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Rating System (from Best to Worst):
  • Full Price Feature
  • Matinee Price only
  • Definite Rental
  • Catch it on HBO
  • Just wait for the Network Premiere
  • Avoid at All Costs

Movie listings for 1998

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A Note From Karina...

There may be movies where I may say "Full Price Feature and throw money at the ushers" and also "Tape the Network Premiere and forget to watch it" so be prepared for these stretches of categories.

I base the ratings on money because we all know how frustrating it is to blow $6.50 to $7.00 on "Texas Chainsaw Massacre-The Next Generation" (well, it wasn't my money) and walk out of the theatre depressed that you skewed the box office ever so much more in that film's favor, and then go to the video store to wash the taste of Leatherface out of your mouth only to find a brilliant movie like "Dead Again" on tape and wish you could have taken your $6.50 away from Leatherface and given it to Kenneth Branagh. I, with my partner in crime Kevin, am willing to make these sacrifices, armed with lots of research beforehand, and screen out movies to make room for those more worthy.

I acknowledge that we are freaks and we see too many movies, but I think we should leash our freakness for good and not for evil.

I do not do "family friendly" ratings and I may tend to use R Rated language in my rantings. I have biases and there are some movies I will not go see period based on just one element but I will let you know.

By the way, all of these in my opinion are Full Price Features even though now you can only rent them, so rent them! :) The Silence of the Lambs, Young Frankenstein, The Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap, Aliens, Oscar, Grease 2, Little Shop of Horrors, Dead Again, The Shawshank Redemption, The Hudsucker Proxy, Valley Girl, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, and I'm really starting to want to put a Jackie Chan movie on this list

I need a tag line too (you know, the balcony is closed, or that's just my opinion I might be wrong or I'll see you at the movies) - any suggestions?

Karina's bio info

Movie listings for 1998

'The Red Violin'

to open Toronto Film Festival

"The Red Violin," a historical epic starring Samuel L. Jackson and Greta Scacchi, has been chosen to open the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Organizers announced the selection of the film for the festival's prestigious opening gala Tuesday. The slot was occupied last year by Atom Egoyan's "The Sweet Hereafter," which went on to receive two Oscar nominations. "It's just a very emotional, direct, intelligent piece of filmmaking," said Festival Director Piers Handling. "For your opening night film you want to have something that is going to open the festival on a certain note and tone. I think this film will accomplish that," he said.

The film will be released in Canada by Odeon Films, a unit of Alliance Communications Corp. but has not yet locked up a U.S. distributor.

Festival organizers also announced that Robert Towne's ''Without Limits'' has been included as one of the festival's gala presentations. The film stars Billy Crudup as legendary middle-distance runner Steve ``Pre'' Prefontaine. The film is both directed and co-written by Towne, who won an Oscar for his screenplay of ``Chinatown''.

^REUTERS@

Film Critic Apologizes

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film critic Leonard Maltin has publicly apologized to the actor who played Bud on the "Father Knows Best" television series. Maltin made the public apology to actor Billy Gray over the weekend, settling a libel lawsuit filed in 1997. Gray had sued Maltin over his 1993 "Movie and Video Guide," in which he wrote that Gary was a real-life heroin addict when he appeared in "Dusty and Sweets McGee," a 1971 film about addicts in Los Angeles. Maltin says he never intended to convey that Gray was a heroin addict. "If any damage has resulted in the publication of the review, I apologize for that," Maltin said.

LOCAL CINEMA ACTION

coming soon

"Still Breathing"
A New Motion Picture
Made In San Antonio,Tx.
Interviews With The Stars, including Brendon Fraser & Joanna Goings

MICHAEL FRAYN'S
Noises Off!


 


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