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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 (Mall outside) Brain Candy (R) What would it be like if the whole country was made up of the same five people repealed over & over again, all on Prozac?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 ATTENTION ten The Visual Arts Division of the University Union is now accepting applications for the Ninth Annual Student Photography Show and for 1996-1997 Tate Student Center Gallery Exhibit Space Applications are availaDle at the Tate Center Information Desk or Room 153 of the Tate Center. For further information, Call 542-6396. universityj St iMli'nt f'ro(|r;iriuuin<y (to.arc! Visual Arts TATE STUDENT CENTER GALLERY a gallery for the students by the students tc pm J ® t&J ^ Si* sui> Recollections 4 Sunset Swimsuits Sold as separates Tops Petite thru 3SE Bottoms Petite thru XL -4 4- 255 E. Clayton • 549-9680 TFjTTTyrnfyrr J$(Mr BLU L PRINT COPY SHOP WE NOW SELL ZIP 100, JAZZ & SYQUEST135 DRIVES AND DISKS 269 W. Dougherty St. 548-0656 10 April lO, 1996 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 HYDE QUARTET and from New Orleans STRAWBERRY PRESENTS... At the Atomic Fri, April 12 Show starts at 10... so be there early!!!
