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Australian classics for 24 February...
A double update today because I was feeling adventurous...
Fair Game (officially the laziest title ever) is a mid-80s exploitation film set in rural South Australia and is about a woman (Cassandra Delaney) who runs a wildlife sanctuary who is harassed by a bunch of kangaroo hunters (who seem to be popular villains in Australian film). At first, it starts out with little games, but then it escalates to a harrowing car ride tied to a bizarre bumper bar and possibly more. She then gets her revenge on them, but not before the total destruction of her property and sanctuary. A real oddity from the 10BA Ozploitation era, but not a bad effort, surprisingly tense at times and Cassandra Delaney's characters aversion to clothes in a common theme throughout the film, including her magically appearing underpants in one scene. Here's a quick fact, Cassandra went on to marry John Denver, how 'bout that?
Bliss is an absurd black comedy from the mid 80s that looks to have influenced American Beauty and the similarities are quite obvious. Harry Joy dies for four minutes after a family dinner and after being revived, he starts to see his life very differently hoping to save his soul. He sees his wife having a brazen affair with her co-worker, his son is a drug dealer who lets his sister pay her debts by giving him blow jobs (um yeah...) and his company is polluting the Earth and with the help of an environmentally and spiritually aware prostitute named Honey Barbara, sets about changing that, even if it means the end of his company. Of course, his family thinks his gone mad, so they attempt to send him to an asylum, only for his loony co-worker to be taken instead. Eventually, he goes completely nuts, well according to his family who can't believe he's fallen for the hippie prostitute, admits himself to the asylum, where there are now two Harry Joys. Oh and it doesn't end there, there is plenty more absurd stuff to come including a marketing campaign involving the lighting of petrol, the lover who keeping blowing himself up, some Nazi Youth like action and then some. Quite simply one of the best Australian films ever made (and I don't say that lightly), a funny satire on the so-called happy family that has much more fun with it than American Beauty does. Shame the director had to wait 16 years before his second film, another beauty in Lantana.
The next Australian classic update will hopefully be something from a film that wasn't made in the 80s (or co-stars Garry Who).
Cassandra Delaney in Fair Game
42258kb 1min 44sec 960x544 (breasts, bum)
6136kb 17sec 960x544 (bum in photo)
5300kb 14sec 960x544 (breasts)
55138kb 2min 14sec 960x544 (breasts, tied to car and driven around, clothes cut open, gagged, lengthy)
32346kb 1min 19sec 960x544 (breasts)
Helen Jones in Bliss
11296kb 27sec 960x544 (in bath, shaving legs, trying on clothes)
62496kb 2min 33sec 960x544 (full frontal nudity, lengthy)
54288kb 2min 13sec 960x544 (side-boob, plenty of cleavage in gown, possible see-through)
50198kb 2min 03sec 960x544 (in nightie, nippy)
16356kb 30sec 960x544 (bum, naked swimming)
Lynette Curran in Bliss
16442kb 39sec 960x544 (sex in restaurant)
Redux Friday returns to feed off the scraps...
Alright, it's time to go over some old series again and thanks to TV networks needing to fulfil their Australian production quota, we have a whole bunch of Australian film off the TV. Otherwise, do you think they would air. Most are hard to watch. I won't have any of the ABC's showings because they like to get the knife out and cut them up. Bastards...
Not much to add, except most of the films were originally 2.35 widescreen but aired in 1.85 widescreen and are slightly zoomed, except, bizarrely enough for Gone which isn't zoomed and shows more of the picture. Strange. Nothing seems to be cut though. Also, Macbeth should be here, but twice the film didn't air, so who knows if that film will ever air. Also Maya Stange has changed her name to Maya Elliot, probably got married or something... Hasn't done much since XX/XY so it's good to see her back acting though after randomly appearing in an episode of Burn Notice a couple of years ago and recently in an episode of Satisfaction. She also has the third lead in the upcoming telemovie Wicked Love, which looks all sorts of sleazy :) thanks to the major plot involving swingers. Ahhhh, everything's sleazy again thanks to Underbelly...
