European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Of Short i asks Apollo 13 to for three Days the world watched As three astronauts stranded Over 200,000 Miles from Home fought failing systems to bring their crippled module capsule safely Buck to Earth. Tom Hanks arid Kevin Bacon. Batman forever pg-13. Jim Carrey Nicol Kidman Val Kilmer Tommy Lee Jones and Chris o Donnell join Llie parly of super hero Sand villains. Casper to. Steven has conjured Upa magical movie entertainment event designed to thrill audiences of All Ages. Christina kick and Cathy Moriarty. Congo pg-13.the screen version of Michael Crichton s Best Selling Hovel serves up a Gener Ous portion of excitement and suspense in a storm of mystery set in a lost african Forest Dylan Walsh and Laura Linecy Crimson tide r. The uss Alabama reacting 10 a military coup in the former soviet Union disordered to carry out a strike against missile Sites it rebel. Hands. Dan pc l Washington and Gene Hackman. To a Tut die hard with a vengeance r. A Genius named Simon Jar my Irons is about to engage detective John Mcclancy Bruce Willis and thecly of new York in a deadly game. The englishman who went up a Hill but came Down a Mountain o. A group of. Welsh villagers in 1917 plot to outwit two British mapmakers and a we their local Lank Mark declared a Mountain rather than merely a Hill. Hugh Grant and Colm Meaney Fluke pm. This modern Day fable of a canine who discovers he was once a Man. Now he s compelled to Lake the treacherous journey to find his old Home and protect his former wife and Young son. Matthew Modine and Nancy Travis. French kiss pg-13. When her Fiance Falls in love Wilh another woman in Paris Meg Ryan lakes off for France to win him Back. Kevin line is the Man who involves Meg in an unexpected adventure and Romance. Gordy g. Gordy is a pig living in pig heaven at Meadowbrook foam but tragedy strikes when his parents and siblings Are hauled away in pick up trucks Gordy vows to save them. Drugs line and Kristy Young. Judge dredd r. There Are no lawyers no Tri als nil juries. There is Only judge dredd. Syl Vosier Stallone and Armand Assante in to jury duty r. In an apparently open an shut Case a sequestered juror Pauly Shore keep deliberations going so thai he can keep receiving free room arid Board a Little Princess a raised in the Jungles of India ten year old Sara Crews becomes a student at a new York school for girls when her father h called to War. Elenor Uron and Liam cunning Ham. love pg-13, in this contemporary tale of teen age Romance opposites attracts with expo. Sivc results when College bound Matt Chris o Donnell is attracted to the Beautiful and rebellious Cas by Drew Barrymore outbreak a it s a virus that s deadly fast arid highly contagious. I has the potential to infect the entire world. Dustin Hoffman is responsible for finding a cure before it spreads the Perez family r. A cuban refugee Jour Neys to the United slates to pursue his romantic destiny and in so doing discovers How strangers become family. Anjelica Huston and Marisa to Mei. Mighty Morphen Power rangers pm the Power rangers hit the big screen with highly intensified excitement and adventure. Muriel s wedding r. Muriel struggles in break free from a dysfunctional family Arnd find her place in the world. Torii up Lucile and Bill Hunter. New Jersey drive r. High school kids go on carjacking sprees for kicks wreaking havoc and 1 infuriating the local cops Shurron n c orly Stern. Operation Dumbo drop pm. When the priced elephant of a strategically located Vic namese Village is killed in Bailie it s up to the Green Berels to replace him. Oni Iny Glover and Kay Violta. Pocahontas g. Disney s animated fantasy feature follows the adventures of the Beautiful no Sivc american Princess and her romantic encounters with inc handsome English settler John Smith. Rob Roy a tin s action epic lakes us Back to 18lh-Ccnlury Scotland for Llie Story of the legendary Highlander Robert Roy Macgregor. 