European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse On videos reviews Black rain rated r. Take one Maverick new York cop a Young vicious japanese gangster motorcycles two Gritty cities and More blood and Gore than most people would rather see. Add More than a few cliches. Stir Fry for two hours and five minutes. And you get Black rain. Red rain would have been More like it. This crime thriller directed by Ridley Scott of aliens and Blade runner Fame features a murder by stabbing another by Throat cutting a shooting death at least one machine gunning and the slashing of the hero. The Maverick cop has become a cliche but Michael Douglas takes it to extremes. He s so Mouthy and rude you re surprised his japanese counterparts Don t put him on the first 747 Back to new York with the Luggage. Most of the time the japanese speak Japa Nese. But toward the end they get subtitles. Also the japanese actors do speak English at some Points but in some cases it s still impossible to understand what they re saying. The Osaka Street scenes Are interesting and Ridley Scott s dark flashy sets Are up to his usually High standards. But this formula film is Way too violent and muddled. By Jonathan Oatis associated press sex lies and videotape. By Max Mcqueen Cox news service look who s talking rated pg-13. This All concept no conscience comedy stars Kirstie Alley As a single Mother in search of the perfect pop for her child the real dad George Segal is a married slime Ball. The kid in his fetal infant and toddler stages has a mind of his own and a voice Courtesy of Bruce Willis his Choice is Good hearted cabbie John Travolta. But you gotta Fig ure the filmmaker s telling you something consciously or not when her name is superimposed Over a toilet in the opening credits. Eleanor Ringel Cox news service Erik the Viking rated pg-13. On paper this film looks promising. Director Terry Jones premise involves a Viking who avoids plundering and pillaging by leaving to discover a new world. But the comedy is strained at Best Force fed at worst. No Surprise this not with Mickey Rooney cast As Eric s camera hugging a. Tim Robbins is in the title role. . Cox news service a dry White season rated r this is not bad for a first film. But Euthan palsy covers Little new ground on the apartheid Issue in this Story about a professor Donald Sutherland whose family is torn apart when he supports the Blacks cause. Marlon Brando s Brief appearance As an anti apartheid lawyer is breathtakingly cagey. . Cox news service Mem Mayer pictures above a dry White right Ted Danson in sex lies and videotape rated r. What a difference a title makes. Since its first appear Ance at the Cannes film festival in May 1989, sex lies and videotape has gotten a stagger ing amount of attention much of it unwarranted. Sex is not All that bad it s just not the Defini Tive cinematic commentary on modern sexuality that its title and reputation would Lead one to believe. James Spader in an effortless performance plays an aimless loner who returns to his Louisiana Hometown. He spends most of his Idle time videotaping women As he asks them about their sexual Tabit Crulie to sub rods crude it is not. For Soderbergh enriches this lowly film with astute observations about How our highly techno logical society has alienated people from a sense of self. But Soderbergh is no Dummy. He knew no one would attend a film titled sex and tempera ment in an alienating modern society. So he crowned his High minded achievement with a Low brow traffic stopping title. It worked. So does videos i 4 5 hese were the top 10 videocassettes in . Sales Lor the last week of april according to billboard Magazine. 1 Honey i shrunk the kids Disney. 2 lethal weapon 2 Warner 3 Indiana Jones and the last crusade Paramount. 4 teenage mutant ninja turtles Cowa Bunga shred head family. 5 new kids on the Block Hangin Tough live lbs 6 25x5 continuing adventures of rolling stones lbs 7 the wizard of of the fiftieth anniversary edition Mem a. 8 new kids on the Block Hangin Tough lbs 9 Bambi Disney. 10 teenage mutant ninja turtles Case of the killer pizzas family the top 10 video rentals were 1 Honey i shrunk the kids Disney. 2 Field of dreams Mca. 3 dead poets society touchtone. Parenthood Mca lethal weapon 2 Warner. 6 casualties of War Ria Columbia 7 an innocent Man touchtone. 8 the abyss lbs pox 9 Turner & Hooch Touchstone 10 Uncle Buck Universal City studios. Sunday May 6, 1990 to plus Page 9
