decides to aria, " s plane tcket to Greg. a guy he rreefs c the airport bar. The p a e Crashes and gait eats
away at BuOQ‘y. so re decides to took up Greg's Wife Abby real i-‘e c.er Gwyneth Pattroix.’ to Check she is oxay. Next thing you K'lO.‘.' the. fa. in love. but as expected. she finds out about the plane ticket and unceremonIOusn dun‘ps him. Of COLJFSQ. they do live happy ever after. MOre sChma!tz than you can stomach. Buena Vista VHS and DVD rental) i’Jane Hamiltoni
DRAMA
LAST RESORT (15) 75 mins 00.. Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski has in Last FieSOrt crafted a mOving love stOry that's also a damning critique of the UK's immigration system. Tanya (Dina Korzun) is a RuSSian single mother who arrives on the s0uth coast of England With her young son, Artiom, hoping to take up residence With her British fiance. Subsequently abandoned and left victim to an unSympathetic. verging on despotic system, Tanya forges an unlikely alliance With part- time bingo-caller Alfie (Paddy ConSidine). The enSuing cross-Cultural romance thankfully steers clear of cliched happy endings. thereby achievmg magical yet gritty stOrytelling that never loses srght of reality. lArtifiCial Eye VHS retail $15.99) (Catherine Bromley)
DRAMA
PAY IT FORWARD (12) 118 mins on
With American Beauty casting a long-life golden light on Keyin Spacey. directOr Mimi Leder must have thought She was onto a Winner With this sentimental drama. Throw in Helen Hunt and The Sixth Senses Haley Joel Osment and it seems like a dream package. Osment plays the schoolboy who. inspired by a proiect set by his teacher. creates ‘paying it forward'. where if someone does you a good deed. you then help someone else. and so on (until the w0rld becomes a better place. obviously). But slick direction and solid performances from
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(18) 119 mins .00
Carry On De Sao’e would be a more accurate title for dug W’ights adaptatoo of his own play. directed by Philip Kaufman, whicn melodramatises the last days of the notoreotis Marguis de Sade. Geoffrey Wright chews the scenery to remarkable effect as de Sade. who. having escaped the guillotine during the French Revouition ends up being locked away in a loony bin by his Wife. But there he continues to write. and busty maid Kate Winslet smuggles Out his lusty composnions to be published to the chagrin of Emperor Napoleon who dispatches Michael Caine's sadistic doctor to Cure or silence the pomographer. Naughty. and by the disturbing final act. not nice. (Fox Pathe VHS rental and DVD retail) (Miles Fielderl
HORROR RING 2 (15) 95 mins 00..
Derided on its release as a campier. shOWier, less original seguel to the Ring cycle's opening turn, the second of the Japanese Supernatural thrillers still has much gOing for it. FOr one thing. it never lets up the tenSion for one second. whereas the first film was content to drift along. building slowly to a big. bad scare. The somewhat confused plot concerns a female JOurnalist investigating the mysterious Videotapes that spread through the population like a deadly virus. With the help of a Supernaturally- empowered small boy. she tries to get to the bottom of the ‘woman in the well'. We await Ring 0. (Metro Tartan VHS rental and DVD retail) lBrian Donaldson)
THRILLER
UNDER SUSPICION
(15) 107 mins 00..
This stage-bound drama lit is based on a playi brings together the
ease _. exce e“. M rgac Freeman as co :e detect ‘.e V ctcr Benzet and Gene Rackman as .awyer Ham, Hearst. Hearst is a r c". crash attorney who 8 ca -eo " on susocicn of murdering :.-.c young gris "‘ "is “CWBiOWDV‘PJERC Rico. The majority of the action takes place in Bei‘ezet's office here the two loci< nOrr‘s. As Hearst's alibi starts to fall apart. his private life becomes the object of much: SCrut'ny Hackman stretches himself in a part iike he hasn't OOne in years. while Freeman reprises the wond weary gumshoe role that he excels in.
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DOCUMENTARY BLINDED
Channel 4. Thu 19 Jul. 8pm 00
Some are born into darkness and some have It thrust upon them seems to be Just one of the very obVious truths this new series would like to mint 0th. A child who was born blind. a man who lost his vision because of a bomb and an 80-year-old lady who is Suffering partial blindness because of her age; these are the case studies here and we follow them indIVidually thr0ugh the indignities of their disability and then we watch the old dear have an especially gruesome operation.
For whose benefit this programme is for. is a mystery; there is nothing here that yOu c0uldn't pick up from The Miracle Worker. the narration is so dull that even a seeing dog wouldn't get a buzz out of it. Either
way yOu know you'll still be pushing that man wth the whte stick Out of the way to get on the Crowded bus. A Show fOr radio. iPaul Dalel
DRAMA CLEOPATRA 2525
Channel 5, Fri 20 Jul. 7pm 00.
Essential plot: stripper getting a boob Job done gets Cryogenically frozen. wakes up in the year 2525 to )Olfl a band of Amazon women fighting to free the earth from robots. If you're thinking this SOunds Iike standard soft-pom fare you'd be right; but this is prime time so there's no sex. Just a combination of heaving bosoms. little leather outfits and plenty of speCial effects and kiCk-ass action that COLild make a teenage bOy weep With Joy.
From the makers of Xena: Warrior Princess and With Sam Raimi as an exeCutive producer. the gOremeister's black sense of humour helps lift this out of the trash can. You could critiCise the lowest common denominator appeal. but along With HerCU/es and the rest of the superhero series'. Cleopatra fills the shoes that the Dukes Of Hazzard once occupied: teatime Viewing With something for every family member. Just keep an eye on granddad‘s pulse rate. (LOuisa Pearson)
Cleopatra 2525 brings joy to the old
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