1. Jam Nee Sori and Jessica Large. A a species r. A suspenseful science Lic Liori Ihn ller about a genetically engineered create Relio can assume a variety of forms human and otherwise. Ben Kingsley and Michael mad sen. " " " " " while you were sleeping pm. A Youn Chicago transit worker escapes her lonely exis tence when she rescues a handsome commuter my the path of a speeding train. Sandra Bui lock and Bill Pullman. Under siege 2 dark territory r. A Mani acal criminal converts a luxury train into a com Mand Center to control a weapons satellite and threatens to destroy Washington. D.c". Steven sell and a Ric Bogosian. Virtuosity r. A vntn.,1 reality Ultra comma intended for police training escapes his computer environment Ami becomes a very real threat to Public safely. Den Al Washington is plunged into a ticii.dloru", thriller set in los Angeles. A water world pg-13. In a future where the is covered with a tar life has evolved Inion Critty society Ridden with Feir und comp ipod from guru Ropolys emf r stings d j Vich. Movies without stars not previewed by Chuck Scott Bakula protects Famke Jansen from the forces of evil in the supernatural thriller lord of illusions. United artists Chuck Vinch staff writer on movies lord of illusion s rated r must sea. Worth your time passable entertainment coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait give Barker the British author who created the memorable Hill Raiser scrips has often been heralded As the new Stephen King. But when it comes to adapting his work for the movies Barker suffers from the same problem As his competitor his grisly otherworldly style plays much better on the Page than on screen working from one of his own Short stories Here Barker tries to mix his Brand of fantasy horror with elements of the hard boiled world of film noir detectives. The result is visually enter Taining for the most part but the Narra Tive moves in fits and starts. And As usual Barker can t refrain from push ing the special effects Well past terrify ing to simply nauseating. Essentially a meditation on. The thin line Between magic and illusion and by inference Good and evil the film operas in the Mojay desert where Nix Daniel von Barona satanic cult Leader with a very real grasp of the a Black arts is about to sacrifice a 12 year old girl on his dark altar. But a group of four disenchanted former acolytes led by . Bland Kevin a o Connor arrive at the cult " its decrepit group House and shoot. Nix dead. Then Swann traps his soul in an Iron death mask that is screwed into his Skull and they Bur the body deep enough so that no one will Ever find it. The Story flashes Forward 13 years to the present. Swann is a renowned illusionist of the David Copperfield variety whose act relies on the visceral Power he stole from Nix. Then the three peo ple who helped him kill Nix turn up dead one with about a dozen knives stuck in him and Swann begins to think his old enemy in t really few red Herrings later we meet marry d amour Scott Bakula making quite a career move new York Pri vate Eye who is drawn to cases with a touch of the occult. After just coming off a soul rattling exorcism Case he s hired by Swann s wife Dorothea Famke Jansson who will soon make a bigger splash As the Femme Fatale in the next James Bond. Movie to find out what s going on. Of course Nix has come Back from the dead with a complexion that no amount of clearasil can fix roaring things like i was born to murder the world at first he wants to revive his cult but eventually kills off his remain ing followers with the proclamation " you re not eventually Nix decides to seek re Venge on his killer. Swann reluctantly joins with d amour to take him on with Dorothea who has some secrets of her own caught in the Middle. Barker manages to Jolt viewers now and then but the tricks really Aren t anything new. Somehow the Story never reaches out and grabs the viewer like the Best horror films do. The setup moves at a crawl while the climactic final sequence devolves into a special effects Gross out. Bakula is competent enough in the role of d amour a character who has flitted through Barker s writing for years. But the former Star of to s quantum leap plays it just a touch too world weary which prevents him from giving d amour any real emotional . He in t helped by o Connor who plays most of his scenes As if he s on the verge of lapsing into a coma. A bigger problem is the villain. De spite his boundless Powers Nix is strictly a Bench warmer when compared to such celebrated Barker creations As Pinhead and Candy Nan. And As for Why he wants to murder the world Well that s never really explained. Bar Ker is a gripping writer but it s obvious that he s overlooking something in the process of transitioning his work to the big screen.". Unless he discovers what it is his film adaptations will continue to Pale in comparison to his books. Page 10 sunday september 3, 1995
