The term “China Syndrome” became an indelible part of our vocabulary as the effects of such a nuclear disaster became a reality during the 1970s…
Browsing: Movies 1979
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Astrologer David Galaxy (Alan Lake) has a reputation as a stud and enjoys a well-heeled life. But one day he is visited by Chief Inspector…
The film Dawn! may have been made on the assumption that Australians never lose interest in their sports champions as long as the myth of ill-fortune attends…
On the edge of our galaxy, a spectacular trinary supernova (three stars exploding at once) sends a stream of cosmic energy to Earth. It manifests…
This Australian made-for-television movie – produced in 1977 by Reg Grundy and aired on Channel Seven in June 1979 – opens “somewhere in England” with…
Named after the actual outback town in Australia where the story takes place, Dimboola revolves around British reporter Vivian Worcester-Jones (Max Gillies) who gets more…
Strongly committed to the ideals of a French right-wing alliance with links in high places all over the world, ex-soldier and nationalist Bert (Ian McShane)…
Retired cop Tucker Williams (comedian Rudy Ray Moore) becomes a celebrity DJ – the Disco Godfather – at the Blueberry Hill disco. All is well…
Before making King Of New York (1990) and Bad Lieutenant (1992), filmmaker Abel Ferrara made this low-budget black comedy/psychodrama about a struggling New York artist…
Robert Redford and Jane Fonda were well cast in Sydney Pollack’s The Electric Horseman – He as former rodeo champion Sonny Steele now reduced to advertising…
The question of whether or not three inmates made it successfully to the mainland after an ingenious breakout from Alcatraz prison (in San Francisco Bay)…
Roger Moore ambles in and out of a Teutonic accent as Major Otto Hecht, the Kommandant of a prison camp in Greece toward the end…
Clint Eastwood was warned by his associates not to make this picture, but he made it anyway, and his share of the profits was reputedly…
In mid-summer 1928, a representative of Shreveport Union Bank attempts to deliver an eviction notice to a rural Louisiana farmhouse belonging to the Monroe Family.…
A clever animated fable about the titular Baron who lives in a castle and delights in entertaining his friends with tall stories of derring-do. When the…
After Ginny La Rosa’s trucker husband, Jack LaRosa (Fred Willard), is wounded in a shootout with hijackers, she takes up trucking with the help of…
In the Northern Californian coastal town of Antonio Bay, tales are told of a century-old shipwreck that occurred in very dense fog and the prophesied…
This Australian made-for-TV movie revolves around surf shop proprietor Jimmy Flemming (Eric Oldfield) who believes his life is in danger when he receives anonymous letters…
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum (Michael O’Keefe) struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, Bull (Robert Duvall), an aggressively competitive,…
The 1960s stage musical Hair was rigorously anti-Vietnam, vigorously anti-authority and glorified free love, bisexuality, long hair, draft-card burning, LSD and body odour. It still played very…