Previous caps for the series below can be found at:
West | Gone | December Boys | Garage Days | Safety in Numbers
Toni Collette in Japanese Story
89239kb 2min 47sec 1280x720 (breasts, bum, very lengthy)
60545kb 1min 53sec 1280x720 (brief side-boob)
80977kb 2min 32sec 1280x720 (bra)
Gillian Alexy in West
36123kb 57sec 1280x720 (see-through top to bra, short skirt)
8219kb 13sec 1280x720 (sex scene)
55421kb 1min 28sec 1280x720 (breasts)
29970kb 48sec 1280x720 (plenty of cleavage)
35651kb 57sec 1280x720 (bra, bottomless although don't see anything)
39377kb 1min 03sec 1280x720 (clingy wet T-shirt, very nippy)
68469kb 1min 49sec 1280x720 (getting breast felt, short skirt with Yael Stone)
Yael Stone in West
68469kb 1min 49sec 1280x720 (bra, short dress, down blouse, sex scene with Gillian Alexy)
Blazey Best in West
32325kb 51sec 1280x720 (breasts, G-string)
Amelia Warner in Gone
24056kb 45sec 1280x720 (short shirt, nippy)
35367kb 1min 06sec 1280x720 (plenty of cleavage, sex scene)
25136kb 47sec 1280x720 (short shirt, nippy)
18717kb 35sec 1280x720 (plenty of cleavage)
52591kb 1min 38sec 1280x720 (breasts)
Victoria Hill in December Boys
12011kb 11sec 1280x720 (breasts, panties)
9610kb 18sec 1280x720 (breasts)
Teresa Palmer in December Boys
94535kb 3min 03sec 1280x720 (getting felt up and hand up skirt, lengthy)
Maya Stange (now Elliot) in Garage Days
13452kb 25sec 1280x720 (nippy)
15200kb 28sec 1280x720 (nippy)
37644kb 1min 10sec 1280x720 (nippy)
2184kb 2min 32sec 1280x720 (plenty of cleavage)
Pia Miranda in Garage Days
8126kb 15sec 1280x720 (bra, short skirt)
8126kb 26sec 1280x720 (nude under covers)
4618kb 8sec 1280x720 (short skirt)
36627kb 1min 08sec 1280x720 (breasts, side boob, sex scene)
Holly Brisley in Garage Days
17043kb 32sec 1280x720 (plenty of cleavage)
38387kb 1min 12sec 1280x720 (plenty of cleavage, perfotming blow job under table but don't see anything)
5271kb 9sec 1280x720 (plenty of cleavage)
Yvette Duncan in Garage Days
19409kb 36sec 1280x720 (bra, short skirt, sex scene)
8428kb 15sec 1280x720 (see-through shirt to bra, panties)
23132kb 43sec 1280x720 (plenty of cleavage, leather pants, jerks some guy off)
8655kb 16sec 1280x720 (breasts)
15167kb 28sec 1280x720 (sex scene)
Natalie Jain in Garage Days
27634kb 35sec 1280x720 (breasts with tassles, pole dancing)
Jessica Napier in Safety in Numbers
19494kb 47sec 960x544 (down-blouse, bra peeking out)
15394kb 37sec 960x544 (down-blouse, bra peeking out)
48126kb 1min 56sec 960x544 (wet T-shirt, nippy, down-blouse, bra peeking out)
43552kb 1min 45sec 960x544 (wet T-shirt, down-blouse, bra peeking out)
Tasma Walton in Safety in Numbers
Tasma Walton and Karen Pang in Safety in Numbers
19508kb 47sec 960x544 (both in bikinis)
11336kb 29sec 960x544 (both in bikinis)
Karen Pang in Safety in Numbers
58420kb 2min 21sec 960x544 (bikini bottoms, nippy)
34648kb 1min 25sec 960x544 (down-blouse to bikini top, plenty of cleavage)
Australian classics for 16 February...
I tried to make some collages fo rthe weekend, I really did try, but, I ended up being sidetracked yet again. Anyway, I've got a nice crisp Australian classic for this week, sticking with the 80s, this time the hard to find 80s comedy Emoh Ruo.
Emoh Ruo (Our Home backwards) is a quaint relic from the 10BA era that I really doubt too many people have actually seen. Bizarrely rescued by Village Roadshow and given a surprisingly decent DVD treatment (can't say the same about the ordinary film transfer, yuck), this film focuses on a couple desperate to own their first home. Struggling for years to save up enough to buy a home and living in what seems like forever in a tiny caravan at a caravan park, the couple get a bit of luck when they apply for a house they saw advertised on the TV. After selling the husband's long treasured boat to get the deposit, they head off the end of suburbia in what seems like light years away from everyone else to their new home in a street that only has one other house in it. But, their new home is a complete disaster with all the shonky building practises thoroughly applied. Inbetween struggles to pay the mortgage and the marriage falling apart because of it, the house has one problem after another. The comedy has kind of dated, but the story still resonates perfectly today as it's still a monumental struggle to own a home. Not a bad film, but one that is clearly now out-of-time.
