Notable videos for the week of May 11, 1990
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (RCA/ Columbia, R)
A lazy, connect-the-dots second sequel
to 1974's horrifying Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It delivers the carnage
but not much else. D
Moving Target (1989, Southgate)
Linda Blair and Ernest Borgnine
resurface in this action drama about the girlfriend of a mob victim
who becomes a target herself.
Red King, White Knight (1989, HBO)
A thriller in the spirit of glasnost: Tom
Skerritt plays a CIA agent trying g keep the KGB from killing
Mikhail Gorbachev. With Max von Sydow and Helen Mirren. C
Reissued
Caddyshack (1980, Warner, R)
Imagine a country club where Chevy Chase
plays golf, Bill Murray is the ground- keeper, and Rodney Dangerfield
parties down. B
The Color Purple (1985, Warner, PG-13)
Alice Walker's superb novel turned
to mush by Steven Spielberg's infusion of visual beauty into the
story of a Southern black woman (Whoopi Goldberg) battered by her
husband (Danny Glover). Oprah Winfrey turns in a fine supporting
performance. C
Crossing Delancey (1988, Warner, PG)
The love story of a pickle man and a
nice Jewish bookworm is contrived, but the movie mildly amuses. Amy
Irving and Peter Riegert are good as the would-be lovers, but the
outrageous yentas — Reizl Bozyk and Sylvia Miles — steal the show. B-
Deliverance (1972, Warner, R)
Granted, the film that inflicted
''Dueling Banjos'' on the world has a lot to answer for. But John
Boorman's movie about men river- rafting into a hillbilly heart of
darkness has the grandeur of Greek tragedy and the horror of Alien. A
Everybody's All-American (1988, Warner, R)
The disillusioned life of a college
football hero (Dennis Quaid) long past his prime. With John Goodman
as his best buddy and Jessica Lange as his beauty-queen wife. B+
Manhunter (1986, Warner, R)
Based on Red Dragon, which Stephen King
called ''the best popular novel since The Godfather,'' Manhunter may be
the best (and least splattery) movie yet a aut serial killers. A-
Sunday in the Park With George (1987, Warner)
Impressionist George Seurat's Sunday in the
Park on the Island of La Grande Jatte works as a point of departure
for Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical about the artist. With Mandy
Patinkin as the painter and Bernadette Peters as his mistress. A-
Things Change (1988, RCA/ Columbia, PG)
Shel Silverstein and David Mamet
collaborated on this fable of a simple shoeshine man (Don Ameche) who
is mistaken for a powerful Mafia don. B+
New On Laserdisc
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Warner)
The holidays Chevy Chase style. B
Lionheart (Warner)
Eric Stoltz and Gabriel Byrne in a medieval
adventure.
Penn & Teller Get Killed (Warner)
Reviewed in this issue. D+
