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Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent bruised and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film INFERNAL AFFAIRS which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob member and a mob member infiltrating the police force. Scorsese transfers the action to Boston positioning Leonardo Di Caprio as undercover cop William Costigan and Matt Damon as undercover mobster Colin Sullivan. While Costigan and Sullivan get into plenty of nail-biting situations that almost reveal their true identities Scorsese gradually unravels his strong supporting cast including Jack Nicholson as Sullivan's mob boss Frank Costello; Ray Winstone as Costello's meat-headed muscle; Mark Wahlberg as a hot-headed police sergeant; and Vera Farmiga as a love interest for both Damon and DiCaprio's characters. THE DEPARTED finds Scorsese generously dipping his toes back into waters that will be warmly familiar to his biggest fans. Rolling Stones songs pepper the soundtrack recalling the remarkable "Jumpin' Jack Flash" sequence in MEAN STREETS; bullets and blood punctuate every key scene bringing TAXI DRIVER's explosive finale to mind; and the mobster-themed storyline is a thrilling return to GOODFELLAS territory. Nicholson and Winstone provide acting master-classes every time they appear neatly complementing the blossoming talents of DiCaprio Damon and Wahlberg while further veteran support comes in small roles for Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin. Scorsese is often criticized for affording precious little screen time to female characters and THE DEPARTED won't quell those dissenting voices although Farmiga's character proves to be more than a match for DiCaprio and Damon's posturings. But Scorsese followers who balked at his diversions into documentary filmmaking NO DIRECTION HOME and period epics THE AVIATOR will be delighted to find raw male machismo puncturing the screen once again in this frenetic entry into his celebrated oeuvre.

Director: Rowdy Herrington; Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., James Marshall, Robert Loggia; Release Date: September 26, 2000

Gerard Butler

Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent bruised and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film INFERNAL AFFAIRS which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob member and a mob member infiltrating the police force. Scorsese transfers the action to Boston positioning Leonardo Di Caprio as undercover cop William Costigan and Matt Damon as undercover mobster Colin Sullivan. While Costigan and Sullivan get into plenty of nail-biting situations that almost reveal their true identities Scorsese gradually unravels his strong supporting cast including Jack Nicholson as Sullivan's mob boss Frank Costello; Ray Winstone as Costello's meat-headed muscle; Mark Wahlberg as a hot-headed police sergeant; and Vera Farmiga as a love interest for both Damon and DiCaprio's characters. THE DEPARTED finds Scorsese generously dipping his toes back into waters that will be warmly familiar to his biggest fans. Rolling Stones songs pepper the soundtrack recalling the remarkable "Jumpin' Jack Flash" sequence in MEAN STREETS; bullets and blood punctuate every key scene bringing TAXI DRIVER's explosive finale to mind; and the mobster-themed storyline is a thrilling return to GOODFELLAS territory. Nicholson and Winstone provide acting master-classes every time they appear neatly complementing the blossoming talents of DiCaprio Damon and Wahlberg while further veteran support comes in small roles for Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin. Scorsese is often criticized for affording precious little screen time to female characters and THE DEPARTED won't quell those dissenting voices although Farmiga's character proves to be more than a match for DiCaprio and Damon's posturings. But Scorsese followers who balked at his diversions into documentary filmmaking NO DIRECTION HOME and period epics THE AVIATOR will be delighted to find raw male machismo puncturing the screen once again in this frenetic entry into his celebrated oeuvre.

