Film News
Four Weddings and A Funeral (from the writer of Blackadder and Mr Bean) takes a humorous swipe at British behaviour at — you guessed it — four weddings and a funeral. Starring Andie McDowell and Hugh Grant (Bitter Moon) and featuring Rowan Atkinson as a priest, it’s quite a hoot. Starts June 10 . . . Reality Bites (Winona Ryder’s new movie, boys) starts June 3. This is one of those hip, twenty-something flicks in which Winona decides to make a video about her friends to alleviate the boredom of working in television. Her friends are slackers — they went to college but are working in shopping malls or spend their days watching 70s reruns on TV. Starring Ethan Hawke, girls . . . Janet Jackson makes her screen debut in Poetic Justice, out July 1. This one sounds a tad earnest. Janet is a beautician who writes poetry to escape painful memories. She meets Lucky the mailman who’s struggling to get out of the ghetto via rap music. Together they find hope and true love . . . The Air Up There stars Kevin (Footloose) Bacon as a basketball coach who goes to Africa to find the athlete who will clinch his team. One of those feel-good sports comedy movies they love to wheel out in the school holidays. Directed by Paul Glaser, who once starred in Starsky and Hutch. . .Boxing Helena is being re-edited yet again so still no local release date, ditto Even Cowgirls Get the Blues . . .no such artistic dilemmas with Naked Gun 331/3 the Final Insult. Cornin’ at ya July 1 . . .release dates have been postponed until September for Wolf starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer and Speed starring the lovely Keanu Reeves. Airheads (a comedy about a heavy metal band who kidnap a radio station to get their music played) should be out in October. Something to look forward to in August, Threesome, starring Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin and Josh Charles in a college student love triangle . . . and for all you high-art fans, Peter Greenaway’s “pious and blasphemous, wordly and mystical” new film The Baby of Macon will pop up in a film festival near you soon. DONNA YUZWALK
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Rip It Up, Issue 202, 1 June 1994, Page 44
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356Film News Rip It Up, Issue 202, 1 June 1994, Page 44
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