CINEMA FILE

Rip It Up, Issue 177, 1 April 1992, Page 32

CINEMA FILE

Congratulations to last months winners of the FREDDY'S DEAD contest —having seen the film Freddy may be dead but we bet the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET will continue... still going (Andrew) strong is THE COMMITMENTS, the story of a bunch of Irishmen who get a band together. A great film, it will no doubt keep running well up into Soundtrack Volume 3... new this month is SHINING THROUGH starring 'working girl' Melanie Griffiths as a novice spy behind enemy lines. It's a romantic spy thriller with Michael Douglas as her control officer and lover... Christina Applegate makes her starring debut as "Swell" (you figure it out), the oldest of five rambuncious kids whose mother takes a vacation in DON'T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER'S DEAD. Left in the care of an elderly babysitter who expires, the kids find life 'home alone' isn't all its cracked up to be... FATHER OF THE BRIDE is as funny as it's cracked up to be. Steve Martin can't cope when 'daddy's little girl' wants to get married... rapper Ice T returns to the big screen in RICHOCHET, also starring Denziel Washington. Can't tell you much more as we weren't invited to the preview, but the trailer looks nice... another excellent trailer belongs to NZ Director Geoff Murphy's new film FREEJACK. Emelio Estevez plays the race driver catapulted into the the year 2009. Also starring Anthony Hopkins and rocker Mick Jagger as the bounty hunter on Estevez's tail. The film opens NZ wide Easter weekend... and honourary NZ director Sam Pilsbury also shows us what he's been up to

since returning to his homeland. ZAND ALEE is a hot and spicy tale set in the american South, starring Nicholas Cage... director Steven Spielberg's films are so overhyped the US critics always pooh-pooh his work when it finally arrives on the screen. HOOK is actually most enjoyable, if not 30 minutes too long. Robin Williams plays the mid-30s Peter Pan who has forgotten who he was, even when transported back to Never Never Land. Dustin Hoffmann is the

villainous Captain Hook and Julia Roberts is Tinkerbell. Flawed but fun... having realised there's a limit to how high the polo-neck uniforms can go, the cast of STAR TREK 6: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY have agreed to neatly wrap up the movie series. Leonard (Spock) Nimoy directs and William (Capt. Kirk) Shatner gets to go toungue to tongue with the beautiful Iman (Bowie's girlfriend) ... Star Trek 6 also features a cameo (ie walk in, say one line, walk out)

from one of the stars of MOBSTERS. We wont say which one but Christian Slater, Patick Dempsey, Richard Grieco and Costas Mandylor play four young immigrant kids who become the legendary gangsters all those other films are about. As such it's good to see, although a tad ammoral... also good to see is the alleged steroid abuser Hulk Hogan back on the big screen in SUBURBAN COMMANDO, certainly better than his last cinematic outing (we

can't even remember its name)... and last but not least is the film named after the song which inspired the butter commercials we hate so much. MY GIRL opens May Ist starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Akroyd, and Macauley Culkin as the boy-next-door. The girl in question is played by Anna Chlumsky who is obviously going to be the next big thing in child acting. Any film that can make Nick D'Angelo cry has got to be worth seeing.