*contains spoilers Sorry, but Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) is a good movie. It is not only a good movie – it is a feel good movie! And, for its meagre budget, it is a masterpiece. I have been enjoying Teenagers from Outer Space for well over a decade now when I first discovered it…
*contains spoilers In Where Danger Lives, the couple are railroaded into marriage as the radio declares Faith had undergone “significant psychiatric treatment”. Here the film has a dig at Faith’s depression, her emotional “psychosis” and running off to marry her first husband. As it turns out, Faith did murder Rains and for all the echoes…
*contains spoilers Faith Domergue’s dark beauty shone for a short time in the mid-1950s. She became a star when most women were thought to be past their prime. She survived being a plaything of Howard Hughes and although never a fully-fledged star, or a great actress, she still made her mark in the movies. Faith…
*contains spoilers The second serpent film Venom (1981), not to be confused with the 2018 superhero movie, has a great cast of British actors as well as German Klaus Kinski (1926-91 heart attack) and American semi-legend Sterling Hayden (1916-86 prostate cancer) in his last film appearance. What is basically a siege movie, with a snake…
Read more The Cult of Actor Sam Chew Jr. in Rattlers (1976) Part Two
*contains spoilers Most people probably prefer the Anaconda (1997) movie and its sequels and there’s no denying the original is quite a good one, but I have three snake tales that I can watch over again and still get a thrill. The first is the film Rattlers (1976), which starts off with a couple of…
Read more The Cult of Actor Sam Chew Jr. in Rattlers (1976) Part One
*contains spoilers Phil Brock (15 August 1950-) was one of four brothers brought up in semi-rural Victoria – Hurstbridge outer Melbourne. His father was a bush mechanic and “a good one”. He didn’t have enough money to race as it was in the days before sponsorship… “Dad took us to various motor sports events reasonably…
Read more Stunt Driver Phil Brock on Mad Max, Frenchman’s Farm and brother Peter…
*contains spoilers Another movie, albeit with a computer on a smaller scale, is the forgotten Australian thriller Crosstalk (1982). Here an eavesdropping computer plays peeping tom to a murder in what is a kind of Rear Window with computers and one that was well ahead of its time. In Crosstalk, it is a privately produced…
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*contains spoilers When did the supercomputer come into being? In fact, has a supercomputer already come into being? Like the movie Eagle Eye (2008), is there already a information gathering supercomputer which can think and pick on individuals – perhaps even determine the outcome of elections in various countries through fudging numbers fed into it.…
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*contains spoilers Name: Sienna Age: 14 Occupation: High School StudentFavourite Movie: My Girl (1991)Starring: Anna Chlumsky, Macauley Culkin, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Ackroyd First Saw It: With her grandmother on DVD one night on the couch aged ten or eleven. Plot: A coming of age story of a young girl living in suburban Pensylvania…
Josephine (previously John) Emery (19 February 1947-) is one of a group of filmmakers who was at the heart of the film industry in South Australia when it began to thrive in the late 70s and into the 1980s. She wrote a script for what would become Phil Noyce’s first feature Backroads (1977). She followed…
Read more Screenwriter Josephine Emery on Strangers, Craig Lahiff, Scott Hicks and more
