky” Withers (Anthony Hopkins) suddenly hits the big time as a ventriloquist with a vulgar but outrageously funny dummy called Fats. The…
Set in a parallel universe in which Shaw Taylor reads the news, Richard Burton plays John Morlar – “the man with the power to create…
The fat Turkish warden in Midnight Express doesn’t speak much English . . . but he doesn’t need to. He sweats a lot and grunts while he…
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Bruce Beresford and starring a cast of fine Australian actors, Money Movers is a fast-moving, ultra-violent tale of armed robbery. A counting-house…
Set in Australia in the late 1940s, before the coming of television, Newsfront opens with a spectacular montage of newsreel footage which establishes a rivalry between two…
Sent to the Carpathian mountains to secure a real estate deal, Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) persuades Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) to buy a house in…
Paradise Alley was written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, who also played the starring role in this entertaining account of three Italian-American brothers whose sole purpose…
“He’s In A Coma . . . Yet He Can Kill” promised the tagline for the 1978 Australian film Patrick, helpfully establishing both the film’s…