Dane 18 — Halton Hille Thic Waak. Saturday. Dacambar 9 1009 Page 18 — Halton Hills This Week, Saturday, December 26, 1992 ENTERTAINMENT ‘om Management and Staff MEDIUM PIZZA sPECIAL Up 2 3 Ingredients for 14.95 Roger Ebert's Video Alert By Roger Ebert Universal press syndicate AMERICAN DREAM (no MPAA rating, 100 m., 1992) is the 1991 Academy Award-winning documentary by Barbara Kopple, who tells the story of a heartbreak- ing strike against Hormel by its Austin, Minn., meat packer. As the local union brings in a free-lance consultant and defies its international officers, families are torn apart, brother is set against brother, and the company hires per- manent replacements for the strik- ers. A film of courage, risk and pain, with people so real they make most movie characters look like refugees HELD OVER! Cinema 1 7-9:15 p.m. * Sat to Thurs 2 p.m. “Hoty Cow! It’s BicGer & BerTer, FINER & FUNNIER THAN THE First!” Mike Cidoni, RADIO ONE OUI NEO Lost IN NEW YORK FOH AS The Best in Fitness at very low cost! NEW! Highly Qualified Staff Ask for our... \ 13,000 Ibs. of Free Weights Cardio/Nautilus, Taekwondo Personal Weight Loss & Fitness Programs Indoor Pool, Hot Tubs, Saunas, Solar Beds MEN & WOMEN Hwy. 7 & Winston Churchill 3-9575 WOMEN ONLY Downtown Georgetown 73-9655 from the funny page. Rating: thkk : PRELUDE TO A KISS (PG-13, 110 m., 1992) stars Alex Baldwin and Meg Ryan as a young couple who fall in love and get married, and then, on his honeymoon, Baldwin begins to suspect that a different personality is inside his bride’s body. The answer to the mystery involves an old man (Sydney Walker), and the movie is surpris- ingly thoughtful in the way it devel- ops its poe of love and longing. Rating: k* CLASS Gn (PG-13, 98 m., 1992) is an identity-switch movie in which two black high school stu- Ww YEARS 877-4161 HOLLYWOOD TAVERN "A PLACE WHERE FRIENDS MEET" Closed Dec. 24 at 6 p.m. THIS NE GREAT PARTY WITH GHOST RYDER $15 ADVANCE - $20 AT DOOR (includes hot & cold buffet) AT THE CORNER OF WINSTON CHURCHILL & He 4 Re-open Dec. 27 at noon EVE JOIN US FOR A THE HOME OF COU! & WESTERN MUSIC ELECTRONIC SERVICE AT A PRICE THAT WON'T JOLT YOU! VCRs * HOME & CAR STEREOS * PORTABLES « CDs TURNTABLES « VIDEO GAMES © COMPUTERS ° ETC. 90 DAY GUARANTEE «FREE ESTIMATES ‘ALL SERVICE PERFORMED ON PREMISES BY QUALIFIED TECHNICIANS For the Best Service At The Best Price Call SINCLAR Sg AVENUE. SERVING HALTON 877 2425 Ae & yes Arthur & Penny Trebbne, Sales Reps. 877-5211 RE/MAX Suburban (91) Inc. In joyous appreciation of your friendship and good will, we offer our deepest thanks, along with glad tidings of the season. dents — one Mbit one with a criminal record — accidentally mistaken for each oe The message is that how people are perceived helps to shape who they are, but the movie buries that pointed insight in bubble-brained teen-age sitcom goofiness. Rating: ak POISON IVY (R, 92 M., 1992) suffers from its casting. Drew Barrymore plays an evil adolescent who worms her way into a family, intent on seducing dad (Tom Skerritt), replacing mom (Cheryl Ladd) and framing the daughter (Sara Gilbert). But Barrymore isn’t convincing as a bad girl, and so the story seems contrived. Lots of would-be Hitchcock touches, but Hitch always made sure you could believe the villain. Rating: ** 1/2 A MIDNIGHT CLEAR (8, 107 m., 1992) is a new film by Jim Jarmusch, a poet of the night, who tells five stories in five cities, all of them taking place during a taxi Tide. From Winona Ryder’s chain- smoking L.A. cabbie who doesn’t want to be a movie star, through strange encounters in New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki, the film captures the lonely, moody world of the early morning hours, when people are unbuttoned and vulnera- ble, and ready to speak about what’s really on their minds. Rating: *90% UNIVERSAL SOLDIER (R, 98 M., 1992) begins in Vietnam, where Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lungren become blood enemies. After they kill each other, their bodies are frozen, to be reactivated in a government experiment 25 years later. Now they are deadly UniSols — android combat units. But then combat flashbacks reawaken their old hatred, and TV reporter Ally Walker is caught in the middle. She gives a terrific per- formance; the rest of the movie is MeL Secpes often laughable. Rating: The 1993 edition of “Roger his best-selling book containing full-length reviews of more than 1,100 movies on videocassette, with an index of titles, stars and directors, is now available to his newspaper readers. In paperback, it can be ordered by sending $14.95 plus $1 for postage and handling to Ebert’s Companion, in care of this newspa- per, P.O. Box 419150, Kansas City, a PPET CHRISTMAS CARO! ‘SATURDAY - ple 200P. feineua3| HOME ALONE 2 ¢-OST IN NEW YORK fag