May 2001 Volume 82 Number 5 "serving the protectors"
The Mummy Returns
by Mike Horsfall

Those with a passion for adventure movies will delight in The Mummy sequel. Featuring many of the original cast, including Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, should follow the huge worldwide success of the not-so-original original when it hits the big screen this month.

The Mummy Returns is set in 1935, 10 years after the events of the first film. Rick O’Connell (Fraser) is now married to Evelyn (Weisz), and the couple is raising their nine-year-old son, Alex.

When a chain of events finds the corpse of Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) resurrected in a British Museum, the mummy again walks the Earth in search of eternal life. When he clashes with a more powerful force the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Expect The Mummy Returns to again feature some awesome graphical treats – remember the scarabs – and some quality action entertainment.

For the opportunity to win a double pass to The Mummy Returns put your details on the back of an envelope and send it to Mummy Comp, SA Police Journal (168).

Thirteen Days

For 13 extraordinary days in October 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. Across the globe, people anxiously awaited the outcome of a harrowing political, diplomatic and military confrontation that threatened to end in an apocalyptic nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviet Union.

In Thirteen Days, the power and peril of the American presidency is dramatically explored by director Roger Donaldson, who captures the urgency, suspense and paralyzing chaos of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The alarming escalation of events during those fateful days brought to the fore such public figures as Robert McNamara, Adlai Stevenson, Theodore Sorenson, Andrei Gromyko, Anatoly Dobrynin, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Acheson, Dean Rusk, and General Curtis LeMay. Many others – politicians, diplomats and soldiers – were on the front line of the showdown. In Thirteen Days, we see all of these people – and, above all, President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby – through the eyes of a trusted presidential aide and confidante, Kenneth P. O’Donnell (Kevin Costner).

The film features a memorable ensemble, including Kevin Costner as Kenny O’Donnell, Bruce Greenwood as John F. Kennedy, Steven Culp as Robert F. Kennedy, Dylan Baker as Robert McNamara, Michael Fairman as Adlai Stevenson, Henry Strozier as Dean Rusk, Frank Wood as McGeorge Bundy and Kevin Conway as General Curtis Lemay.

For the opportunity to win a double pass to Thirteen Days put your details on the back of an envelope and send it to Thirteen Comp, SA Police Journal (168).

15 Minutes

Never before in history have fame and the law been so closely, and so dangerously, aligned. With today’s insatiable demand for high-octane television news, everyone from criminals and cops to lawyers and politicians has joined the ranks of attention-grabbing celebrities. Everyone from thieving low-lives to the President’s lawyers vies for a shot at the limelight.

We might fear crime, tragedy and chaos, but in today’s world, they bring ratings, money and power.

So, just how far will society’s most desperate people go in order to get their “fifteen minutes”? And just how willing is the public to watch? These questions hurtle to the fore in John Herzfeld’s smart, searing thriller, 15 Minutes, which brings the edge-of-your-seat thriller into the in-your-face Media Age.

At the centre of 15 Minutes is a New York City double murder that must be solved. This is the thriller as seen through an eye-popping new lens – that of the media’s hunt for shocking imagery, regardless of the cost. As the cops chase the murderers in 15 Minutes, the media chases the cops, and the whole thing fuels an escalating firestorm.

Staring alongside two-time Academy Award-winner, Robert De Niro, is Kelsey Grammer, Melina Kanakaredes, Avery Brooks and Karel Roden.

For the opportunity to win a double pass to 15 Minutes, put your details on the back of an envelope and send it to Fifteen Comp, SA Police Journal (168).

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