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, it’s Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) and Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) who co-purchase and restore a…
The Pad is a touching story, set in the swinging sixties, of Bob Handman (Brain Bedford), a shy and sensitive young man lost in his…
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…
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 sent to Earth…
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 1982 American movie of the same name, this Australian film – which owes a great debt to both John…
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…
Ryan O’Neal plays Moses “Moze” Pray, a bible-selling conman in depression-era Kansas, who falls in with Addie, a sassy, cigarette-smoking nine-year-old girl (O’Neal’s real-life daughter,…
11-year-old London schoolgirl Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) is suffering from glandular fever at home. Bored and lonely, she draws an imaginary house – and is…
This unrelenting film was made by Franklin J Schaffner from Henri Charrière’s autobiographical account of life in (and escape from) the penal colony on Devil’s…
Paradise Alley was written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, who also played the starring role in this entertaining account of three Italian-American brothers whose sole purpose…
After striking box office gold with the massive hit Blue Hawaii (1961), Elvis Presley returned for more fun in the 50th state, with the combination of sun,…