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PAGE EZ10 â€" ENTERTAINMENT ZONE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1990 When | thought about doing a Top Ten 1990 Video Release column, I discovered that I couldn‘t narrow the list down to 10. Likewise, 1 could not pare the list down to a ‘‘best by category‘* one. With this dilemma facing me and the deadline approachâ€" ing, I came up with a FAVORITES OF 1990 column and a few other thoughts, and titled each section appropriately. in most cases | was unable to choose only one title because as you will see, while two movies may both be drama, they are unique to their Ken‘s video picks for ‘90 (CBS/FOX Video), STEEL mm’uv umbia Pictures Home Video), G oi DAISY (Warner Home Video), FIELD OFRDREAMS TUR! (MCA Home Video), & DEAD POETS SOCIETY | Log (Touchstone Home Video). bount Best Adventure Video: DICK TRACY (Touch Pi@ P‘ stone Home Video) and INDIANA JONES AND the !« THE LAST CRUSADE (Paramount Home Video). _ Br°w Best Action Video: TOTAL RECALL (MCAIVE) th€ & TANGO & CASH (Warner Home Video) and _IP° ANOTHER 48 HRS. (Paramount Home Video). (RCA Best Suspense: THE HUNT.FOR RED OCTO femal BER (Paramount Home Video). game Best Comedy Video: PRETTY WOMAN (Touch . Wb stone Home Video), PARENTHOOD (MCA Home Vid¢ Video). chequ Most Tiring Comedy: ERNEST DOES ANY. Greet THING. war b Best Family/Animated Video: THE LITTLE *"4 ! MERMAID (Walt Disney Home Video) and PETER â€" OPPO PAN (Walt Disney Home Video). the in Best Sciâ€"FiHorror Video: THE ABYSS (CBS *#Am FOX Video) and NIGHT BREED (Media Home _ J¢ff Video). artifa Best Epic/Drama: MOUNTAINS ON THE MOON MOON (MCA/IVE) and GLORY (RCA/ Columbia Pictures Home Video). do to the writer are so shocking that they could be a trap for an actor â€" an invitation to overact. But she somehow remains convincing inside her characâ€" ter‘s madness. The material in Misery is so much Stephen King‘s own that it‘s a little surprising that a director like Bob Reiner would have been interested in making the film. Reiner has started with literary properties before â€" like King‘s Stand by Me and William Goldman‘s The Princess Bride â€" but his strength is in futting a personal stamp on his films (which also BROOKLYN (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video) and SEX, LIES, & VIDEOTAPE (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video). Movie JOSSLIN INSURANCE BROKERS Something To Think About .. Best Drama Video: A DRY WHITE SEASON Advertising helps plan your budget. CANADIAN ADVERTISING FOUNDATION you‘ll hate (Continued from EZ8) Airfare, Motel, One Dinner Show $500 U.S. by Meissner Travel Agencies Ltd. 578â€"PETS LAS VEGAS ON Trip For Two To MELP SUPPORT WATERLOO LIONS CLUB You can purchase tickets A. _2 5 O % _ one day only OFF Thurs., Dec. 27 DETS CARDS * DECORATIONS * GIFTS COATS * LEASHES * SWEATERS 7387 _ 728 Belmont Ave. West, Kitchener FOURTH OF JULY MCA/Universal Home Video). * Orion Home ] * Eofl“w&qud: BACK TO THE FUâ€" TURE II (MCA,Heme.Video), ODDS & ENDS. Logan Bladeâ€"(Steve James) is :amwexâ€"cop turned bounty hunter in STREET HUNTER (RCA/Columâ€" bia Pictures Home Video). His mission is to capture the leader of a brutal Columbian street gang (Reb Brown) and prevent a war between the Mafia and the gang. The victors become the victims in BLOODGAMES (RCA/Columbia Home Video). A travelling team of female ball players challenge the locals to a friendly game and when they win, the locals retaliate. When ROSALIE GOES SHOPPING (Cineglobe Video) she has 37 credit cards and limitless rubber cheques. Rosalie (Marianne Saegbretch) is Ray Greenspace‘s (Brad Davis) "peacetime Bavarian war bride," who apparently finds life as a housewife and mother in Stuttgart, Arkansas, offers many opportunities. Daily she confesses her "spending" to the incredulous local priest (Judge Reinhold). Also starring Alex Winter. Jeff Bonner (Jeff Fahey) discovers an ancient artifact, the SERPENT OF DEATH (Prism Enterâ€" tainment), and is drawn into an adventure when it is stolen and he is accused of the theft. NEXT WEEK: THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE, MY BLUE HEAVEN, KING OF THE KICKBOXERS. # +# Ken Schickler operates Team Player Publications & Promotions, a desktop publishing business which publishes Video Current Releases Magazines. include the crossâ€"country romance The Sure Thing and the fake documentary This is Spinal Tap). What he does with Misery is essentially simply respectful â€" he ‘‘brings the story to the screen,"‘ as the saying goes. The result is good craftsmanship, and a movie that works. It does not illuminate, challenge or inspire, but it works. Roger Ebert is an American film critic. 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