Buffalo Girls 1995  TV, 180 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Rod Hardy
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith, Sam Elliott, Gabriel Byrne, Peter Coyote, Tracey Walter, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, Jack Palance, Charlayne Woodard, John Diehl, Liev Schreiber, Russell Means
Calamity Jane (Anjelica Huston) falls in love with Wild Bill Hickok (Sam Elliott), but he is gunned down, leaving Calamity pregnant. She is then befriended by whorehouse madam Dora DuFran (Melanie Griffith) and gives her infant up for adoption to an English couple. What is a girl to do? Calamity Jane joins Buffalo Bill Cody's (Peter Coyote) Wild West Show, which just happens to be traveling to England where she might meet her daughter.
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December Boys 2007 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Rod Hardy
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Lee Cormie, Christian Byers, James Fraser, Jack Thompson, Teresa Palmer, Sullivan Stapleton, Victoria Hill, Max Cullen, Kris McQuade, Ralph Cotterill, Frank Gallacher, Paul Blackwell, Judi Farr, Carmel Johnson
Australian orphans Spit (James Fraser), Sparks (Christian Byers), Misty (Lee Cormie), and Maps (Daniel Radcliffe) were all born in the same month of December. This year they spend the Christmas holidays with retired naval officer Bandy McAnsh (Jack Thompson) and his wife Skipper (Kris McQuade) at their seaside home. While there, they meet a younger couple, Fearless and Teresa (Sullivan Stapleton and Victoria Hill), who the boys believe are planning to adopt one of them. Now–amidst swimming, sneaking cigarettes, motorcycle riding, and playing on the beach–tensions and competition rise among the December Boys.
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 High Noon 2000  PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Rod Hardy
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, Randy Birch, Reed Diamond, Maria Conchita Alonso, Dennis Weaver, Michael Madsen, August Schellenberg, David Lereaney, Matthew Walker
This TV remake of the 1952 classis is weak, but watchable, as Will Kane (Tom Skerritt) must stand alone against the man who he sent to jail and now seeks revenge.
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 Robinson Crusoe 1997 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
aka: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
Director: Rod Hardy, George Miller
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, William Takaku, Lysette Anthony, Ian Hart, Polly Walker, Martin Grace, James Frain, Sean Brosnan, Damian Lewis, Ben Robertson, Tim McMullan, Jim Clark
Daniel Defoe's classic tale of the shipwrecked Robinson Crusoe (Pierce Brosnan) fending for himself is retold in this film. After another shipwrecked man, whom Crusoe names Friday (William Takaku), is saved by Crusoe, the two learn how to survive on the remote island.
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Thirst 1979  R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Rod Hardy
Cast: Chantal Contouri, David Hemmings, Henry Silva, Max Phipps, Shirley Cameron, Rod Mullinar, Rosie Sturgess, Robert Thompson, Walter Pym, Lulu Pinkus, Amanda Muggleton, Val Christensen, Jacqui Gordon, Chris Milne, Glenys O'Brien
Kate (Chantal Contouri) is kidnapped by a cult that proclaims they are a superior race. The cult's food is sanitized blood from their "dairy farm," where the "cows" are humans that provide the blood to be processed. Kate is believed to be a descendent of the cult's founder, and it is hoped that she will become one of the group. A different kind of vampire film.
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| 1. Buffalo Girls (1995)
2. December Boys (2007)
3. High Noon (2000)
4. Robinson Crusoe (1997)
aka: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
5. Thirst (1979)
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