Steven Vidler – MRQE

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (TV)

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

As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts of moviegoers around the world.

The Home Song Stories

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

Tom, now in his 40s, begins to write the memoirs of his 1960s childhood, as the little boy whose mother Rose was a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer. When Rose meets Aussie sailor Bill, they are quickly married, and she packs up Tom and his older sister May to head for Melbourne. The marriage just as quickly breaks up and Rose moves with the kids to Sydney. After a succession of male friends and little success, in 1971 Rose moves back to Melbourne, in an uncomfortable arrangement living again with Bill and his mother. With Bill called away to sea, Rose takes up with young Chinese cook Joe, but despair and conflicts over May’s relationship with Joe tear the family further apart. Little Tom is deeply hurt, but May’s ongoing conflict with her mother takes a respite when Rose tells her daughter about her traumatic teenage years.

Bad Eggs

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

Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity, who find they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption in the police force.

No Worries

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

A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.

Encounter at Raven’s Gate

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

Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother’s isolated farm. It’s not long before bizarre things start happening–dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking their owners, strange apparitions beginning to appear, and people who had been “normal” suddenly going insane.

Robbery Under Arms

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

Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel “Robbery Under Arms” by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill as the infamous Captain Starlight.

The Umbrella Woman

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

In pre-WWII Australia, a love triangle develops between a man, his wife and the man’s brother.