Crusty, crafty British barrister James Kavanagh (John Thaw) fluctuates between defender and prosecutor in the four movie-length episodes comprising the first season of Kavanagh Q.C. In the opener, "Nothing But the Truth," Kavanagh defends an accused rapist, while in the second episode, "Heartland," he switches gears to prosecute a self-styled ...
John Thaw returns as wily British barrister James Kavanagh as Kavanagh Q.C. enters its second season. The first of the year's six feature-length episodes is "True Commitment," in which Kavanagh tries to sift the truth out of a case involving the daughter of a Jewish businessman, a plot to murder a neo-Nazi, and the contradictory eyewitness ...
Gillian Armstrong directed this quietly bittersweet and coldly ironic examination of the death throes of a crumbling marriage. Set in the lush summer light of Sydney, the film examines the dying marriage of Beth (Lisa Harrow), a middle-aged writer living with her French husband J.P. (Bruno Ganz) and her teenage daughter Annie (Miranda Otto). Beth ...
The first episode of Kavanagh Q.C.'s third season is "Mute of Malice," in which high-profile British barrister James Kavanagh (John Thaw) is saddled with a client who is unable to speak -- literally -- after confessing to fratricide. Next on the docket is "Blood Money," wherein Kavanagh prosecutes a surgeon who loses a patient under highly ...
This feature-length dramatization of James Herriot's best-seller was issued by EMI as a big-screen theatrical release in England, but debuted on NBC as a telemovie in the United States, February 4, 1975. It stars Simon Ward as Herriot in his early days as a veterinarian. The story picks up in 1937, with Herriot's first assignment as assistant to ...
An unexpected and ironic twist caps barrister James Kavanagh's (John Thaw) defense of a doctor accused of murder in "Memento Mori," the opening episode of Kavanagh Q.C.'s fourth season. The eponymous hero subsequently returns to his home town of Bolton to unravel a confusing case of infanticide in "Care in the Community." Next up, Kavanagh tries ...
The second sequel to the 1976 horror hit The Omen finds Damien Thorn assuming the full mantle of the Antichrist and preparing for a final, all-out battle with "the Nazarene." Now in his thirties, Damien (Sam Neill) has elevated the family business, Thorn Industries, into the world's biggest multinational corporation. A little bit of black magic ...
The fifth and last season of Kavanagh Q.C. begins with the first of its four episodes, "Previous Convictions," in which prominent barrister James Kavanagh (John Thaw) risks public scorn by defending a woman whose sexual peccadillos may have brought about a tragic airplane accident. Next up is "The More Loving One," wherein a recovering drug addict ...
In this uneven Kiwi action-adventure with a few plot holes here and there, two Americans get into trouble when they accept a job delivering some dangerous cargo and then spend the rest of their time escaping the bad guys. Scientist Christine Rubin (Lisa Harrow) steals a biological weapon in the form of a deadly virus, intending to hand it over to ...
Premiering on American television on December 29, 1981, From a Far Country: Pope John Paul II was originally an Italian/British coproduction, made in cooperation with Film Polski. Actually, we see very little of the Pope -- in fact, John Paul II (played by Cezary Morawski) is not yet in his papal robes when we first meet him as a Polish youth of ...
Writer-director Jonathan Nossiter's first feature film is a moody exploration of assaults upon, and shifts in, personal identity. The movie's action all takes place on a Sunday in a poor section of the New York City borough of Queens. Oliver (David Suchet) is a newly homeless middle-aged man who was downsized out of his job as a mid-level ...
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