Money and matrimony
Intolerable Cruelty
Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney, Geoffrey Rush. Rated M.
Reviewer :: Lt Simone Heyer

If a woman can successfully marry for money - successful in that she marries him, gets half his stash, then divorces him - then she has my sincere congratulations.

Taboos explored
Far From Heaven
Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert. Rated M. RedBack DVD.
Reviewer :: Name

This movie, set in the late 1950s, explores some taboo subjects that would have been avoided had the film been made in that era.

Bitter struggle
Endurance and sacrifice in the rubble of Stalingrad
Stalingrad: Memories and reassessments
By Joachim Wieder and Heinrich Von Einsiedel. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 320pp. $19.95.
Reviewer :: Cpl Troy Hutchinson

Written in three parts, this classic memoir of the world war two struggle for Stalingrad by one of the few Germans who survived, Joachim Wieder, was written in 1962.

The Scientist (single)

This is the second single from the album A Rush Of Blood To The Head, fast approaching the level of success that the band's first million-selling album, Parachutes, enjoyed.

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Rebuilding trials

Cutting Edge. The Price of Victory. SBS, November 25 at 8.30pm.
Reviewer: Paul Cross

If you can get through the first 10 minutes, which look like a propaganda film, The Price of Victory is interesting viewing.

Unfortunately those first minutes are disjointed and fail to grab the viewer's attention.

After the opening, the documentary settles into a more fluid style.

The Price of Victory is about the occupation of Iraq by US and Coalition forces after the fall of Saddam and the trials and tribulations associated with the rebuilding of a nation.

It does not pull its punches, interviewing soldiers and civilians critical of the slow pace of reconstruction viewed from life on the streets.

Many of the images are graphic, such as the bodies of Saddam's sons on a mortuary slab.

It also investigates an incident where a soldier shot an unarmed (but rock-throwing) protester during a demonstration - giving the official US version as well as the views of US soldiers and Iraqi civilians that are in stark contrast to the report.

The Price of Victory is an interesting look into the military policing of the issues affecting a re-emergent nation.