John Meillon – MRQE

Heatwave

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of Sydney.

Cairo

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.

‘Crocodile’ Dundee II

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who’ve followed her down under.

The Everlasting Secret Family

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.

Crocodile Dundee

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it’s a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. He proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.

Frenchman’s Farm

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An Australian woman’s car breaks down in the country, and when she goes to get help, she’s whisked back in time to 1944 and witnesses a murder. Returning to her car, time reverts to normal, but unable to convince anyone of her story, she investigates the crime herself.

On the Beach

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?

The Picture Show Man

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies

The Fourth Wish

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes – and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.

Ride a Wild Pony

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Scott, a poor farm boy, is given a wild pony from a wealthy ranch owner’s herd to ride to and from school. Scott and his pony soon become an inseparable team, until one day the pony suddenly disappears. Soon after, the ranch owner’s handicapped daughter Josie has a wild pony especially trained to pull her cart. But Scott is convinced that Josie’s pony is actually his, which leads to a court battle that divides their small Australian town. One child must ultimately lose the pony when true ownership is decided.