14-year-old Alan Duckworth (John Albasiny) dreams of kissing classmate Ann (Abigail Cruttenden) but soon realises that life seldom lives up to one’s dreams. This nostalgic…
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The bawdy adventures of two Australian pilots working for Banana Airlines, a small low-rent South Pacific airline, as they cavort around the South Pacific. Paul (Robin…
Pacific Heights is another movie about yuppies in danger. This time, Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) and Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) co-purchase and restore a Victorian house…
The Pad is a touching story, set in the swinging sixties, of Bob Handman (British actor Brain Bedford), a shy and sensitive young man lost…
A gold prospector buys a wife from a Mormon and agrees to share her with his mining partner when she insists they all live together.…
Small-time con artists Jo Lake (the gorgeous Liz Fraser in an uncharacteristic straight acting role) and Mark Davies (Peter Reynolds) work a blackmail scam to…
When her nightclub singer boyfriend Vince Nichols (Dennis Morgan) won’t give up his gambling, Abby (Lucille Norman) joins vaudeville partners Carol (Virginia Mayo) and June…
Recently-qualified junior barrister Tony Stevens (Michael Craig) is annoyed when he finds his firm is taking on the boss’s niece, Frances Pilbright (Mary Peach). The…
A delectable Doris Day stars as the prettiest, smartest, female worker in a pyjama factory whose feminist ideas turn management vs. labour topsy-turvy, in the…
One of those kitsch 1960s Californian beach party movies, which began with Beach Party (1963). In this one, Tommy Kirk plays a Martian scout (“Go-Go”) sent to…
Renowned ladies man Joey Evans (Frank Sinatra) arrives in San Francisco looking for nightclub entertainment work and lands a job at The Barbary Coast Club.…
A group of college kids with raging hormones head to the desert resort of Palm Springs in California for the Easter weekend, looking for fun…
This made-for-television movie from London Weekend Television featured small-time private eye and failed family man Eddie Palmer (Ray Winstone), who ran the grandly-titled detective agency,…
Not to be confused with the 1987 Australian movie of the same name, this misfiring slasher/horror spoof is set in the town of It Had…
Not to be confused with the 1982 American movie of the same name, this Australian film – which owes a great debt to both John…
Set in the early 1930s in a small but fashionable seaport town called Esperanza (“Hope”) on “the Mediterranean coast of Spain,” where idle rich exiles…
Drug abuse movies can be hard to take, but this compelling drama has a superior screenplay (by Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne)…
The Baldwins are a suburban Los Angeles family, headed by the gruff, controlling dad, Harry (Ray Milland, who also directed the film), and his dutiful wife…
Newly-divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her 11-year-old daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart), tour a large, neglected Manhattan brownstone that formerly belonged to a reclusive, paranoid…
Panther is a riveting two hours of revisionism that’s fired up to show us what really went down when the Black Panther Party rolled out…