STARS: Jane Turner, Gila Riley, Glenn Robbins, Peter Rowsthorn, Magda Szubanski
This great Aussie fly-on-the-wall reality TV send-up (in the tradition of the ground breaking Sylvania Waters) is a real creeper - I got sucked in at the first episode.
There are eight 30-minute corkers made in docudrama style. The characters seem so close to suburban reality […]

STARS: JACK NICHOLSON, LOUISE FLETCHER, WILLIAM REDFIELD, DANNY DE VITO, CHRISTOPHER LLOYD.DIRECTED: MILOS FORMANA cinematic icon and winner of five Academy Awards in 1975 for - Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Adapted Screenplay.The fractious behaviour of small time petty criminal Randle P Mc Murphy (Jack Nicholson) has prison authorities baffled and he is admitted […]

STARS: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Swahala, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks
Having watched this edgy little masterpiece when it aired on ABC, I knew it was only a matter of time before it lurched drunkenly onto DVD. Saunders and Lumley really are comic talents, and the tour-de-force performances of the regular cast are certainly due in […]

STARS: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Swahala, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks
Can’t tell you much about this particular collection of 6 x 30 minute episodes, I’m afraid, as the promo DVD I have won’t play in my player!!!!
I have only the DVD cover to help me! If you want to know my overall feelings on […]

Stars: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, O.J. Simpson, Lee Strasberg, Ann Turkel, Ingrid Thulin, Lionel Stander.
Train passengers on the Geneva to Stockholm express find themselves fighting for their lives when a plague-carrying terrorist fleeing a bungled attack on the International Health Organisation is discovered onboard. The task of finding the […]

A shy young flower shop assistant from the wrong side of the tracks named Seymour (Johnathan Haze) is propelled to fame when he develops a strange new breed of plant. He names it Audrey Junior in honour of fellow shop assistant, Audrey, who he is infatuated with.
As time wears on the plant weakens and […]

STARS: LOLA MARCELI, ALICE ANSARD & ALEX DIMITRIADESDIRECTED: STEVEN JACOBSLucia (Ansar), a fourteen year old schoolgirl, watches in silence from a distance as her father leaves home for another woman. Her mother, the tempestuous but frigid La Spagnola (Marceli), is distraught and does everything possible to prevent this final departure. What follows examines in detail […]

STARS: DANIEL AUTUIL, GERARD DEPARDIEU, MICHELLE LAROQUE, THIERRY LHERMITTE, JEAN ROCHEFORT & ALEXANDRA VANDERNOOT. DIRECTED: FRANCIS VEBERPignon, played by Autuil, the French cinema’s version of Dustin Hoffman, is given notice by his employer, a condom manufacturer. With this blow, and still grieving from a two year old divorce and the alienation of his teenage son, […]

Starring: Mini Driver, Joey Lauren Adams, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Kathleen Turner.
Mona (Driver) is an enterprising child who dreams of beauty pageant success to escape a less than perfect childhood. Lacking affection & interest from her mother she meets up with Ruby (Adams) a selfless girl & her grandmother who become the family that Mona needs.
Jump […]

“Hello Old Friend……it’s good to see you back again”
I have no idea why it happened, but these words from an Eric Clapton song started ringing in my ears when replaying this series which I fell in love with back in 1998. Strangely (and joyously) it has not lost any of it’s magic.
The storyline evolves into […]