Director: Britt Allcroft; Stars: Alec Baldwin; Release Date: October 31, 2000

Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent bruised and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film INFERNAL AFFAIRS which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob member and a mob member infiltrating the police force. Scorsese transfers the action to Boston positioning Leonardo Di Caprio as undercover cop William Costigan and Matt Damon as undercover mobster Colin Sullivan. While Costigan and Sullivan get into plenty of nail-biting situations that almost reveal their true identities Scorsese gradually unravels his strong supporting cast including Jack Nicholson as Sullivan's mob boss Frank Costello; Ray Winstone as Costello's meat-headed muscle; Mark Wahlberg as a hot-headed police sergeant; and Vera Farmiga as a love interest for both Damon and DiCaprio's characters. THE DEPARTED finds Scorsese generously dipping his toes back into waters that will be warmly familiar to his biggest fans. Rolling Stones songs pepper the soundtrack recalling the remarkable "Jumpin' Jack Flash" sequence in MEAN STREETS; bullets and blood punctuate every key scene bringing TAXI DRIVER's explosive finale to mind; and the mobster-themed storyline is a thrilling return to GOODFELLAS territory. Nicholson and Winstone provide acting master-classes every time they appear neatly complementing the blossoming talents of DiCaprio Damon and Wahlberg while further veteran support comes in small roles for Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin. Scorsese is often criticized for affording precious little screen time to female characters and THE DEPARTED won't quell those dissenting voices although Farmiga's character proves to be more than a match for DiCaprio and Damon's posturings. But Scorsese followers who balked at his diversions into documentary filmmaking NO DIRECTION HOME and period epics THE AVIATOR will be delighted to find raw male machismo puncturing the screen once again in this frenetic entry into his celebrated oeuvre.

Sandra Bullock

SPACE ANGEL was unique among early animated television series as a science fiction title that utilized ultra-realistic designs settings and characters created by artist Alex Toth; and despite severely limited indeed almost non-existent animation it managed to be exciting and visually engrossing. A lot of attention has been devoted across the decades to the series' use of "Synchro-Vox" a patented animation technique used earlier by the same producers Cambria Productions on the series CLUTCH CARGO in which human lips were superimposed on the cartoon figures' faces -- but that technique works a lot better here than it did on CLUTCH CARGO and is also the least of the visual wonders of this series. Toth's figures and designs all anticipate such celebrated Japanese anime series as STAR BLAZERS made decades later. And all of that is brought home in this DVD release of nine episodes of the series which presents the series in far richer color than has been seen since the series originally aired in 1962-64 and how many viewers had color sets then?. The transfers are so sharp that a multitude of minute flaws in the original shooting are seen in detail but none of that is sufficient to detract from the enjoyment of the series. And yes there is some graininess in the image but the detail surrounding that grain -- the spaceship designs control panels the quasi-realistic motion and the dialogue and music all combine to make the program as engrossing to sci-fi viewers and anime enthusiasts in 2008 as it was to kids in 1962. What's more the stories aren't bad either -- oh a lot of it is typical space-opera of the period similar to the stories on CAPTAIN VIDEO SPACE PATROL and other live action series -- but Toth's designs and the mix of voices and music very much on the eerie side combine to make the material a lot more interesting to watch than the crude effects and mostly bad acting of those earlier series ever provided. The full-screen image 1.33-to-1 is a lot brighter than the one prior incarnation of this series on home video a VHS release from the early 1980's ever looked and the sound is clean and well-balanced if not over-bright. Each individual story is accessible from an easy-to-use menu with a separate chapter for each five-episode tale. The clean transfers would be enough to interest most fans in this series but what makes this a genuine treat for animation fans is the bonus feature an interview with actress Margaret Kerry who did the voice of Crystal and several other characters on the series -- her anecdotes about the production and the makers of the series as well as her reminiscences of her career are worth the price of admission by itself. She spends just the right amount of time on each area and her sense of humor is as appealing as her memory is detailed making for an engaging and entertaining mix.

Director: Wes Craven; Stars: Peter Berg, Mitch Pileggi; Release Date: March 16, 1999

Crispin Glover

Director: John McTiernan, Paul Anderson, Stephen Hopkins; Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Glover; Release Date: April 15, 2008

