USSR secret exposed
K-19: The Widowmaker
Starring Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson and Peter Sarsgaard. Rated M.
Reviewer :: The Big Irish Git

K-19 was dubbed the widowmaker long before it put to sea. Dogged by problems of supply, poor workmanship, tight budgets, an unyielding and ill-advised adherence to schedules and other joys of communism, K-19 was Russia’s first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. A big boat.

The Navigators
Adventure on the high seas.
by Klaus Toft, Duffy and Snellgrove, 354 pages. $20
Reviewer :: Michael Weaver

If you long for a genuine tale of adventure on the high seas, this is a great read. Furthermore, The Navigators, derived from an ABC series of the same name, unveils fascinating history about the so-called race between Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin to discover the fabled passage through the middle of Australia.

Under Seige
Contemporary plot worth a look
by Stephen Coonts. Orion Paperbacks, 608 pages, $17.95
Reviewer :: Brian Hickey

COLOMBIAN suicide squads, drug wars and a sniper loose in Washington who has been tasked to hunt and kill senior members of the American Government.

It wasn’t so long ago that these scenarios would have seemed a little far-fetched.

Trendy, fresh UK drama

Attachments
Wednesday, December 11, at 9.30pm on ABC-TV
Reviewer: Cpl Alisha Carr

SEX, nudity, young, modern and undeniably fresh – these words come to mind after watching the first episode in a new 10-part drama series set in the UK, which follows the lives of a group of entrepreneurs starting an IT business.

Attachments depicts a bunch of trendy Londoners and their various relationship and corporate struggles. Viewers will relate to the frustration of having to rely on other people and external finance in order to make dreams a success.

Relying on the emotional and tactical support of his publisher wife Luce (Claudia Harrison), Mike Fisher (Justin Pierre) is about to turn his hobby Internet site into a professional business.

The couple, along with an eclectic group of hip friends, face a series of tough challenges and if you are into effective, snappy camera work somewhat like that seen in NYPD Blue – but not quite as full on – you will probably like this show.

Think toilet scenes, stalkers, sexual innuendo and workplace power struggles. Think deceit, friendship, temptation and death.

Attachments is certainly not a light-hearted view of modern Western society but one definitely worth watching, mainly for the subtle and sometimes comical anthropological value you might gain from a night in front of the telly.