Newsday from New York, New York • 67

B7 This Hunt Good Buddy MOVIE REVIEW BUCK DOB (PG-13) There's more than enough pM to have made this movie without the distracting truck crashes but there's not enough acting to create the tension provided by 18-wheeiers side by side on a two-fane highway Directed by Jevin Hooks With Patrick Swayze Randy Travis and Meat Loaf 1:40 (violence to motor vehicles lots of gunfire and several deaths) At area theaters Oh yes people die too Many people all bad in some way Most deserve to die for turning their trucks into weapons of mass destruction Is there no American Society for the Preservation of Trucks And Other Internal Combustion Vehicles to object to the cruel and inhumane treatment various 18-wheelers car-carriers pickups (with gun rack) motorcycles and cars receive? Remember all those convoy movies back in the days of CB radios when the road promised romance and escape? Not here grit in the oil bitter water in the gas tank not Dukes of more like Mad meets and the Gun The plot runs along well-lit roads with plenty of chases crashes escapes and corn-fed dialog As Swayze tells the man who set him up: do what I have But hope for Randy Travis fans: He acts rings around Swayze who has swagger and the sneer but stays too cool throughout a camera in front of your windshield Patrick Do something for it His only emotional moments are spoken he is a trucker who even listen to countiy music Perhaps his face froze in prison where his Jack Crews did time for vehicular manslaughter (as opposed to the men slaughtering vehicles for the By Bob Ileisler STAFF WRITER ATRICK SWAYZE is caught between the pedal and the metal in a movie lacking the charm and style to raise it above a demolition derby with a country-music sound track Deliver a truckload of illegal guns from deepest Georgia to Newark with the FBI and double-crossing transporters on his tail or lose his wife and daughter to the really menacing bad guys and his house to the bank And all this without a license asks the pressing philosophical question: Is it still a special effect to have a truck ram into a gasoline tanker and blow up? be one day his truck will crash into a radio station and he can find something to do with his life The ever-icky Meat Loaf makes an appearance in a role that fits him like a spiked glove: a Bible-quoting cigar-chomping lunchmeat-coupon-clipping bad guy who lets loose most of the truck-crunching action His final burst of glory ties up an end left so loose that it flapped all the way past the happy ending There may be an interesting movie somewhere in and the character of Jack Crews But it prefers to rub metal together rather than people or ideas sake of the Jerry Springer box office crowd) Pushing to get home for his little birthday party Crews the black the demon hound of truckers who fall asleep behind the wheel only to push his rig away from the apparition and into a tire-changer Travis one of the chaperones sent along with the weapons also sings a little Sometimes he sings in the truck cab sometimes his voice finds music and appears as part of the score See his hobby He turns the boredom of the highway (not to mention those life-threatening moments that come his way while moving contraband from state to state) into countiy songs May The IRS Plays Tax and Consequences lege Student Film Society is hosting the 36th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour on its only metropolitan area stop The tour is comprised of highlights from this Ann Arbor Test which specializes in 16mm independent and experimental film work from around the countiy and whose entries actually are judged on 16mm rather than tape which is how virtually every other festival does it these days The screenings take place Friday beginning at 7 pm and Saturday beginning at 2:30 pm Call 718-951-5664 for more information Gotham Gone Gaga continues tonight at Film Forum (209 Houston St 212-727-81 10) with the immortal the 1928 silent comedy starring Harold Lloyd guest-starring Babe Ruth and musically enhanced by Steve Sterner with live piano accompaniment Also in the series which features 50 comedies set in Manhattan and runs till June 1 1 are timeless classics ranging from at to Cameraman" to to King of More Than Medium Cool And while flashing back (excuse the pun) the fertile are the subject of Apart: Films from 1968 and Thereabouts" which opens Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art 1 1 1 53rd St 212-708-9400) The opening film is what else? which plays at 2 pm (and May 15 at 8 pm) followed by Jean-Luc Godard's hallucinogenic at 5 pm (and May 11 2:30 pm) Other series films: and Clyde" Baby" Night at and President's Act of raises a lot of questions including some about the film itself While a lot of fun kicking the Internal Revenue Service while down why did it take a reputedly ruthless agency 14 years to go after the couple? Did they do something specific to instigate the faeeofl? Did Leppzer have fun interviewing the somewhat hapless couple who bought the Kehler-Comer house? What was the aim of the vigil to have the house turned back over to the Kehler-Corners by a couple who afford a house anywhere else? What did a lot of these people do for a living? Go Ask The film and discussion are being presented by the CAC and the Long Island Progressive Coalition War Drums and speaking of films as socio-political agents provocateur John Pierson film mensch takes his Independent Film Channel program- to Oklahoma tonight to investigate why Tin the 1979 Oscar winner based on the Gunter Grass novel was banned all across Oklahoma City The film like the book concerns a boy who refuses to grow after the Nazis come to power in Germany Pierson talks with allegory-immune conservatives who worked to ban the film brief scenes of the ungrown hoy in a sexual situation were the ostensible reasons and to one guy who had his rented copy of the video seized by police at his home Oh and speaking of censorship if you don't get the Independent Film Channel call your cable operator (like help) Ann Arbor NY This Friday and Saturday the Brooklyn Col FILE EATH AND THE RAIN and taxes as Carl Sandburg once wrote are inevitable unavoidable and inescapable And if you judge by Robbie intriguing documentary Act of so are tax resisters The film which is being given a special screening Wednesday night at 7:30 at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington concerns Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner a Masschusetts couple who refused to pay federal for 14 years and finally had their home seized by the IRS But also about the issue of conscience-driven tax protests the depth of grass-roots leftist organizing and its heritage in New England and how certain government agencies manage to get out of the way after done their dirty work and let private citizens fight The film will be followed by what is sure to be a fascinating discussion Participating will be Leppzer the Rev Bill Brisotti of Casa de la Paz (the only Catholic Worker house on Long Island) and members of the Long Island War Tax Resisters No one will be audited (as far as we know) Narrated by Martin Sheen and featuring appearances by priest-activist Daniel Berrigan and Pete Seeger the film chronicles what ultimately was a five-year effort by the Kehler-Corners to recover their house which was seized put up for bid and purchased by a young couple for $5400 (nice deal) There are ancillary matters about land trusts and trespassing allegation but the crux of the movie is the 21-month-long 24-hour vigil that local activists managed to put together before the whole thing was resolved 5 I I FILM John Anderson I i.