European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse As King Ferdinand of Spain. A. 6. Czelno Man zoned out Pau a Shore the grating self hyping weasel of mtg sleep walks through the kind of film that makes us All think we could carve out a career in Hollywood. This is a painfully unfunny tale of two teen age stoners who find and defrost a Frozen Stone age peer and show a him the right moves for the 1990s. A tha cutting Edga colourless . Sweeney stars in this Flash dance of skates. It s a Cut and paste Job of skating routines and ice Cool love scenes Between Sweeney As an sex hockey Jock and Moira Kelly As a Bitchy figure skater training for the olympics. One Long Boring Low Grade mtg video. 8. Shining through this year s mis casting a award goes to the producer who thought Melanie Griffith could be believable As a world War ii Secretary who volunteers for a Covert Mission inside nazi Germany. Michael Douglas sleepwalk through his role As her Oss Boss and love interest. 9. Cuffs Christian Slater torpedoes a Low key but serviceable movie career with this Boorish tale of a High school dropout who gets involved in Law enforcement. Humor level when his Girlfriend tells him she s pregnant Slater s character skips town. Carelessly Trilling a got women to do places to 10. A stranger among us Griffith joins Stal tone in the record books As she portrays an allegedly hard nosed new York cop drawn into a Case involving the hasidic jewish Community. Hearing her Peep Quot assume the position scum a a almost makes the film Worth sitting through. But not quite. Dishonourable Mentley death becomes her twin peaks fire walk with me Cool world Beethoven Home alone 2, lethal weapon 3, or. Baseball mom and dad save the world 3 Good 1. The last of the Mohi cans a weak Overall Field this year allowed this tale of the nascent american Frontier to grab the top spot. It had All the right touches with Daniel Day Lewis As the resourceful Hunter Hawkeye Madeleine Stowe As the delectable Cora Munro lots of intrigue and spectacle and a colourful cast of thousands. 2. A few Good men Tom cruise comes of age in this engrossing tale of military Honor and betrayal As a goof off Navy lawyer doing courtroom Battle with crusty colonel Jack Nicholson. The old joker takes Large bites out of the scenery and is ably supported by Kevin Bacon and Demi Moore in a drama worthy of the Caine Mutiny. 3. Unforgiven Clint Eastwood puts a perfect Coda on his Long career As a Frontier screen legend with this revisionist Story of life death and redemption in the old West. Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman he in Eastwood construct a Gritty portrait of an Era that is often Overly romanticized in our col _ elective american memory 4. Basle inst net Gays picketed this twisted Saga of a bisexual Beauty who May or May not be a sociopathic murderer but audiences Geff enough of new sex Siren Sharon Stone As she dulled with cynical cop Michael Douglas. Her police interrogation scene was Worth the Price of admission. 5. Batman returns parents were shocked at the barely concealed psychosexual currents in this film but director Tim Burton takes no prisoners in using the venerable comics hero to explore the dark Side of the human soul. Memorable performances from Danny Devito As the Penguin and Michelle Pfeiffer As cat woman. 6# Dracula English actor Gary Oldman finally gets his due As the Toothy Star of Bram stokers classic novel of sexual repression in victorian England brought to the screen with customarily manic Dan by director Francis Ford Coppola. A visual feast of surrealistic images and special effects. T. Bob Roberts it did t make a big splash but this trenchant satire offers plenty to savor for Politi Cal junkies in Tim Robbins portrayal of a Folk Singer politician who comes on like a gop version of Bob Dylan but is really a crypt fascist. This film gleefully skewers All major players in the political process. 9. Alien Many longtime fans Felt let Down by the third chapter in this series but its stripped Down veneer harkens Back to the kind of spooky Low key chills of the original As opposed to the slam Bam theatrics of the second chapter a fitting epitaph for Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood Are right on target in the Western Anfor Giryn. Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox curtain Call for Allen Basle instinct Stone Douglas. Ctm Rock Moore cruise in a few Good men. Warner Broa Pfeiffer meets Keaton in Batman returns Jong suffering space farce Ellen Ripley 9. A Lagaw of to nor own Gena Davis shines in this nostalgic took at the women s pro baseball league that existed for roughly a decade in the late 40s and 50s. Tom Hanks is a riot As the Drunken washed up manager who can to seem to contain his outrage at being forced to baby sit a Bunch of High Strung female ballplayers.10. Tim hand that reeks the Cradle acre its called it misogynist and derivative a and it probably was a Little of both a but Rebecca de Mommy offers genuine chills As a demented Nanny hellbent on a Mission of twisted revenge against the woman she blames for ruining her life Annabella Sciorra. Honor Abl Mantrom the player Aladdin City of Joy singles sneakers Malcolm a Honey Moon in vegas my Cousin Omny hero. A. A 0 Madonna in the swing of a league of their own. I january 3.1993 sunday a Page 5
