Brollie is the bonkers Aussie free streamer you need in your life

Iwas only a nipper when I snuck into a late-night screening of an Australian film called Turkey Shoot in one of Hamilton's magnificent old flea-pits. Turkey Shoot was a kind of Aussie Logan's Run rip-off, but with a lot more blood, boobs and barbies. Naturally, I loved it.

I don't know why I was out so late or what I was even doing there. But Turkey Shoot is one of those films that has stayed with me all of my life. It's not good, or even particularly watchable. But there's a bonkers, blood-soaked and deranged energy about Turkey Shoot that made it stand out from all the Hollywood offerings around.

So, imagine my delight, when a couple of weeks back I subscribed to a new streaming service called Brollie, and found that not only was Turkey Shoot there, but also the legendary Australian doco Not Quite Hollywood - the definitive, unmissable and often unbelievable true story of some of the very best films you have probably never heard of.

Ozploitation is the name we give now to a couple of decades’ worth of Aussie films that came pouring out of the West Island from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. You could probably argue that the 1979 Mad Max was the highpoint of the movement. But most of what gets called Ozploitation today was a hell of a lot less successful and influential than that.

Director Mark Hartley spent five years writing and researching Not Quite Hollywood before approaching longtime Ozploitation fan Quentin Tarantino to come on-board as producer. Hartley secured interviews with Jamie Lee Curtis, Dennis Hopper, George Miller (Mad Max), Barry Humphries and many others and threaded the story together with a buffet of jaw-dropping clips and out-takes from dozens of little-seen films.

Not Quite Hollywood is an old-school hoot about an unrepeatable, totally un-PC and mostly forgotten age of Ocker greatness. Some of our own films from the era – especially Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and Smash Palace – all owe a lot to what was happening over the Tasman, but they also look pretty tame by comparison.

All of which brings us back to Brollie, where I found both Turkey Shoot and Not Quite Hollywood. Brollie is a free service from over the Ditch.

As you would expect, they are seriously heavy on the Australian content - which is never a bad thing - but also home to a cheerfully eclectic bunch of films and documentaries from all over the

Not Quite Hollywood is an oldschool hoot about an unrepeatable, totally un-PC and mostly forgotten age of Ocker greatness.

world.

Without even looking too hard, I found Electric Boogaloo – on the infamous Cannon Films studio, the epic Grace Jones doco Bloodlight and Bami, the absolutely cult Bad Boy Bubby, and – joy of joys – the unbelievable Jaws-in-the-outback-with-agiant-pig epic that is Razorback, directed in 1984 by Russell Mulcahy, who would become a lot more famous two years later with a wee film called Highlander.

Brollie is a terrific addition to our supply of streaming platforms. And it's completely free.

Get in there.