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weekender bcgi cowsay dircag 48 waihington street mi rihjn otxvlo lot rncfwiora jwr call 2946468 movie scene the good the bad and the ugly by ian bailey 1985 good grief nineteen- eightysix is already underway and ive overlooked the one mat ter that movie reviewers associ ate with the end of any year a look back at the movies of the pre vious 365 days so before the business of whats playing at local cinemas let me offer my best and worst for the movies i saw last year but first lets consider the movie of 1985 in terms of impact it wasnt a particularly good film but it demonstrated the connec tion between pop culture and the society that consumes it its protagonist was admiringly referred to by american presi dent ronald reagan and became synonymous with his gettough approach to foreign policy but the movie was also attacked by veterans from the war it glorified the movie of course was ram- bo first blood part ii sylvester stallones calculated sequel to first blood movies that were a ple asure to slt through ie the best movies i saw this year dafter hours martin scor- ceses inventive comedy about an amusing urban nightmare 2back to the future bizarre scifi premise rendered engaging and amusing by director robert zemeckis 3blood simple- riveting un predictable thriller about love and murder in texas 4the color purple- not a weak performance in sight in this steven spielberg film about a black woman surviving 40 years of oppression in georgia 5mad max beyond thunder- dome mad max becomes a mes- siah in this engrossing and surpri singly good scifi action epic 6mask striking true story ab out a boys attempts to cope with adolescence and his own facial disfigurement good perform ances from cher and eric stoltz 7the official story poignant examination of the consequences of argentinian repression through the situation of an upper class couple whose adopted daughter is the child of a mur dered dissident its more striking due to the recent trials of the generals behind the events chronicled here 8out of africa wellmade moving romantic epic set in afri ca at the turn of the century 9prizzis honor macabre film about professionalism honor and family ties among hitmen excel lent performance by jack nicholson 10witness peter weirs subtle thriller involving a clash of cul tures harrison ford proves he can act not the best but still pretty goodamerican flyers the breakfast club co coon daryl fletch fright night george stevens a film makers journey the journey of natty gann ladyhawke 1984 plenty return to oz to live and die in la movies so adull bof- fensive cplain stupid d all three that they allowed time to consid er the interior decora tion of torontos movie theatres or check the efficiency of ones watch ie the worst movies i saw this year american ninja invasion usa lifeforce mis sing in action my science pro ject pale rider pee wees big adventure rustlers rhapsody stelmos fire the sluggers wife weird science markville the jewel of the nile its hard to believe a sequel to the perky 1984 adventure romanc ing the stone could be so flat its even harder to believe the usually superb kathleen turner could appear in something so junky and where is the touch for quir ky suspense that the director lewis teague revealed in cujo and cats eye its certainly not in this tedious followup to stone which featured turner as a ro mance novelist who became embroiled in a stirring adventure in south america and here be comes involved in silly antics in the middle east only the charis ma of stars turner and michael douglas make this unbearable film slightly bearable pg swearing 101 dalmatians a re- release of walt disneys 1961 ani mated film about two dalmations who try to save their pups from certain death with a mickey mouse short entitled once upon a mousef rocky iv contrived trash the fourth rocky film has rocky balboa sylvester stallone the italian stallion fighting the sibe rian express a soviet boxer dolph lundgren who kills rock- ys pal apollo creed carl weath ers in an exhibition match pg violence v4 spies like us chevy chase and dan aykroyd ham it up as spies in this dull pointless dud its all been done before only much better thornhill square a chorus line an adapta tion of broadways longest- running musical the story of several dancers trying out for a few roles in a musical directed by sir richard attenbor- oughpg out of africa robert red- ford plays denys finch hatton a british hunter in kenya in 1914 who fell in love with karen blixen meryl streep a danish woman who managed a coffee plantation for 20 years and later wrote about africa under the pseudonym of isak dinesen this majestic epic from director sydney tootsie pollack moves slowly at times but its an intriguing drama where length means depth instead of tediumpg white nights only mikhail baryshnikov and gregory hines could have brought life to this thriller about a soviet defectors worst nightmare in an inspired bit of casting ballet star and soviet defector baryshnikov vir tually plays out part of his biogra phy as a dancing defector who makes an abrupt return to the ussr when his jet crashlands in siberia hes nabbed by the kgb and turned over to a tap dancing american defector played by dan cer gregory hines they dance they debate and the funny thing about this contrived film is that it works marty mcfly michael j fox and inventor doctor emmett brown christopher lloyd have just wit nessed the first test of the docs time machine in a shopping mall parking lot in back to the future the movie was one of the most enjoyable for re viewer ian bailey craft registrations begin a new season of courses at the markham guild of village crafts is about to begin registration takes place jan 9 from 7 to 9 pm and jan 10 10 am to4 pm and 7 to 9 pm at the guilds 98 church st location in markham courses are three to 10 weeks in length and classes are paid for by the hour rates are 250 per hour for members and children and 275 per hour for nonmembers 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