A film with great rock & roll; plus pyramids and Australia.

Valley Of The Kings (1954) Eleanor Parker, Robert Taylor, Carlos Thompson. Location filming at the site of the tombs in 1954 is very interesting and worth seeing. Story is a muddle and rehash of various other films. Stars have neither the humor or spirit of earlier work together. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047641/

Let The Good Times Roll (1973) Documentary.  The greats of rock and roll before it was acknowledged as a cultural phenomena. Great music. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143367/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Romulus, My Father (2007) Eric Bana, Franka Potenta, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Marton Csokas. Based on philosopher and writer Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir of his early life in a small farming community in Australia, with his emigrant parents. His mother is distant and seems unconnected sometimes; and then full of fun and laughter the next. She always neglects what needs to be done. His father is stoic and uncommunicative but manages to keep a roof over their heads. A rather joyless story of what the 1960's was like for poor people trying to find their way in a strange land. There was no help of any kind for mental illness. The acting is uniformly good. Cinematography marvelous - all buffy browns and slate skies. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462023/