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Bliss **** (1985, Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8817

Director Ray Lawrence’s 1985 provocative Australian fantasy comedy drama Bliss is an Australian Film Institute Best Film/ Best Director/ Best Adapted Screenplay-winner about an adman who tries to shake himself to life again after the […]

Aug, 11

The Rescuers Down Under *** (1990, voices of Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy) – Classic Movie Review 8184

The 1990 cartoon animated adventure The Rescuers Down Under is the enjoyable Disney sequel to their 1977 hit The Rescuers, with the cartoon mice Bernard and Miss Bianca (again voiced by Bob Newhart and Eva […]

Mar, 01

Marine Raiders ** (1944, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 7383

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1944 RKO Radio Pictures release Marine Raiders is a minor but intriguing wartime action movie plus romantic drama, with the emphasis on the details of Second World War troop training. Pat O’Brien and […]

Aug, 01

My Brilliant Career **** (1979, Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Patricia Kennedy, Aileen Britton) – Classic Movie Review 7341

Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 Australian feminist drama My Brilliant Career stars Judy Davis, giving a commanding performance in her second film as Sybylla Melvyn, the fiercely independent, self-assured Aussie bush-farmer’s daughter who wants to take […]

Jul, 25

Rebel *** (1985, Matt Dillon, Debra Byrne, Bryan Brown) – Classic Movie Review 7309

Co-writer/ director Michael Jenkins’s 1985 Australian movie Rebel stars Matt Dillon as the eponymous American Marine sergeant Rebel, a traumatised American deserter from World War Two, who, while recuperating from battle, falls for married Aussie nightclub songbird […]

Jul, 19

Sister Kenny *** (1946, Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 7262

A well cast Rosalind Russell was Oscar nominated for her dedicated acting as Sister Elizabeth Kenny in director Dudley Nichols’s stirring 1946 biopic based on Mary Kenny’s own story And They Shall Walk (written with Martha […]

Jul, 07

The Cars That Ate Paris **** (1974, Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Kevin Miles) – Classic Movie Review 7214

Writer-director Peter Weir’s 1974 directorial calling card movie The Cars That Ate Paris is a tense, eerie and atmospheric tale of Australia’s Outback, where a far-flung small community makes its living causing car crashes and […]

Jun, 23

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