Billy Crystal

Stars: Ciara, Adrienne Bailon; Release Date: May 23, 2006

Based on a the true story of cadre of Nazi officers who grew to oppose Hitler's murderous pursuits and made several attempts to kill him in the late stages of WWII VALKYRIE features a top-flight cast with drama and suspense in equal measure. The film is a stylistic departure for director Bryan Singer X-MEN X2 and star Tom Cruise with a screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie THE USUAL SUSPECTS and Nathan Alexander that is constructed like a heist film with a team of like-minded men coming together for a common purpose and facing incredible odds. It is 1943 and though he has come to be disgusted by Hitler's campaign of evil Count Claus von Stauffenberg Tom Cruise has risen to the level of lieutenant colonel in the German army. Convinced that Hitler must die Von Stauffenberg requests a transfer to Tunisia where he loses his left eye and right hand during an Allied air raid. Falling in with a group of similarly disillusioned officers including Major General Henning von Tresckow Kenneth Branagh General Friedrich Olbricht Bill Nighy General Friedrich Fromm Tom Wilkinson and Colonel General Ludwig Beck Terence Stamp Stauffenberg is at the center of several attempts on Der Fuhrer's life culminating in a bombing that kills a handful of his officers and leaves Hitler only slightly injured. Though advance photos of Cruise in Nazi uniform brought VALKYRIE negative publicity his restrained performance is at the heart of this well-crafted thinking person's action movie. He is bolstered by an incredible British cast including Branagh Stamp and Wilkinson and by the film's dazzling art direction. Though it's a story to which viewers should already know the ending Singer still creates ample suspense. The result is a taut and effective historical thriller.

Release Date: September 15, 2009

Dan Blocker

Timothy Dunphy lives in a working-class neighborhood in Rhode Island with his gruff father Baldwin and a three-legged dog. He spends most of his time goofing off and getting in trouble until an accident with a police car forces him to transfer to an upper-class boarding school. There Tim must learn the ways of his new world while exploring life and romance. A touching comedy written and produced by the Farrelly brothers creators of DUMB AND DUMBER and THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY. Includes bonus footage and an alternate ending.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS's star Drew Waters headlines this modern retelling of the Prodigal Son parable centering on a high school basketball coach whose faith is shaken when his talented adoptive son turns his back on both his family and his team. On the heels of a difficult season Joe Conaghey's adopted son Josh decides to transfer schools so he can play with a better ranking team. With his star player gone the dejected coach's faith takes a major hit. Now the only thing that can bring Josh home to the father who loves him and the teammates who once supported him is trust in the lord and human compassion.

Stars: Steven Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer; Release Date: September 04, 2007

Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent bruised and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film INFERNAL AFFAIRS which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob member and a mob member infiltrating the police force. Scorsese transfers the action to Boston positioning Leonardo Di Caprio as undercover cop William Costigan and Matt Damon as undercover mobster Colin Sullivan. While Costigan and Sullivan get into plenty of nail-biting situations that almost reveal their true identities Scorsese gradually unravels his strong supporting cast including Jack Nicholson as Sullivan's mob boss Frank Costello; Ray Winstone as Costello's meat-headed muscle; Mark Wahlberg as a hot-headed police sergeant; and Vera Farmiga as a love interest for both Damon and DiCaprio's characters. THE DEPARTED finds Scorsese generously dipping his toes back into waters that will be warmly familiar to his biggest fans. Rolling Stones songs pepper the soundtrack recalling the remarkable "Jumpin' Jack Flash" sequence in MEAN STREETS; bullets and blood punctuate every key scene bringing TAXI DRIVER's explosive finale to mind; and the mobster-themed storyline is a thrilling return to GOODFELLAS territory. Nicholson and Winstone provide acting master-classes every time they appear neatly complementing the blossoming talents of DiCaprio Damon and Wahlberg while further veteran support comes in small roles for Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin. Scorsese is often criticized for affording precious little screen time to female characters and THE DEPARTED won't quell those dissenting voices although Farmiga's character proves to be more than a match for DiCaprio and Damon's posturings. But Scorsese followers who balked at his diversions into documentary filmmaking NO DIRECTION HOME and period epics THE AVIATOR will be delighted to find raw male machismo puncturing the screen once again in this frenetic entry into his celebrated oeuvre.

