A group of alternative types share a house in Melbourne in 1978. There’s no real plot as it’s hoped that the characters are interesting enough to hold your interest for an hour and a half. Not even the mentions of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, The Boys Next Door (Nick Cave's first band) and Suicide can …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 25- Dogs In Space (1986)
A gang who are nifty on BMX bikes inadvertently find the walkie talkies of a gang who are planning a heist. The gang target the kids. How did Brian Trenchard-Smith follow up his Ozploitation masterpiece, Turkey Shoot? By making a family film revolving around one of the biggest 80’s trends, naturally. BMX Bandits has aged …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 24- BMX Bandits (1983)
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)
Doug works in a factory job that he hates whilst braving the cold in a city he hates- Melbourne. He dreams of moving to Queensland (hence the title). Not a lot happens in this TV movie but I still enjoyed it as a time capsule of mid-70’s Oz. It also holds the distinction of an …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 22- Queensland Dreaming (1976)
A group of actors meet regularly at a coffee shop and talk about auditions, affairs of the heart and life in general. Cappuccino is strange as it wants Australia to seem like big city America. It’s all taxi cabs, saxophones on the soundtrack and a glossy, polished veneer. Unfortunately, the actual material doesn’t live up …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 21- Cappuccino (1989)
Samantha has left a youth detention centre and is trying to go straight by getting her own flat and forging a career as a model. But even though she's doing well, she still feels unfulfilled and finds life on the outside very hard indeed. Hard Knocks is such an interesting slice of life. It was …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 20- Hard Knocks (1980)
A group of ex-hippies reunite. They go to the old house they used to live together in which is due to be demolished. But there’s a more sinister reason why they go back- one of their housemates killed himself and rather than going to the hippie-hating cops, they bury him in the basement. They’re going …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 19- Natural Causes (1985)
15 year old Sarah is deaf. This means that she feels isolated from her peers, family and everyone in the outside world. She has plenty of arguments with her family and comes across as a moody teen. She’s fallen foul of the in-crowd of mean girls at school. But what happens when the hottest jock …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 18- The Still Point (1986)
A hitchhiker is murdered. The killer takes her body to his wheelbound brothers house and plans on disposing of the body. I knew nothing about End Play. I then decided to investigate when I saw that it was on YouTube. Every now and then I strike lucky by doing this. And in this instance I …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 17- End Play (1976)
In 2001, a British couple, Joanne Lees and Peter Falconio are travelling across Australia in a camper van. One night, they are stopped by another driver who turns out to be a cold-blooded killer. He shackles Joanne and throws her into the back of his van. She hears a gunshot but shortly after this manages …
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