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Bootmen ***½ (2000, Adam Garcia, Sophie Lee, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 4829

Adam Garcia stars as Sean, a young man who decides to his rewrite his life’s destiny by starting a tap dance group to escape working in the local Australian steel mill for the rest of […]

Dec, 31

A Few Best Men **½ (2011, Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, Kevin Bishop, Tim Draxl, Laura Brent, Olivia Newton-John, Rebel Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 4384

Xavier Samuel stars as David who meets Oz gal Mia (Laura Brent) and they enjoy a vacation romance. After a week, David proposes marriage to Mia, returns to England and then travels to Australia with his three best men Tom, Graham and […]

Sep, 19

Frauds *** (1993, Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Josephine Byrnes) – Classic Movie Review 3041

Writer-director Stephan Elliott’s 1993 Avengers-style fantasy comedy crime thriller stars a slightly struggling Phil Collins as Roland Copping, a sadistic insurance investigator who gets his kicks from manipulating people’s lives with outrageous games and gimmicks. He […]

Nov, 07

Paper Planes *** (2014, Ed Oxenbould, Sam Worthington, Julian Dennison, David Wenham, Terry Norris, Deborah Mailman) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Robert Connolly’s Aussie children’s film is sweet, charming, likeable, touching – and just plain darned nice. That’s a hard trick to pull off these days, and so is its story about a young Australian boy’s passion for flight […]

Oct, 22

The Boys * (1998, David Wenham, Toni Collette) – Classic Movie Review 1491

Debut director Rowan Woods’s 1998 release is a very extreme, slow-moving and repulsive Australian film about a psychopathically violent crook released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. He comes home to a Sydney household […]

Jul, 29

Among Giants *** (1998, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths, James Thornton, Lennie James, Andy Serkis) – Classic Movie Review 1284

Director Sam Miller’s 1998 film is a likeable, moving and highly charged love story based around the strange lives and dangerous passions of a group of pylon painters on the Yorkshire moors. Pete Postlethwaite plays […]

Jun, 02

Gallipoli **** (1981, Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 420

Director Peter Weir’s brilliantly realised, frighteningly realistic 1981 anti-war movie, which packs a gut-wrenching punch to the heart and brain, is powerful and moving in the best traditions of great Aussie film-making. Mel Gibson and […]

Nov, 18

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