Director Tommy O'Haver's BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS sophomore effort is a breezy teen romance that injects a much needed jolt of wit and energy into an overworked genre. Ben Foster FREAKS AND GEEKS stars as Berke a fairly nondescript basketball player whose romance with the beautiful Allison Melissa Sagemiller has made him the happiest man in school as well as the envy of his classmates. Unfortunately Allison doesn't feel the same way and dumps him in the opening minutes of the film. Determined to win her back Berke auditions for the high school play "A Midsummer Night's Rockin' Dream" in which Allison has snagged the lead role. Thwarting his hopes of reconciliation is the guy that Allison just started dating Striker a transfer student who heads a semi-famous boy band and sports a laughable European accent. Enlisting the help of his best friend's sister Kelly Kirsten Dunst Berke tries to rehearse for the play and finds his emotions caught between his past with Allison and his burgeoning feelings for Kelly. Sweet and funny especially during Martin Short's appearances as the play's name-dropping director GET OVER IT is an excellent teen film bolstered by an exceptional cast.

In this lively musical comedy drama set in the late '60s Willie Rocky McKenzie is a 16-year-old living in Broome an Aboriginal community on the western coast of Australia. Willie is an easygoing kid who doesn't ask for much from life beyond enjoying time with his friends and getting a date with Rosie Jessica Mauboy a pretty girl who attends the same church. But Willie's mother thinks he should be following a more responsible path and convinces him to transfer to a Catholic boarding school for boys in Perth. It doesn't take long for Willie to run afoul of Father Benedictus Geoffrey Rush the school's iron-willed headmaster and Willie runs away. Stranded in Perth Willie is befriended by Uncle Tadpole Ernie Dingo a streetwise character who lived in Broome as a youngster. Uncle Tadpole offers to help Willie get back home and they hit the highway hitchhiking back to Broome and catching rides with a handful of colorful strangers including Teutonic tourist Slippery Tom Budge and flower child Annie Missy Higgins. But as Willie and Uncle Tadpole make their way across the continent Father Benedictus is in hot pursuit determined not to let a truant slip from his grasp. BRAN NUE DAE was adapted from the hit stage musical by Jimmy Chi that was a major box-office success and multiple award winner in Australia during the early '90s; the film version received its word premiere at the 2009 Melbourne Film Festival where it received the Audience Award for Best Film.

Dann Florek

Master of the macabre Wes Craven directs this pair of nightmare-inducing films. THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS: Fool a 13-year-old boy lives in the ghetto with his sister and sick mother. When his family doesn't have enough money to pay the rent Fool is persuaded by Leroy Ving Rhames to break into his landlord's house to steal a valuable coin collection. Once Fool and Leroy are inside the huge and heavily fortified house they realize they've gotten more than they bargained for as the landlords turn out to be an insane brother-and-sister couple Everett McGill and Wendy Robie who murder visitors and keep their kidnapped "sons" locked up in the basement as deformed monsters. Only Alice an imprisoned girl can save Fool from the horrors within and a frantic chase begins between the walls of the bizarre house as Fool tries to save himself Alice and his community from the evil landlords. A unique and inventive horror film THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS combines the structure of a classic fairy tale with modern social criticism and imaginative production design. Director Wes Craven based his film on real-life news reports of parents who kept their children locked up at home. SHOCKER: After a series of unusual dreams young football star Jonathan Parker Peter Berg captures serial killer Horace Pinker Mitch Pileggi a diabolical television repairman responsible for the deaths of several families. Pinker is sentenced to die in the electric chair but the execution goes awry and more people are mysteriously killed. Jonathan realizes that Pinker has used black magic to transfer himself into electricity able to travel through power lines into homes through television sets. Despite the skepticism of his police detective father Michael Murphy only Jonathan can track Pinker down and destroy him once and for all. Director Wes Craven combines his serial-killer thriller with a dash of social criticism satirizing the modern obsession with the media in ways similar to his later hit SCREAM. Horace Pinker is a tough slasher in the Freddy Krueger mode making wisecracks between murders making SHOCKER a tense but funny horror movie with appearances by John Tesh and Dr. Timothy Leary as a televangelist as well as a cameo by Craven himself. The film climaxes in a wild chase between Jonathan and Pinker through the dangerous television landscapes a realm where anything can happen.

Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent bruised and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film INFERNAL AFFAIRS which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob member and a mob member infiltrating the police force. Scorsese transfers the action to Boston positioning Leonardo Di Caprio as undercover cop William Costigan and Matt Damon as undercover mobster Colin Sullivan. While Costigan and Sullivan get into plenty of nail-biting situations that almost reveal their true identities Scorsese gradually unravels his strong supporting cast including Jack Nicholson as Sullivan's mob boss Frank Costello; Ray Winstone as Costello's meat-headed muscle; Mark Wahlberg as a hot-headed police sergeant; and Vera Farmiga as a love interest for both Damon and DiCaprio's characters. THE DEPARTED finds Scorsese generously dipping his toes back into waters that will be warmly familiar to his biggest fans. Rolling Stones songs pepper the soundtrack recalling the remarkable "Jumpin' Jack Flash" sequence in MEAN STREETS; bullets and blood punctuate every key scene bringing TAXI DRIVER's explosive finale to mind; and the mobster-themed storyline is a thrilling return to GOODFELLAS territory. Nicholson and Winstone provide acting master-classes every time they appear neatly complementing the blossoming talents of DiCaprio Damon and Wahlberg while further veteran support comes in small roles for Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin. Scorsese is often criticized for affording precious little screen time to female characters and THE DEPARTED won't quell those dissenting voices although Farmiga's character proves to be more than a match for DiCaprio and Damon's posturings. But Scorsese followers who balked at his diversions into documentary filmmaking NO DIRECTION HOME and period epics THE AVIATOR will be delighted to find raw male machismo puncturing the screen once again in this frenetic entry into his celebrated oeuvre.

Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent bruised and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film INFERNAL AFFAIRS which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob member and a mob member infiltrating the police force. Scorsese transfers the action to Boston positioning Leonardo Di Caprio as undercover cop William Costigan and Matt Damon as undercover mobster Colin Sullivan. While Costigan and Sullivan get into plenty of nail-biting situations that almost reveal their true identities Scorsese gradually unravels his strong supporting cast including Jack Nicholson as Sullivan's mob boss Frank Costello; Ray Winstone as Costello's meat-headed muscle; Mark Wahlberg as a hot-headed police sergeant; and Vera Farmiga as a love interest for both Damon and DiCaprio's characters. THE DEPARTED finds Scorsese generously dipping his toes back into waters that will be warmly familiar to his biggest fans. Rolling Stones songs pepper the soundtrack recalling the remarkable "Jumpin' Jack Flash" sequence in MEAN STREETS; bullets and blood punctuate every key scene bringing TAXI DRIVER's explosive finale to mind; and the mobster-themed storyline is a thrilling return to GOODFELLAS territory. Nicholson and Winstone provide acting master-classes every time they appear neatly complementing the blossoming talents of DiCaprio Damon and Wahlberg while further veteran support comes in small roles for Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin. Scorsese is often criticized for affording precious little screen time to female characters and THE DEPARTED won't quell those dissenting voices although Farmiga's character proves to be more than a match for DiCaprio and Damon's posturings. But Scorsese followers who balked at his diversions into documentary filmmaking NO DIRECTION HOME and period epics THE AVIATOR will be delighted to find raw male machismo puncturing the screen once again in this frenetic entry into his celebrated oeuvre.

