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She should «Stop this acting nonsense before her kids are old enough to see her on the screen and have the guts to / DRIVE CLEAN DRIVE CLEAN DRIVE CLEAN DRIVE CLEAN DRIVE CLEAN » Check your tire pressure. + Change your oil and filter. + Keep the engine tuned up. » Check your emission control devices. « Service your engine promptly when waming lights appear. » Always refer to your owner's manual and use the oil and fuel recommended by the manufacturer. » Change your fuel and air filter. * Inspect hoses, wiring and belts. DRIVE CLEAN DRIVE CLEAN You've Seen the Govemment Ads! WE'RE READY | TO SERVE YOU! OOOOOOO0 OOOO ONTARIO'S DRIVE CLEAN Our Equipment is INSTALLED Our Staff is TRAINED Model years to be tested in 2001 1008 | 1996 | 1994 | 1992 | 1990 1988 | 1986 1984 | 1982 tell her how bad she really is. GET CARTER Sylvester Stallone is 50 years old, and simply too long in the tooth to be play- ing this type of tough guy. He should sit down and watch Terence Stamp's fero- cious performance in The Limey (1999), as a vengeful father on the hunt for the killers of his daughter. At 60, Stamp is the toughest man ever put on film because he gets up after a heavy beat- ing, not in perfect shape, and goes gunning for the killers yet again. Stallone portrays some sort of enforcer or hit man who returns to his hometown for his brother's funeral before realizing (HELLO!!!) the tar- get was supposed to have DRIVE CLEAN 0 NVI INRIA NV310 JAIdd NVI JAIAA NVI JAIIA NERD REV e(€! + Check crankcase breather elements. - WE DO ALL MAKES AND MODELS Regular Service Department Hours Monday to Friday 8:00 am. to 5:00 p.m. Since 1976 a REDE, E> \ | / PONTIAC BUICK LIMITED 10 Vanedward Drive, Port Perry L 985-8474 _ BA\lel€ NVI) Ud A ITN BYAY dl NVI JAIIG NVI JAA] been him. Ooooo00, now he's mad so he too will seek revenge. Give me a break. Most actors grow old grace- fully, portraying their age, but this guy ... Jesus, he is just awful as a tough guy who seems to in be need of Geritol pills. The film becomes a comedy. LITTLE NICKY ... | don't get Adam Sandler, never have, likely never will. Because of all the film gen- res, comedy is the most personal of them all. What tickles you may not hit me as the least bit funny, but that is the rule of comedy. Adam Sandler has made a career out of a stupid baby voice he puts on, and acting like a moron, which is how a lot of comics have started. Others have evolved.In this piece of junk he portrays the son of Satan (Harvey Keitel ... why?) who is sent to earth to stop a war. Again he talks in that dumb, droopy voice, and again, despite seeing the film for free, I felt incredibly ripped off. PAY IT FORWARD Oscar winners Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, and Oscar nominee Haley Joel Osment are all but wasted and look embar- rassed to be a part of this blatantly manipulative drama about a kid who develops a do a favour rule. Spacey does all he can with the role of a disfigured teacher, and Hunt: is as earnest as ever as the wait- ress (again) mom dealing with her precocious son. When the tears start flowing they never stop, but never have | seen a film so geared towards making the audi- ence cry. | cried. | cried in despair that a great American actor like Spacey agreed to be a part of this. 102 DALMATIANS .. Why? Why do we need a sequel to a so-so remake of a successful animated car- toon? Why do we need to see Glenn Close as<Cruella de Vill again? She. has become famous in every cross-dressing nightclub act in New York, and with Cher has a cult following among gays. What a horrible film, with Close overacting to the point she made me forget she was ever an Oscar nom- inee, once compared to the likes of Meryl Streep. GONE IN 60 SECONDS ... | could never quite figure out if the title of this movie was for real, or if it was the time it lasted in movie the- atres. Meant to be a big thrilling action flick, the film instead is like a rock video, all fast cuts and wet look cinematography, with no real performances from the Oscar winning stars. Nicolas Cage and Robert Duvall must rue the day they agreed to be in this. Meant to be considered a bad-ass thriller. This is just bad. BLAIR WITCH 2: BOOK OF SHADOWS ... Why make a sequel to a film that was nothing more than a fluke and genius of marketing? The Blair Witch Project (1999) was scary, but really just a lucky gimmick that touched a nerve among movie goers. It cost $25,000 which considering it made in excess of $50 million is something of a bargain. The sequel cost over $15 million and made something like $25,000, and that was too Culling the herd: Bad movies from a dismal year much. A typical horror flick where teenagers in scanty clothing having sex get killed for no apparent rea- son .. shades of Friday the [3th. AND THE RUNNERS DOWN include. both space epics about trips to Mars, Mission to Mars and Red Planet, the hopelessly unfunny The Ladies Man, Eddie Murphy's ego driven The Klumps: Nutty Professor Il, Sandra Bullock as Miss Congeniality, and both Keanau Reeves films, The Replacements, and The Watcher. DISAPPOINTING BUT NOT NECESSARILY BAD FILMS included the high profile studio films The Legend of Bagger Vance, which was rather like watch- ing a golf game; The Contender, which was ulti- mately betrayed by the ending of the film; and Dinosaur, which, despite ground breaking animation merged with live sequences, was nothing more than The Land Before Time ... again. Important Information ior all Canadians abou responsible firearm ownership " An update licensing Temporary licences issued to meet demand To comply with the Firearms Act requirement for firearm owners to have a licence as of January 1, 2001, Canadians sent in their licence applications in record numbers. 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