Rick Brough

“Disclosure Day” is directed by Steven Spielberg, who gave us alien contacts in the fabled “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E. T.” nearly half a century ago. The new film, written by Spielberg and David Koepp, is in large part a fast-paced intriguing thriller. Behind the action, the message of the movie is well-intentioned, but so-so. As the film starts, data analyst Daniel Kellner (played by Josh O’Connor) is in hot water.

In the new film “The Sheep Detectives”, Hugh Jackman stars as English farmer George Hardy, who is somewhat reclusive to his neighbours, but a kindly shepherd to his flock, who are raised for their wool, not for slaughter. He has given a name to each animal. And at twilight, he sits outside his trailer home, reading murder mysteries to his flock, who are—you would swear—an attentive audience.