A whale of a tale
Whale Rider
Stars Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis and Grant Roa.
Rated PG.

Reviewer: PTE Simone Heyer

WOW. I knew nothing about Whale Rider before going to see it, expecting a few whales, and maybe a rider, set in New Zealand. Not even the highest praise can give this movie justice.

Enough is too much
Enough
Stars: J. Lo and Billy Campbell. Columbia TriStar. Rated MA. 110 mins.
Reviewer: Chris Powell
I’m not a J. Lo fan, so the DVD sat on the breakfast bar for about four days before I could bring myself to watch this cross between Sleeping with the Enemy and Double Jeopardy.

No knockout
Wasabi
Stars Jean Reno, Michel Muller and Ryoko Hirosue.Columbia TriStar, Rated M. 94 mins.
Reviewer: Gaelian Ditchburn

Hubert (Jean Reno) is a French police officer who has a military background and a knockout punch.

Defining year in our history
War on Our Doorstep
Edited by Gabrielle Chan. Hardie Grant Books. 316pp. $29.95.
Reviewer: CPL Alisha Welch
The national significance of Gallipoli has resulted in many Australians considering 1915 to be Australia’s unofficial year of birth......

French fighters
French Special Forces
By Eric Micheletti. Histoire & Collections. 160pp. $71
Reviewer: PTE Simone Heyer

As a former member of the French airborne and editor of Raids, a French military magazine, Eric Micheletti is well-placed to pen this detailed account of his country’s Special Forces....

Life staked on forgery skills
True Stories: Outwitting Hitler

Thursday, June 5, at 10pm. ABC TV.

Reviewer: CPL Alisha Welch

The story of how Holocaust survivor Marian Pretzel outwitted Hitler is fascinating, although typical of the World War II genre.