Tarzan (General)
Directed by Kevin Lima, Chris Buck Starring (voices) Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Rosie O'Donnell, Nigel Hawthorne
Disney's latest animated feature revives the Edgar Rice Burroughs classic for the umpteenth time, with impressive state-of-the-art digital effects delivering three-dimensional vine-swinging sequences. A handsome and entertaining production, which avoids the sentimental excesses and faux-ecological platitudes of some other recent animated offerings.
Double Jeopardy 15
Directed by Bruce Beresford Starring Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Annabeth Gish
So-so revenge thriller, with Judd turning in a good performance as the housewife whose world is turned upside down when her husband (Greenwood) is mysteriously murdered. Unfortunately, the ingenuity of the opening set-up is soon sacrificed for a predictable chase formula, with Jones as the tough-but-kind parole officer intent on tracking Judd down.
A Clockwork Orange 18
Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive
Kubrick's decision to withdraw his version of Anthony Burgess's novel from circulation in Britain (and therefore in Ireland) for almost 30 years has given A Clockwork Orange a reputation which, as its release now shows, is hardly deserved. In fact, this is a silly, shallow, meretricious little film, which has dated very badly since its initial release in 1971. The merits of Burgess's original meditation on the relative merits of violent free will and brainwashing social control are debatable enough, but in Kubrick's hands the story of futuristic bovver boy Alex (McDowell) and his forced "rehabilitation" is a vacuous exercise in overblown style.