Guy Ritchie returns to form with this cockney crime caper starring Gerard Butler and Tom Wilkinson. Lenny Cole Wilkinson is a bungling London crime boss who calls the shots in London's underworld. We learn all about Lenny from Archie Mark Strong--his second in command--who serves as the film's sly narrator. When a wealthy Russian property dealer by the name of Uri Karel Roden looks to Lenny for help on a major new deal Lenny is eager to assist for a very large fee of course. Uri agrees to pay and as a show of faith he insists that Lenny borrow his "lucky painting." Uri then asks his accountant Stella Thandie Newton to transfer the money to Lenny but things quickly go awry when two crooks known as Mumbles Idris Elba and One Two Butler intercept the money before it reaches him. To make matters worse the lucky painting has mysteriously been stolen and the number one suspect is a crack-addicted pop star Johnny Quid who is presumed dead. Violent hijinks ensue as Lenny desperately tries to locate the painting Uri calls in some sadistic thugs to recover his money and Johnny Quid suddenly resurfaces. Men are battered with golf clubs fed to crawfish and attacked with machetes and a surprise twist ending neatly ties up the whole bloody mess. Fans of Ritchie will likely be very pleased to see him return to his SNATCH-style of filmmaking. ROCKNROLLA has the same frenetic humorous edge as the film that made him famous though critics might complain that this particular style is starting to look a little dusty. Regardless ROCKNROLLA features many fine performances and once you get past the rather slow beginning it kicks off into an entertaining and amusing romp.

Based on a the true story of cadre of Nazi officers who grew to oppose Hitler's murderous pursuits and made several attempts to kill him in the late stages of WWII VALKYRIE features a top-flight cast with drama and suspense in equal measure. The film is a stylistic departure for director Bryan Singer X-MEN X2 and star Tom Cruise with a screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie THE USUAL SUSPECTS and Nathan Alexander that is constructed like a heist film with a team of like-minded men coming together for a common purpose and facing incredible odds. It is 1943 and though he has come to be disgusted by Hitler's campaign of evil Count Claus von Stauffenberg Tom Cruise has risen to the level of lieutenant colonel in the German army. Convinced that Hitler must die Von Stauffenberg requests a transfer to Tunisia where he loses his left eye and right hand during an Allied air raid. Falling in with a group of similarly disillusioned officers including Major General Henning von Tresckow Kenneth Branagh General Friedrich Olbricht Bill Nighy General Friedrich Fromm Tom Wilkinson and Colonel General Ludwig Beck Terence Stamp Stauffenberg is at the center of several attempts on Der Fuhrer's life culminating in a bombing that kills a handful of his officers and leaves Hitler only slightly injured. Though advance photos of Cruise in Nazi uniform brought VALKYRIE negative publicity his restrained performance is at the heart of this well-crafted thinking person's action movie. He is bolstered by an incredible British cast including Branagh Stamp and Wilkinson and by the film's dazzling art direction. Though it's a story to which viewers should already know the ending Singer still creates ample suspense. The result is a taut and effective historical thriller.

Director Roger Kumble transfers the DANGEROUS LIASONS tale to Manhattan where wealthy prep school student Kathryn Sarah Michelle Gellar bets her stepbrother Sebastian Ryan Phillipe that he can't deflower the virginal Annette Reese Witherspoon before the school year begins. If he fails to accomplish this task Kathryn gets his Jaguar Roadster; if he succeeds he gets an evening of pleasure with Kathryn.

In this lively musical comedy drama set in the late '60s Willie Rocky McKenzie is a 16-year-old living in Broome an Aboriginal community on the western coast of Australia. Willie is an easygoing kid who doesn't ask for much from life beyond enjoying time with his friends and getting a date with Rosie Jessica Mauboy a pretty girl who attends the same church. But Willie's mother thinks he should be following a more responsible path and convinces him to transfer to a Catholic boarding school for boys in Perth. It doesn't take long for Willie to run afoul of Father Benedictus Geoffrey Rush the school's iron-willed headmaster and Willie runs away. Stranded in Perth Willie is befriended by Uncle Tadpole Ernie Dingo a streetwise character who lived in Broome as a youngster. Uncle Tadpole offers to help Willie get back home and they hit the highway hitchhiking back to Broome and catching rides with a handful of colorful strangers including Teutonic tourist Slippery Tom Budge and flower child Annie Missy Higgins. But as Willie and Uncle Tadpole make their way across the continent Father Benedictus is in hot pursuit determined not to let a truant slip from his grasp. BRAN NUE DAE was adapted from the hit stage musical by Jimmy Chi that was a major box-office success and multiple award winner in Australia during the early '90s; the film version received its word premiere at the 2009 Melbourne Film Festival where it received the Audience Award for Best Film.