BY ANDREW MOODY When I was six years old, my Dad took me to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Like Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), the first of the Indy films, the movie concerned a race to discover a biblical artefact (in Raiders it was the Ark of the Covenant, in Last Crusade it was the Holy Grail) before the Nazis could … Continue reading Another Indiana Jones Movie?
BY ANDREW MOODY “Know why I hate scavengers?” Mother said “Allie, please,” and turned away. “Because they remind me of human beings.” Paul Theroux’s 1981 award winning novel about a teenage boy narrating the story of his increasingly unhinged father dragging the family to an uninhabited island in Honduras to build a new civilisation (he believes nuclear holocaust is due for the United States) was … Continue reading The Mosquito Coast
