European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Videos reviews videos fat Man and Little boy rated pg-13. A singular powerful experience fat Man and Little boy the Story of the making of the atomic bomb resists the temptation to turn into an anti nuke platform. Instead director Roland Joffe with Bruce Robinson his screenwriter from the killing Fields presents a Story with an almost documentary matter of fatness letting the events speak for themselves. What they allow for is the possibility that people May do evil without being evil. Paul Newman As Gen. Leslie Groves is Majestic feet of Clay acting and All the More Brilliant for being Cut perfectly to human scale. In smaller roles John Cusack Laura Dern Natasha Richardson and Bonnie Bedelia All make Strong moving contributions. However their work combined with Newman a Only serves As greater reason to lament Joffey a Choice of Dwight Schultz to play scientist j. Robert Oppenheimer. A stage actor making his film debut Schultz is stiff and act orly like an irredeemably tone deaf Singer he hits Only false notes. A Hal Hinson a Washington Post Harlem nights rated r. Paramount Home video wisely priced this Eddie Murphy disaster for the rental Market rather than for sales. Its hardly Worth the Low Cost of rental let alone the $90 or so you a have to spend if it were for Sale. Murphy who directed wrote and was executive producer of Harlem nights has a cast that includes some of the jewels of vaudeville film and television including Richard Pryor Della Reese Redd Foxx Danny Aiello and Arsenio Hall. But the movie is largely uninteresting and a turn off. The pacing is As slow As molasses and the dialogue when not peppered with obscenities is filled with lengthy explanations about what action the characters May or May not wish to take. Surprisingly its not the two foul mouthed bad boys of comedy who steal the show Pryor and Murphy but the women. Reese is fierce As Vera the Madam at Pryor s club. And it s Worth suffering through this film just to catch Vera a no. 1 whore played by Lela Rochon. She a a natural Beauty and a comedic Joy who has some of Judy Holliday a timing and Carole lombards Sauci Ness. She san actress to watch in the future. A los Angeles times Worth winning rated pg-13. This film is so bad it hurts. But then Tummy aches and Mark Harmon films go together like Moonshine and gut rot. Harmon would not be so hard to stomach if his acting improved from film to film. It does to it gets worse. Witness lets get Harry summer school the Presidio and stealing Home. As to which Harmon film is the worst it is no contest Worth winning. Harmon is a Weatherman who bets he can get engaged to three women within a month. He wins his bet but Only after smirking non Stop through this corny bedroom caper. A Max Mcqueen a Cox news service the fabulous Baker boys rated r. It lies somewhere Between a romantic comedy and dramatic musical and keeping us confused As to this films tone is Michelle Reiffer. She is a Smoky voiced Singer who revives an outdated lounge act. Her piano top rendition of making whoopee alone left critics panting. Memorable As that scene was it was not worthy of an Academy award. Yet Pfeiffer received a Best actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a Nail spitting nightclub Singer. Playing the Middle aged Brothers whose act is threatened by Pfeiffer a role As Susie Diamond Are Beau Bridges and his Little Bro Jeff. A m. M. A Cox news service Basket Case 2 rated r. What could Basket Case director Frank Henenlotter possibly say about your Basic Nice Guy and his bodiless twin that he did not already say in his absurd 1982 horror film not much. In Basket Case 2, Kevin Vanhentenryc returns As our average Joe with a not so average problem a pumpkin sized brother Given to murderous rampages. With More grotesque mutants than a dozen teenage mutant ninja Turtle films Basket Case 2 is Little More than a showcase for makeup Man Gabe Bartalos a Mastery of disfigured faces and deformed bodies. If you Are easily grossed out do not open this Basket. A m. M. A Cox news service Madeleine Stowe is a Worth below Jeff Bridges in a the fabulous Baker i twentieth Century Fox hese were the top 10 videocassettes in . 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