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All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (G) An easy
vis; to warp your kids' world view.
Znarlie, the protagonist dog, is in
Heaven, but hates it because, get this.
“It's too heavenly here" (read: boring).
And apparently Hitler's dog would have
gone to Heaven because, like the title
says, even bad ones are up there (ex
cept your occasional few who sell their
souls to Satan who, as we always sus
pected, is a cat). Charlie gets a break
from the pastel monotony ol Paradise
to go on a mission to search the streets
ot San Francisco tor Gabriel's horn. Very
weird theology here: In the end Charlie’s
Heavenly reward is that he gets to stay
on Earth. (Beechwood)
Babe (G) Do all pigs go to Hog Heaven?
Somebody should make a movie about
l hat. (Alps)
The Birdcage (R) In Miami's South
Beach, amidst a sea ot mostly unclothed
in-line skaters and above a strip of drag
clubs, live Armand and Albert (Robin
Williams & Nathan Lane). One day,
Armand's son shows up to announce
that he is marrying the daughter ot an
ultraconservative Senator (Gene Hack-
man) and has invited her family down
to meet the folks. So Armand, Albert and
their maid Agador put on their best
show. Tons of fun! (Mall outside)
Brain Candy (R) What would it be like
if the whole country was made up of the
same five people repealed over & over
again, all on Prozac? Like a full-length
feature film by the Kids in the Hall. (Mall
Inside)
Braveheart (R) Here il is: the Best Pic
ture of the 68th annual Academy
Awards, a Scottish epic made by an
Australian living in America. Mel Gibson
snagged Best Director, too, plus three
other random awards. So maybe you
should see it. (Beechwood)
The Bridges of Madison County
(PG-13) Really good acting and losing
most of the lame dialogue from the book
make this movie a very decent choice
for $1.50. (Alps)
Broken Arrow (R) With only two
people getting chopped up by a heli
copter blade and others falling under a
train and getting thrown into a fire, this
is one of John Woo's less violent mov
ies. (Mall Outside)
Dead Man Walking (R) The Academy
awarded Susan Sarandon Best Actress
for her role as Sister Helen Prejean, a
nun fighting against the death penalty
and for the soul of a murderer. Sean
Penn, who was himself nominated for
Best Actor (alas unsuccessfully) plays
Matthew Poncelet, the eerily smug death
row inmate. (Beechwood)
Executive Decision (R) A nerve-
wracking race-against-the-clock, must-
save-everybody-in-the-hijacked-plane-
from-the-nerve-gas-bomb-in-midair-
aclion-adventure-sort of thing. Kurt
Russell is so smooth he can save the
country and pick up the stewardess at
the same time. (Beechwood)
A Family Thing (PG) A middle-aged
Southern white good ol' boy (Robert
Duvall) learns that everything's relative
when he's introduced to his black half-
brother (James Earl Jones).
(Beechwood)
Faithful (R) Chazz Palminteri, besides
being in every third movie made this
year, also got his screenplay produced.
And its actually good. Chazz plays a
hitman who gets chatty with his victim
(Cher) while waiting for the death sig
nal from her husband (Ryan O'Neal). En
tertaining dialogue and fun confusion
as you try to figure out who's lying, who's
in control, and who's been faithful.
(Beechwood)
Fargo (R) Yessiree Bob. Minnesota.
Where the women are strong (and smart
and very pregnant, in the case of our
heroine Frances McDormand), the men
are good-looking (except for the funny
looking ones like our criminal Steve
Buscemi), and the children are above
average. Well, with that last bit it's diffi
cult to tell—Ihe only child in the movie
just whines through it because some
one has momnapped his mother. I think
it's the policepeople in Brainerd, Minn.,
who are above average, because they
actually solve a homicide. Yep, a dark
comedy from the Coen Brothers, you
betcha. (Mall Inside)
Fear (R) Nicole, like all l6 : year-old
girls, yearned for a man who was strong
and sensitive and cared about her more
than anything else in Ihe world, but she
got Marky Mark gone psychopathic.
