European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment top videos of 1992sales 1 fantasia Disney 2 101 dalmatians Disney 3 tie Jungle Book Disney 4 Robin Hood Prince of thums Warner 5 Cheryl Tunesi a new attitude Fox 6 Fleet. Goes West Mca-universal7 1992 Playboy video playmate Calendar unionist .8 Home alone Fox �T�9 the rescuers Down under disney10 Playboy sexy lingerie in unidist11 Hook Columbia tristan 12 ghost paramount13 the silence of the lambs orion14 Penthouse Satin end lace avision15 Wayne s world Paramount rentals1 Thelma a Louise Mem a ,2 the silence of the lambs Orion 3 the Fisher King Columbia tristar4 City slickers Columbia tristar5 Bac draft Mca Universal 6 Cape fear Mca-universal7 the hand that rocks the Cradle a Hollywood 8 father of the Bride Touchstone 9 deceived Touchstone 10 what about Bob touchstone11 Boyz n the Hood Columbia tristan 12 the last boy Seoul Warner 13 dead again Paramount 14 Frankla amp Johnny paramount15 Point break Fox _ television the top 10 stateside to shows Lor dec. 21-27, according to the . Nielsen co. Season to Date ranking or an x for first time showing is in parentheses 1 2 60 minutes cbs2 7 monday night football now York jews at Miami abc3 x movie mrs. Arris goes to Paris cbs4 7 Home improvement 5 1 Roseanne .6 5 murder she wrote lbs 7 44 dateline 6 14 evening Shade lbs 9 x movie parenthood lbs 10 4 coach a a a a a a a Paramount. Chris Rock is Bony to and Eddie Murphy plays the starring role of Marcus Graham in Boomerang video reviews by Max Mcqueen Cox news service Boomerang 1992. Paramount. R. Amid great fanfare Boomerang was heralded As showing the a new improved and enlightened Quot Eddie Murphy. A something must have gotten by me because the a one track sex triggered Persona that has carried Murphy for 10 years is still present if unaccounted for in Boomerang. Less gun play and More foreplay is the Only difference Between Murphy a smug lady killer Here and the ones seen in Beverly Hills cop and 48 hours. As a marketing director for a cosmetics firm Murphy trades his guns for spritz bottles and feigns to be at the mercy of women. But you have to wonder Why and How what with the likes of Robin Givens who hits the screen with at the Deadpan disinterest of a runway Model and Eartha Kitt who embarrasses herself As a sex crazed cosmetics executive. V As an Art director who a inexplicably devoted to Murphy a ladies Man Halle Berry offers the Only Trace of a human life form in Boomerang. But director Reginald Hudlin negates Berry a contributions by surrounding her with imbeciles straight out of Amos a no Andy. Thole looking for a new and improved Eddie Murphy will have to throw Back Boomerang Kafka 1991. Miramar. Pg-i3. Jeremy Irons did no to need an Oscar to prove he s one of the Best actors around. He has been proving that since his 1980 debut in Nijinski right up to his 1990 Academy award winning form As Claus von Dutrow in reversal of Fortune. Irons started 1992 with he release of Kafka a bold and daring stroke of filmmaking that Snow on video. Seeing As Kafka was made by Steven Soderbergh its unique style and look set in Prague Czechoslovakia will Surprise no one who saw the director s first film the groundbreaking sex lies and videotape. As a writer and philosopher Franz Kafka dwelt on the minutiae of Modem life and How it reduces a person to nothingness. Not the kind of material that has directors lining up in droves. But Soderbergh does a masterful Job of making a life and a film out of Kafka s obsession with the de humanization of people caused by political and Industrial forces at the dawning of the 20th Century. Complementing Irons cerebral tour de Force Are supporting performances by sir Alec guinness Joel Grey Ian Holm and Jerreti Krabbe. As the object of Kafka s Distant Devotion Theresa Russell strikes the films Lone sour note. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1992. Fox. Pg-13. This would not have been such a disappointment t if director fran Yuzui Hadnot set up film goers for a campy Romp through Vampire its title and its cheer leading title character Kristy Swanso Buffy the Vampire Slayer had satire written All Over it. But Yuzui cannot decide _ whether to laugh at or with Joss Whedon s tale about a cheerleader Tum cd Vampire killer. This schizophrenia behind the camera has the Good Luke Perry and Donald Sutherland the bad Rutger Hauer and the ugly Paul Reubens a k a pee wee Herman wandering aimlessly through Buffy in search of a reason for being. That or a paycheck. Out on a limb 1992, Universal. Pm. Surely a Lack of funds is the Only thing that made Matthew Broderick make out on a limb also known As Welcome to Buzzsaw. Not Only is this re l Der less laugh less comedy one of Broderick s worst films. It also ranks As one of the worst of 92. Broderick is a big time stockbroker who deigns to visit his Small town Small minded relatives. His Short stay turns into a Long Nightmare when he loses a Wallet containing the phone number to a career making business s usually reliable director Francis Veber went out on a limb Here and Cut himself to the Quick. Big Otros done to cry a a they out even 1991. New line. Pm. Dies is a poor new title for step kids which had a limited theatrical release in october 1991, obviously the film s producers Are hoping the new title will attract teen age girls to the video. Those teens wont be let Down. Director Joan Micklin Silver has Coyie up with a passable comedic commentary on the problems faced by extended families. This comes to Light through the narrative of a 15-year-Otd girl Hillary Wolf As she notes the comings and goings mostly goings of stepparents in Laws and out Laws on a summer vacation. Big girls is All the More watchable because of a tight knit cast headed by Griffin Dunne Patricia Kalember David Strathairn and Margaret Whitton. They Arentt living a wonderful life. But they Are working at it. Page 14 a sunday january 3, 1993 7 a a a a a Quot a t a a t v a. I
