CINEMA FILE

Rip It Up, Issue 184, 1 November 1992, Page 38

CINEMA FILE

If you want my advice: see Boomerang for a some really great interpersonal humour. Critics have been unkind to Eddie Murphy's latest but they’ve missed the point. I guess it’s a black thing that white middle class critics can’t follow, (okay, the ending is a little hokey)... to underscore that point the critics are all raving about The Footstep Man which is my pick for the most pretentious piece of crap to come out this year. Possibly the decade! . . . still screening nationwide Universal Soldier — the perennial story of technology gone bad starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren ... Last seen in the Anglo version of Boys In The Hood, Morgan Freeman returns in Power of One. It’s one of those sweeping pulp saga’s about South Africa of the type Wilbur Smith writes about, but effective none-the-less (my flatemates cried).. . ‘violent and morally confused’ says the NZ Herald. Out of my way mate, I’m off to see Ray Liotta as the Psycho Cop in Unlawful Entry, also starring Kurt Russell . . . Knight Moves stars Highlander Christopher Lambert, the fetching Diane Lane, and the comely Tom Skerritt in a search for a deeply disturbed serial killer... Fried Green Tomatoes is not the dyke action thriller I was promised, it’s instead a poignant story of friendship and love, featuring Mary Stuart Masteron and Kathy Bates... for more of Kathy Bates see At Play in the Fields of the Lord which features an excellent cast including Tom Waits and Tom Berenger... for the NZ premiere of Derek Jarman’s unique visualisation of Christopher Marlowe's play check out Edward 2at the Paramount Theatre. Keep an eye out for a special appearance from Annie Lennox... something less cerebral but issue-orientated none-the-less, Thunderheart, stars

Vai Kilmer as the blue-eyed FBI blonde with Native American blood sent as the token Indian to investigate a murder on the reservation. After a couple of tokes on the peacepipe . . . Laura Dern takes the lead role in Rambling Rose, as a horny rambunctious teenager during the American depression ... equally horny, but not quite pulling it off is Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy. Drew has designs on Roseanne’s Sarah Gilbert's dad, who should’ve known the gal is jailbait... NZ director Roger Donaldon is back with White Sands, starring Mickey Rourke, and Madonna’s latest screenfuck Willem Dafoe. The film promises passion, sex, and betrayal . . .

NICK D'ANGELO