No. 26 Young Ones (2014) 58 of 100
Sadly this offering doesn’t include Neil, Rik, Mike or Vyvyan – not even Cliff Richard! It is instead a sci-fi western, with a lot to like but a bit thin on plot. The film is set in a future America which has been decimated by drought. The settings look Australian but the film was shot in South Africa. Shannon plays Ernest Holm, a homesteader with a young family and a disabled wife. There is a suggestion that his wife’s injuries came from a drink involved accident for which Ernest was at fault. She stays in a care facility and can only walk via a high tech mechanical apparatus. Throughout the film there are well realised examples of technology that is just a bit more advanced than we have, such as a fan like mobile phone and a paper video card that you can watch funerals, and presumably other events, on. When we fist encounter Shannon he is dealing with two men who are trying to break into his hut. Both go for their guns but are cut down by Ernest’s nifty shotgun. We...