Throughout the 1970s, the Star Trek television series created by Gene Roddenberry was kept alive in the form of endless repeats demanded by its fanatical fans, dubbed…
Browsing: Movies 1979
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
In the distant future, a beautiful Space Virgin (blonde Hustler centrefold Kari Klark) is apparently the last of the human species. Manufactured in a “protoplasmic…
Farrah Fawcett-Majors plays Ellie, a New York model who’s hired to pose as the wife of hotshot private investigator Jake Decker (Charles Grodin). Together, they…
The theft of a consignment of stainless steel sinks is planned with the intricacy of a diamond heist by a group of amiably feckless unemployed Glasgow…
That sun! That music! That being together and being young! Steve (Ray Winstone) learns in Borstal (a type of youth detention centre) that he is…
Successful Australian businesswoman Kate Davis (Chantal Contouri) is kidnapped by a cult of modern-day vampires and self-proclaimed supermen known as ‘The Hyma Brotherhood’. They have…
Brenda Davenport – a.k.a “Tilt” (Brooke Shields) – is a precocious 14-year-old pinball wizard and runaway. She hooks up with Neil Gallagher (Ken Marshall), an…
Tim Melville (Mel Gibson) is a 24-year-old builder’s labourer and part-time gardener described by his loving father as “not the full quid”. He cannot read…
Before directing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn (1982) and causing outrage in the US with his post-apocalyptic tele-feature The Day After (1983), novelist Nicholas Meyer directed…
Very occasionally a movie comes along that is so unique that it eludes conventional criticism. Such a movie is The Tin Drum, a German film which…
US Marine Corps Captain Daniel Nelson (a hopelessly miscast Oliver Reed) is a bumbling idiot of Jerry Lewis proportions who can’t handle liquor. He becomes…
A young man named Bobby (Bill Adler) leaves his small town and drives his custom van to Van Nuys Boulevard – in the San Fernando…
In a newly integrated Bronx neighbourhood in 1960s New York, Ritchie (Ken Wahl) leads the Italian American gang ‘The Wanderers’. He’s a stud and has…
“Let’s get down to it Boppers . . .” Hundreds of gangs from all of New York’s five boroughs show up for a summit at…
“Have you checked the children?” This spin on a popular urban legend became the film responsible for making a generation of teenagers afraid to answer…
While stationed in a small Lancashire town as they await D-Day, three American soldiers become involved in romances with local women. There are two plotlines…
Rod Turner (Ian McShane) is a washed-up drunken footballer trying to get his life back on track. Turner is signed by a Third Division team,…
A yacht is adrift in New York City harbour, getting in the way of the ferries and other boats, so a patrol boat is sent…
Fifteen years after the successful release of the classic 1964 film Zulu, a long-planned prequel finally made it to the cinemas. In 1879 South Africa,…