I'll see what I can do about getting those other collages done. In the meantime head over to JMTV and you'll find a whole heap of videos from the series Headland with Rachael Taylor and Yvonne Strahovski (as she was Yvonne Strzechowski) before they got some big roles in Hollywood.
Joy Smithers in Emoh Ruo
9078kb 29sec 704x528 (breasts, bum)
27016kb 1min 24sec 704x528 (breasts, panties in shower with Diane Smith naked)
Diane Smith in Emoh Ruo
27016kb 1min 24sec 704x528 (breasts with Joy Smithers naked, same video as above)
Australian classics for 10 February...
I haven't been bothered to make collages few weeks, so it's coming out in dribs and drabs at the moment. I think doing all those videos (which I still haven't been bothered to release...) has made me a bit bored of it for the moment, same with the weather, which has been unbearably hot and pushes the computer to ridiculous temperatures. Hopefully, I'll get busy soon. In the meantime, I have another Australian classic, this time the 1982 drama Monkey Grip.
Monkey Grip is about woman who is recently divorced, has a 11 year old child and is aspiring to get into the music industry, but in the meantime is a part-time writer. She meets Javo, who she sort of knows and they start a relationship together. But, he's very flaky because he's on the horse (there's the requistite junkie in an Australian film...) and she doesn't know what to do with herself because she loves him, a lot. A film set in Melbourne, but mostly filmed in Sydney, it has it's similarities to the vastly inferior Dogs in Space and is a very disjointed drama, but it works, mainly thanks to some outstanding lead performances from Noni Hazlehurst and Colin Friels. Also features a rare foray into acting from The Divinyls lead singer Chrissie Amphlett, when the Divinyls were really good, which is a bonus.
I'll try to get some more stuff out for the weekend. I'll try...
Noni Hazlehurst in Monkey Grip
10398kb 25sec 960x544 (one piece bathing suit)
2542kb 7sec 960x544 (brief breasts putting shirt on)
60950kb 2min 29sec 960x544 (breasts, bum, brief full frontal nudity)
45978kb 1min 51sec 960x544 (breasts, having nipples and fingers sucked, lengthy sex scene)
21992kb 55sec 960x544 (breasts in shower)
11996kb 30sec 960x544 (full frontal nudity)
12156kb 31sec 960x544 (breasts)
5560kb 15sec 960x544 (side-boob, strategically nude...)
35408kb 1min 26sec 960x544 (one piece bathing suit)
Australian classics (apparently...)
Recently, I have been collecting quite a number of older Australian films, so it's about time that I watched them and maybe even cap them.
First up is the long forgotten, but recently rediscovered Dead End Drive-In. Set somewhere in the 1990s (the film was released in 1986) where society has self-distructed and is run extremely tightly be the haves, a man known as Crabs (insert a thousand jokes here) is taking his girl to the drive-in where he enters into the drive-in by paying the unemployed price. While having sex in the car, two of the wheels of the car are stolen and they are stuck there with a whole bunch of society's misfits. It turns out the police are involved. Crabs doesn't fit in with the weirdos inhabiting the drive-in and desperately wants to leave, but it seems nobody leaves as the drive-in is a dump for the riff-raff. While the premise is very much B-grade, there is much promise that isn't quite fulfilled. The film also tries for too much and a sub-plot involving the dumping of Asians at the drive-in is perhaps a bit crude (this would definitely not happen in these politically correct times). Maybe I'm stretching it with the classic label, but the film is much better than it's reputation and definitely one of cult director Brian Trenchard-Smith's (BTS) better films (and he's done some real stinkers).
I have many, many to come, so it should keep busy for a while.
Natalie McCurry in Dead End Drive-In
18200kb 49sec 800x336 (breasts, bum)
27096kb 1min 03sec 800x336 (in towel)
37988kb 1min 28sec 800x336 (plenty of cleavage)
Unknowns in Dead End Drive-In
16320kb 38sec 800x336 (breasts of various women)