When Aussie movie The Odd Angry Shot was released in 1979, it came in for a good deal of misdirected critical flak because it wasn’t a…
Browsing: Movies 1979
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Anthropologist Jill Cowper (Judy Morris) is writing her thesis for her Master’s at home in a University campus apartment complex in Adelaide. One day -…
This movie-length spinoff from the popular British television series of the same name finds long-time Slade Prison inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker) ordered by…
Director Franc Roddam conceived Quadrophenia as “a film about young people who had some freedom but no responsibilities”. He need only have added “drugs, parkas and scooters”…
London DJ Robert (David Beames) is driving from London to Bristol in a battered old Rover – after popping to the local barber shop for…
Saturday Night Live comedian Albert Brooks makes his directorial debut, playing himself as a narcissistic filmmaker who somehow persuades a Hollywood producer and a Boulder,…
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School is a musical comedy – a genre that all but died out in the 1960s. However, a soundtrack featuring The Ramones,…
Rocky II is better than Rocky (1976) because the boring character exposition has already been worked out and now we can sit back and enjoy the fully developed…
Poor little rich girl Terry Barkley (Linda Blair) has a big house, a fancy car, parents who don’t pay attention to her, and a scholarship…
The story of a rock star’s rise to fame and eventual self-destruction through whiskey and dirty hypodermic needles is nothing new, but Bette Midler (in…
Ben Mears (David Soul of Starsky & Hutch fame) is a writer who has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot in New England (abbreviated by…
Billiard balls in a sock, gang rape in a greenhouse, teenage suicide . . . it’s all here in Alan Clarke’s brutal look at life…
The Secret Policeman’s Ball was a 100-minute film featuring the highlights of the third Amnesty International charity concert staged over four consecutive nights (27 -…
A Sense of Freedom was based on the autobiography of Glasgow gangster Jimmy Boyle, a brutal gangster who was reputed to be Scotland’s most violent…
Cantankerous Dan Wicklow – “Old Saltie” to his friends – and his cronies in the local Shillingbury brass band resist the attempts by young Peter…
Stan (Greg Bradford, who did nothing before or after this movie) is a street skater who visits the roller disco with his sister Susan (Maureen…
Heinrich Haussner (Peter Cushing) is an ex-Nazi general and the leader of a right-wing German political party called N.E.I.N. Haussner discovers that an illiterate young…
This made-for-television film from NBC was a candid portrait of a teenage romance starring Denise Miller (previously seen in Barney Miller, Fish and Makin’ It) and…
This British production (originally titled Outer Touch but released in the US as Spaced Out) featured a trio of gorgeous female aliens – engineer Partha…
The NASA spaceship Stardust lands in Camelot in 508 AD by mistake in this Disney adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.…