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A Town Like Alice
Helen Morse, Bryan Brown
Starz / Anchor Bay, 1997
4 Different Home Video Releases of this Film Read Before You Buy!
+ A Town Like Alice - Simply Fabulous
+ An utter shame that this movie is not available on DVD!
+ A Classic
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Trevor Barrie, June Marie Bennett
MGM (Video & DVD), 2000
SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THANG.
+ Frilly, but not extra so
+ Always loved this movie
+ Camp & Crazy Cross-Dressing Road Trip to Laughter
+ The Adventures of Priscilla Queen if the Desert
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Gallipoli
Mel Gibson, Mark Lee
Paramount Pictures, 1999
Idealism and youth destroyed by war
+ More powerful than ever.
+ About mates, patriotic naivete and one of the most senseless battles in a war made up of senseless battles
+ Excellent Film About A Tragic Epsiode in History
+ monument to incompetence
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Picnic at Hanging Rock - Criterion Collection
Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert
Criterion, 1998
My Favorite Scary Movie of All-Time
+ Another meditative outpouring of emotion from Weir
+ A Haunting Period Mystery
+ A Flawed Gem
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Young Einstein
Michael Blaxland, Jonathan Coleman
Warner Home Video, 1992
Classic comedy from my childhood
+ Ozzie Einstein
+ Great Little Film Pity No Extras
+ Still good after all these years
+ Strange, quirky, and funny
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Crocodile Dundee
Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski
Paramount, 2001
Time For A Reappraisal?
+ Likable Paul Hogan and lovely Linda Kozlowski in a FUN adventure
+ ~A blast from the Past~
+ Good day mate!
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The Road Warrior
Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence
Warner Home Video, 1997
Great blu-ray transfer
+ Good movie, Grainy on Blu-ray
+ The Blu Warrior!!! A visual treat!!! Incredible stuntwork!!!
+ A movie worth revisiting! HD transfer very good
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Romper Stomper (Special Edition)
Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock
20th Century Fox, 2000
be careful which version you buy
+ Savage and unjustified; a film that targets the senseless and exposes their sickness...
This is an amazing movie of course, a must-see for any Russell Crowe fan, or anyone who loves independent film (the studio is listed as 20th Century Fox only because they bought the rights to it after the fact). You must be VERY careful however not to get the censored version- most of the earlier ...
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The Last Wave - Criterion Collection
Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett
Criterion, 2001
"The Last Wave" - a thought-provoking mystery
+ Homeowner's Insurance Won't Cover This
+ metaphysics on celluloid
+ Myth and mystery very thought provoking
+ The Last Wave
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Muriel's Wedding
Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths
Miramax, 1999
Friends in sickness and in health
+ Muriel's Wedding
+ Simply, Superb !
+ This movie is better than an ABBA song...
+ If you like Mamma Mia! it's time to rediscover Muriel
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Quigley Down Under
Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo
MGM (Video & DVD), 2001
Just Call Me Roy
+ Tom Selleck at his best.
+ Great Movie
+ Best Western
+ A classic western - topsy turvey
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Breaker Morant
Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson
Fox Lorber, 1997
Look no further for the finest war movie ever made
+ Lessons from History
+ Precision English Acting!
+ Realistic and marvellously directed
+ Breaker Morant
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Don's Party
Ray Barrett, Clare Binney
Fox Lorber, 1999
Don's Party
+ Party time - so put on the boxing gloves
Biting, unvarnished look at the state of affairs between the sexes, made no clearer or more encouraging when fueled by booze. Beresford's gift for highly personal, intimate film-making makes us flies on the wall, and what we see unfold is at once comically human and undeniably sad. A revealing, ...
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Chopper
Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon
Image Entertainment, 2001
Weird, much like the book
+ Weird but captivating
+ A Black Life
+ Eric Bana 'IS' Chopper.
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The Year My Voice Broke
Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen
Geneon [Pioneer], 2000
A romance that will stay with you
+ Thank you!
+ A rural tragedy
+ Poignant tale that captures the essence of growing up.
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