During the Second World War, American Pilot David Halloran (Harrison Ford), who is stationed in England, meets young British nurse Margaret Sellinger (Lesley-Anne Down) during…
Browsing: Movies 1979
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
George C Scott plays Christian fundamentalist Jake Van Dorn from Grand Rapids, Michigan, who is trying to find his runaway daughter Kristen (Ilah Davis) in…
Mike Beresford (James Aubrey) is a successful 28-year-old lyricist for one of the big bands of the moment, Bad Accident (featuring Mick Jagger’s wholly untalented…
Adopting behaviour patterns reminiscent of Jerry Lewis in his heyday, comedian Steve Martin bulldozed his way through The Jerk, an uneven comedy whose hit-and-miss approach to…
Kramer vs. Kramer is about marriage, divorce, child custody, the changing sex roles in a confused society, and the complexities of love. It’s a fine film…
The tale of three 17-year-old boys – Benji (Yiftach Katzur), Bobby (Jonathan Segal) and Hughie (Zacki Noy) – desperately trying to reach manhood in the…
The Monty Python team are synonymous with dark, subversive humour that defies comparison to anything else. Although often attempted, no one since this legendary British…
This 1979 animated made-for-television movie was a UK/US co-production based on the 1950 novel by C. S. Lewis. Four English children – Lucy, Susan, Edmund…
Robert Kaufman’s Love At First Bite is an uneven but frequently very funny tale of Count Dracula relocating to contemporary New York with his psychotic henchman…
Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) is an Australian policeman of the not-too-distant future who drives the last of the MFP (Main Force Patrol) V8 Interceptors, wears…
The thing about New York that always defeats and trivialises attempts to analyse it is its elusive quality. It’s a city that becomes whatever it…
This amiable Canadian-produced comedy featured Bill Murray as Tripper Harrison, a counsellor-in-training at second-rate Camp North Star whipping a pack of stereotypes into shape. Most…
A five-mile-wide chunk of the asteroid Orpheus is on a 30,000-mile-per-hour collision course with Earth and NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite,…
Middle-aged construction worker Donald (stand-up comedian Jackie Vernon in his final movie role) is going hungry because his frumpy stout wife, May (Claire Ginsberg), has…
The eleventh Bond movie sees our hero take to outer space in an action-packed 007 adventure that also takes him to Venice and Rio de…
More American Graffiti takes the same characters from 1973’s American Graffiti (the movie which looked affectionately at the pre-turbulent time of 1962) through the era…
Jim Henson’s beloved, zany puppets made their feature film debut in this entertaining adventure relating Kermit the Frog’s inspirational journey from Georgia swamp tadpole to…
Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer) is on the trail of Jack the Ripper. A Masonic conspiracy is at the centre of things. The head of the…
This supposed “British version of Saturday Night Fever” sticks to the Grease formula by casting an actor (Gerry Sundquist) and a singer (Nigerian-born Patti Boulaye) to…
Australian import My Brilliant Career is a movie produced, directed, scripted, and designed by women, based on a novel written by a 16-year-old girl in the Australian…