Brian De Palma’s follow-up to Carrie (1976) keeps the telekinetic kid but swaps tampons and girl power for a psy-spy caper. CIA agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas)…
Browsing: Movies 1978
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Set in 1964, in the early days of America’s involvement in Vietnam before massive combat troops were introduced, Major Asa Barker (Burt Lancaster) commands a…
This is the second in a series of made-for-television films by the Australian Channel Nine network in collaboration with Film Australia and the South Australian…
It’s easy to sneer at Grease and dismiss it as a relic of the ’70s like Space Dust and The Bay City Rollers. But while it may recall…
“It’s Halloween. I guess everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” John Carpenter’s low-budget classic wrings every possible chill out of its story of a psychopath…
When the Heavenly Authorities decide that Joe Pendleton’s life as a pro football quarterback for the LA Rams was ended prematurely he finds himself sent…
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…
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…
Why would anyone make a sequel to the boring, artless It’s Alive? Try a gross of more than S6 million. This movie is, however, not…
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…
A mentally disturbed nun develops some nasty habits (sorry!) in this cult horror tale. Suffering from a brain disorder, morphine-addicted Sister Gertrude (an over-the-hill Anita…
A coach load of happy schoolgirls drives through the peaceful Lake District countryside, the sound of their singing echoing around them. Up on the hillside,…
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 camping by…