First love becomes deadly obsession,
the plot that will not die. (Mall Outside)
Flirting With Disaster (R) Director
David 0. Russell, the man who made
incest fun ("Spanking The Monkey"),
takes on adoption, penile abnormalities
and Mary Tyler Moored Wonderbra. Ben
Stiller drags wife Patricia Arquette, their
nameless newborn and adoption
agency-social worker Tea Leoni around
to search for his biological parents.
(Beechwood)
Girl 6 (R) The newest Spike Lee Joint.
Girl 6 is a phone-sex operator/strug
gling actress in NY looking for sell-re
alization amidst the fantasies. (Mall Out
side)
Happy Gilmore (PG) Back again to
destroy more golf courses and waste
more of your lime. (Alps)
Hellraisen Bloodline (R) The clever
script, moody direction and powerhouse
acting from Clive Barker's original film
is long gone. It has been replaced by
another mediocre Peter Atkins script
(he's written all three sequels), Beauti
ful Model Types (instead of Real Human
Being Types), and is bad enough that
the director (Kevin Yagher) took his
name oft the credits and replaced il with
a pseudonym. (Mall Inside)
Homeward Bound 2 (G) Animals talk
ing, but don't expect Babe quality here
— it's more like animals lelepathing.
Cultures clash when housepels meet up
with street dogs in San Francisco (no
kidding, that's the plot). Friendships
form and the Michael J. Fox-dog falls
in love. (Therets just something inher
ently weird about hearing dogs say "I've
never felt this way about anyone be
fore.') Rest assured the pels get back to
their humans just fine. You'll laugh out
loud, not because it's funny but because
it’s ridiculous. (Beechwood)
Jamon, JamonTragifarce about class
clashes, sex and food ("Jamon" literally
refers to "ham" and idiomatically to...
ah... "meat") in a Spanish country vil
lage. Subtilled, so don't forget your
glasses.(Tate)
Manhattan (R) Woody Allen's com
ment on the lives and loves of quirky
characters in New York City circa 1979.
Endlessly ripped off by later romantic
comedies. Go see this original. (Tate)
Mighty Aphrodite (R) Woody Allen's
comment on the lives and loves of
quirky characters in New York City circa
1995 (is there any other Woody Allen
plot?) but with a Greek chorus. With
Mira Sorvino, who won Best Support
ing Actress for the whiniest performance
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ever. (Georgia Theatre, Tate)
Oliver and Co. (G) Disney, under pres
sure from Ihe release of All Dogs... and
not having any new singing dog mov
ies of its own, has re-released an old
one. (Mall Outside)
Primal Fear (R) The movie marketers
got together and decided since they've
already used up "fatal + a noun" and
"basic + a noun" they should give this
title a fry. What would be a primal fear
anyway, being eafen by a dinosaur?
Whatever. The name has nothing what
soever lo do with it, but it's a legal sus
pense thriller-type thing with Richard
Gere as a hotshot defense lawyer in a
bizarre murder trial. Filled wilh flashy
but predictable courtroom scenes and
ends with a twist lhaf will give you
nightmares. (Mall Inside)
Sergeant Bilko (PG) Funny men
Sieve Martin. Dan Ackroyd and Phil
Hartman learn up in a comedy about
Ihe Army, which will neither confirm
nor deny the existence of Ihe movie.
(Beechwood)
Thin Line Between Love and Hate
(R) Sort of the flip side of Waiting to
Exhale. Playboy Martin Lawrence lusts
after beautiful Lynn Whitfield who
transforms into a obsessed stalker
when he tries to break if off.
(Beechwood)
Touch of Evil (R) Orson and Zsa Zsa
and Charlton and friends do 1958
lilm noir: B&W, funky camera angles,
and a Mancini score. (Tale)
Up Close and Personal (PG-13)
Michelle Pfeiffer plays an aspiring
young journalist with ambition but no
direction. Enter ever-lhe-ladies-man
Robert Redford who grooms her for
"the networks' and pushes her up
ward while his own career (reefalls.
This movie doesn't necessarily have
much new to offer us. but it is a slick,
calculated and well-made love story,
if you like that sort of thing. (Mall
Outside)
with very special
guests from Atlanta
THE JOHNNY
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and from New Orleans
STRAWBERRY
PRESENTS...
At the Atomic
Fri, April 12
Show starts at 10...
so be there early!!!