In this fourth Carry On film, a flu epidemic means that new recruits who are inexperienced and possibly unsuitable join a police force- with hilarious consequences! The big revelation with Carry On Constable is that an actor would join the troupe who would very quickly become one of the most well-known actors associated with the …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 4- Carry On Constable (1960)
This second Carry On film is set at Haven Hospital and features an eclectic bunch of characters- the boxer, the bookish nuclear physicist, the bothersome colonel… The cast of favourites are all present and correct, with Hattie Jacques’ first turn as a matron. And how fantastic she is! Watch how she patrols the ward like …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 2- Carry On Nurse (1959)
The first Carry On film in the popular series concerns a new platoon of soldiers entering National Service. If Sergeant Grimshaw treats them nicely rather than with hostility, will they all turn out as perfect recruits? He has £50 riding on it. For a first film, Carry On Sergeant is very self-assured and very funny. …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 1- Carry On Sergeant (1958)
Fat Pizza is the movie spawned from the Aussie TV show Pizza. It follows a group of Lebanese-Australian pizza takeaway workers and their zany, sometimes surrealist adventures. There is no plot to speak of but instead a series of comedic scenarios. I first discovered the TV series when I was visiting Australia in 2003. I …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 23- Fat Pizza (2003)
Muriel Heslop lives in a bubble in the small town of Porpoise Spit. She idolises ABBA, doesn’t conform to the latest 90’s fashions and has no real friends. The girls she tries to hang out with are utterly toxic bitches. She goes on holiday to a resort that these mean girls are also holidaying in. …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 11- Muriel’s Wedding (1994)
A serial killer known as 'The Banana Killer' (bananas are found at the site of his murders) is terrorising a town in Southern California. He turns out to be akin to the missing link between man and an ape. He falls in love with a local young woman and resorts to kidnapping her when she …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 31- Schlock (1973)
Ramon the baby alligator gets flushed down the toilet. 12 years later Ramon is now living in the sewers where he has ingested hormones that have made him grow massively. He's also very hungry. Alligator is a fantastic horror film that also has a brilliant sense of dark humour. But this isn't one of those …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 7- Alligator (1980)
Once upon a time (the early 80's to be precise) when my family rented our first video recorder from Granada Home Video, you could rent tapes of trailers from the same shop. One tape had all of the trailers for Warner Bros video releases on it and included such gems as The Exorcist, The Shining …
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