Drive Hard (2014)
Thomas Jane and John Cusack drive each other hard in Brian Trenchard-Smith’s latest action-comedy Drive Hard.
Chuckle time in Dead End Drive-In
Dead End Drive-In is one of Brian Trenchard-Smith's best films. There are a heap of highlights. Some of those highlights feature Wilbur Wilde (from Hey Hey It's Saturday). Every time Wilde makes an appearance he does something completely ridiculous. Including this clip.
Deathcheaters (1976)
Stuntmen. Saboteurs. Hellraisers! With a tagline like that who in their right mind wouldn’t want a Deathcheaters DVD for a Christmas present? That’s exactly what I thought when I gave this to my ladyfriend for Christmas and subsequently forced her to watch it that night.
How to swear like a bad guy
When Nicole Kidman and her BMX buddies steal walkie-talkies in Brian Trenchard-Smith's teen classic BMX Bandits, it infuriates some hardened criminals. But this reaction from terrifying tough man (David Argue) is utterly chilling.
BMX Bandits (1983)
Is there a radder film than Australia’s very own BMX Bandits? Of course there bloody isn’t. How rad is it? Well it contains all the raddest things ever: BMXs, walkie-talkies, Nicole Kidman’s twisted mane and, uh, foam.
Out of the Body (1989)
Brian Trenchard-Smith is, without a doubt, Australia’s finest purveyor of genre flicks. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Trenchard-Smith delivered us such classics as The Man from Hong Kong (1975), Turkey Shoot (1982), BMX Bandits (1983) and, the film this regular article is named after, Dead-End Drive In (1986). As the 90s rolled by, Trenchard-Smith started...
BMX Bandits – East German poster
Some pretty fantastic posters came out of East Germany back in the day. Similar in their creative energy to posters that were coming out of Poland and Czech Republic, East Germany advertised movies in ways that would never be dreamed of in their native countries. Just check out this awesome poster for Australian masterpiece BMX...
Day of the Panther (1988)
DAY OF THE PANTHER 1988, Brian Trenchard-Smith Brian Trenchard-Smith, director of such classic and well-loved Australian films as BMX Bandits, The Man from Hong Kong, Turkey Shoot and of course this column’s namesake, Dead End Drive-In, brings us this classic piece of Aussie chop socky from the 1980s. And what can I say but “wow”....
