Today’s number one film:

Quigley Down Under (John Hill/1990/Australia-USA/ Western/ 119 mins/PG), 12 midday Fox Classics. Watch this if you liked Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Ballad of Cable Hogue or Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Its constituent parts ought not to add up to much: in the equation of Tom Selleck + the Western + the Aussie Outback, it’s the Outback that has the highest value.

Stories of Our Lives (Jim Chuchu/ 2015/ Kenya-South Africa/ Drama/ 62 mins/ English and French, with English subtitles) 2pm, The Little Carib Theatre, Woodbrook.

IN THE WEEK of the 26th anniversary of Trinidad’s bloody botched Islamist coup attempt and in the wake of that holy Islamist Bastille Day mowing-down of children by the Dump Truck of God, it’s deeply refreshing to see a Trinidadian court, even if only a common or garden one, order a security company to pay a pile of money to a former guard, who was sacked for wearing a sack: after her conversion to Islam, she put on hijab instead of uniform headwear.

The Africa Film Trinidad & Tobago Festival 2016 opens at the Central Bank Auditorium at 6.30pm tonight, with its major programme running over the weekend. BC Pires recommends the opening film vigorously. Lamb (Yared Zeleke/ 2015/ Ethiopia/ Drama / 94 mins/ Amharic with English subtitles / Rating unavailable but suitable for all ages) 6.30pm Central Bank Auditorium, Port of Spain.

Two strong, infrequently-aired documentaries lead but, if BC on TV could be sure of English subtitles, two foreign films on Fox Cinema (White God [Hungary, Indy thriller], 7pm, Phoenix [German, Holocaust], 10.45pm) would have gone in at #2 and #3 respectively and the superb Palestinian thriller Omar (9am MaxP) at #1. An exceptional day for wide-ranging film choice almost makes it not worth mentioning the Walking Dead marathon on AMC (starting predawn) or the good Star Wars films before VII, i.e., IV (6.17am), V (8.35am) & VI (10.59am) on Space. The DirecTV channel also serves up a couple of aces for indy (The Killers 2pm) and heavy rock (Soundgarden, 3pm) lovers.

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