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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome *** (1985, Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Angelo Rossitto, Helen Buday, Rod Zuanick, Frank Thring) – Classic Movie Review 6,506

The 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is the lavish third part of director George Miller’s trilogy. in which Mel Gibson’s Max leads a revolt by children against villainous Aunty Entity (Tina Turner). The 1985 […]

Jan, 01

The Sundowners **** (1960, Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Peter Ustinov, Michael Anderson Jr, Dina Merrill, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 6165

Director Fred Zinnemann’s likeable, high, wide and handsome 1960 Australian adventure film stars Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr as an early 20th century Outback sheep herder/ drover and his wife. They argue about whether their nomadic Carmody […]

Oct, 31

1% ** (2017, Eddie Baroo, Ryan Corr, Aaron Fa’aoso, Matt Nable, Simone Kessell, Abbey Lee) – Movie Review 

Director Stephen McCallum’s punchy low-budget 2017 Australian crime thriller plays like a Sixties/ Seventies biker movie. It has a certain basic raw energy and revving dynamism on its side, but obviously it avoids anything like […]

Oct, 01

They’re a Weird Mob *** (1966, Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty, Alida Chelli, Ed Devereaux, Slim DeGrey, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 5508

Producer-director Michael Powell’s fairly enjoyable, easygoing and good-natured 1966 comedy movie of cultural misunderstandings starts off when an Italian immigrant Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari) arrives Down Under in Australia to take up a job as a […]

May, 27

The Dish ***½ (2000, Sam Neill, Billy Mitchell, Roz Hammond, Patrick Warburton) – Classic Movie Review 4921

‘Not so long ago, in a country quite far away… The Dish, Houston’s other problem.’ It is July 1969 and, while the world watches Neil Armstrong and the first Apollo landing on the Moon, the […]

Jan, 22

Captain Fury *** (1939, Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas, June Lang, John Carradine, George Zucco, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 4802

Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas, June Lang, John Carradine, George Zucco and Douglass Dumbrille are a likely bunch of quirky stars in this likeable 1939 movie, a bright and breezy period adventure yarn from […]

Dec, 21

The Overlanders **** (1946, Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 4671

Chips Rafferty stars as Dan McAlpine, a cattle boss who leads a group of Northern Australian cattlemen and their herds away from the threat of Japan’s hostile forces by conducting a herd of 1,000 cattle […]

Nov, 20

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