An intelligent, downbeat coming-of-age film set in a small country town in Australia in 1962. The 15-year-old protagonist Danny (Noah Taylor) suffers heartbreak when the…
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This thriller/romance is set in Indonesia (though filmed in the Philippines) in 1965, just before the fall of the Sukarno regime. Civil war is breaking…
Yellowbeard was the realisation of Graham Chapman’s long-standing desire to film a comic pirate romp in the style of Robert Newton’s celebrated Long John Silver. The…
Barbra Streisand spent fifteen years of her life trying to get Yentl on the screen. Every cynic in the film industry told her it could not be…
“Dr Pepper, please report to the diabetes ward”. Obviously inspired by Airplane!, this movie follows a group of interns at a large American hospital for a…
A chap called Yahoo Serious wrote, produced, directed and starred in this Australian spoof biography of Albert Einstein – a naive wild-haired Tasmanian scientist who…
In this version of the legend of Billy the Kid – set during an important frontier war – the young William H Bonney joins a…
The year is 1870, and young Sherlock Holmes (newcomer Nicholas Rowe) is at a London boarding school when he finds a new student has been…
What seems to be a teen sex comedy – the film started out as a sequel to Malibu High – becomes a violent vigilante movie…
An entertaining cross between Porky’s and Carrie which stars Scott Baio, alias Chachi from Happy Days, as Barney, a nerdy high-school senior who gets zapped…
Following the deaths of their wives in a car crash, doctors and twin brothers Oswald and Oliver Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon) channel their grief…
Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen) is a baffling psychological case for doctors at Manhattan Hospital in the early 1920s, when it is discovered that he can…
In spite of the fact that America had very little to do with the defeat of Germany in World War II, Hollywood persists in portraying…
Luis Valdez directed this film adaptation of his hit stage musical, which is loosely based on the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder trial that unfairly convicted…