Inspector Morse

15 Jan 1998

During the 1970s and 80s, all-star cast movies got a bad name: titles like Death on the Nile, Escape to Victory, and Murder On the Orient Express never managed to give any of the stars a real...

8:15PM

Elephant heartbreak

25 Sep 1997

We'll be all right in our house tonight because I have a huge pile of videos to catch up on, but for the rest of you, slim pickings indeed on the terrestrials.

9:43AM

A sorry royal story

27 Nov 1995

FIVE years I've been sitting here waiting for something decent to watch on a Monday evening and now two programmes come along at once.

12:48PM

Wartime fable

6 Nov 1995

THE big-budget, high-powered World War II espionage thriller Where Eagles Dare (Pearl, 9.30pm) is your archetypal schoolboy adventure, rather unattractively photographed, but containing the usual...

1:40PM

18 Sep 1995

SALLY Field and Ron Silver star in A Woman Of Independent Means (Pearl, 9.30pm).

This is one of those spanning-the-generations mini-series in which everyone's hair turns...

8:02AM

Stone shows his class

7 Aug 1995

OLIVER Stone's JFK (World, 9.35pm) might have been a complete disaster.

7:27AM

Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Off the Shelf

HE made a name for himself as the reporter with a cock-eyed view of life in the South China Morning Post's Lai See column. Nury Vittachi, aka the Little Brown Writing Machine, author of books on...

10:39AM

An ode case for Inspector Morse

THE WAY THROUGH THE WOOD By Colin Dexter (Macmillan, $255) BEER-SWILLING, Wagner-snob Inspector Morse really ought to have been christened Inspector Morose.

6:42AM