European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse On mountains of the Moon rated r. A mole Hill of a movie. But a very Classy Molehill. Bob Rafelson Best known for More intimate films five easy pieces tackles an epic the True " Story of the 19th Century explorers sir Richard Burton and John Manning Speke and their heroic search for the source of the Nile. The movie shifts Between their torturous expeditions everything from unfriendly natives to unfriendly bugs and their return to London where the two have a bitter falling out Over who found what. The movie strives to be a thinking Man s epic and in Many ways it succeeds. Patrick Bergin Glen Are Well cast As the flamboyant. Burton and priggish Speke. But Rafelson s at tempt to comment on the White Man s Burden aspect of the safari mentality is a mistake like trying to talk about apartheid in an old Tarzan movie. Still this is the sort of invigorating big screen filmmaking we get too Little of. Even its flaws offer something different. Eleanor Ringel Cox news service bad influence rated r. Available on Ria Columbia Home video Rob Lowe finds his Niche As a spooky Playboy pitted against a financial analyst in this fast Lane suspense thriller. Co Star James Spader is Michael an ambitious mid level executive feeling pressured by his Fiancee Muffy and a corporate Nemesis when he Falls under the spell of the self assured Alex Lowean enigmatic stranger who takes his Side in fight. Before you can say less than Zero Alex introduces the Yuppie Naif to the thrills of under ground nightclubs nose Candy Drunken driving easy women in Black and convenience store robberies. By the time Michael realizes he s struck a bar gain with Al Diablo there s a dead Chippy in his bedroom and blood All Over his nine Iron. Like his counterpart in apartment Zero the terrified Alex regains his soul Only by turning his Mentor s own methods against him. The film is a surprisingly humorous Effort by director Curtis Hanson of the Hitchcock spooky the bedroom window. Rita Kempley Cox news service where the heart is rated r. This movie Star ring Dabney Coleman is All Over the place a kind of late capitalism parable of family bonding set against glimpses of the apocalypse full of Gur gling mythic currents and undigested or half chewed ideas but also Gritty with the crud of reality. Of it s painful going for anybody who remembers the Lovely ironies and exquisitely con trolled brisk Ness of the same director s John Boorman Hope and glory. Eleanor Ringel Cox news service Madhouse rated pg-13. If you took All the recent wretched Home and Hearth farces the Money pit the burbs Etc rolled them into one big Ball of bad jokes and threw them splat at the screen the result might be Madhouse. Two desperate to make movies to stars John Larroquette night court and Kirstie Alley cheers play a Yuppie couple suddenly plagued by House guests who won t go Home his gauche ugly cousins from new Jersey her whiny Gold digging sister. This movie s idea of a Good gag is a cat that keeps coming Back from the dead apparently Alley and Larroquette think people will pay to see them do on the big screen what they re already doing for free and doing better on the Small one. Eleanor Ringel Cox news service video Sleeper of the week High Hopes no rating available. Brit ish/1990 available on Academy entertainment. This ornery comedy Snipes at British materialism and insensitivity to its aging citizens in a biting look at a rather awful London family and their Odd acquaintances. Heather Tobias is a standout As the worst of the Bunch a hysterically conspicuous consumer who lives to barely keep up with the Joneses in Margaret Thatcher s England. Deedee Arrington Doke staff writer Dabney Coleman standing Center stars in where the heart videos were the top 10 videocassettes in . Rentals last week according to billboard Magazine. 1 the War of the roses lbs Fox. 2 steel magnolias Ria Columbia 3 internal affairs Paramount. 4 hard to kill Warner bad hers. 5 tango & Cash Warner 6 driving miss Daisy Warner 7 always Mca. 8 tremors Mca. 9 family business Ria Columbia. 10 the fabulous Baker boys , he top 10 videos sales were 1 the Little Mermaid Disney. 2 step by step new kids on the Block lbs. 3 teenage mutant ninja turtles super Rock steady family. 4 die hard lbs Fox. 5 teenage mutant ninja turtles Cowa Bunga shred head Ive. 6 top gun Paramount. 7 Honey i shrunk the kids Disney 8 Aero Smith things that go pump Geffen. 9 lethal weapon 2 Warner 1989 10 sexy lingerie ii Hob sunday August 26, 19go to plus Page 9
