Birmingham Evening Mail from Birmingham, West Midlands, England • 40

40 EVENING MAIL FRIDAY JULY 12 1991 THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE On NY bloke who likes to wolf-whistle or make physical passes at pretty girls had better watch out if his victim has seen THELMA LOUISE (15) know precisely how to exact revenge! The buddy film EVERY woman ought to see will also appeal to absolutely everyone else on different levels except for boyfriends with no sense of humour just have to cuddle their popcorn buckets ALEXANDRA THEATRE (643-1231): Ja maica Inn BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME (622-7486): Some Like It Hot BELGRADE THEATRE COVENTRY (0203-553055): The Beggars Opera Remix THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Strat ford-upon-Avon (0789-295623): Twelfth Night (Tonight Monday and Tuesday) Henry VI Part 1 (Saturday and Thursday matinees and Wednesday evening) Henry VI Part 2 (Saturday and Thursday) SWAN THEATRE Stratford-upon-Avon: Two Gentlemen of Verona (Tonight Monday and Tuesday) a Pity A Whore (Saturday and Thursday matinees and Wednesday evening) Virtuoso (Saturday and Thursday) By GRAHAM YOUNG Ridley Bladerunner Scott teams Susan Sarandon (Louise) and Geena Davis (Thelma) as two ordinary women driving off for a weekend of glorious fishing well away from their idiotic men I AVENGING ANGELS: Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in Thelma And Louise After meeting serious trouble at their first stop the fantastic American landscape opens out and the pair find themselves being snowballed into an ever deeper world that is not only exciting but positively liberating Thelma tells one startled victim: SEXY SUSAN WINS A GAIN after your wife mister look how I turned out!" The film is over-long in the middle but once the pair become equals in their new field the final 30 minutes builds remorselessly towards an extraordinarily even 90 minutes of watching other people driving themselves wild with real sex becomes tedious based on a true 1936 Tokyo story when two lovers called Sada and Kichi were pushing their delirious relationship to new A NEW venue launches a series of jazz gigs tonight The Nautical Club In Blshopgate Street Birmingham hopes to establish regular Friday night sessions They kick off tonight with the Tempus Jazzmen TONIGHT: Tempus Jazzmen Nautical Club Blshopgate Street Birmingham 830pm £1 TOMORROW: Tommy Sporting House Quartet The Waterworks jazz Club Waterworks Road Edgbaston 830pm Roger Healey Trio Pizza Express The Citadel Corporation Street Birmingham Lunchtime from 1pm Free SATURDAY: Mike Peck piano with Mick Hatton bass Spangles New Street 8pm Free Tony Billlngham and Europa Jazz Band The Brasshouse Broad Street Lunchtime Free SUNDAY: Arthur Brown Jazz Band The New Inn Bourneheath Nr Bromsgrove 830pm Rhythm Chasers Park Gate Inn Cannock Wood MONDAY: The Rhythm Chasers La Reserve Sutton Coldfield Sonny Bradshaw and Myrna Hague The Bear Bearwood 830pm £3 TUESDAY: Artesian Hall Stompers Red Lion Ladypool Road 830pm The Rhythm Chasers The Green Mere Green Artesian Hall Stompers Red Lion Lady-pool Road WEDNESDAY: Mike Peck piano with Dave Gray Saxophone The Plough Monks-path 8pm Free The Rhythm Chasers Chase Inn Brown-hills THURSDAY: Arthur Brown Jazz Band Marlgrove Hotel Bromsgrove 830pm Free Creole Serenaders or Excelsior Jazz Band The British Oak Stirchley JAZZ FESTIVAL DIARY PAGE 34 Third-rate well-filmed car chase and ultimately to the best climax to any film this year Susan Sarandon who has already shone this Spring in the much underrated White Palace again bravely acts her age to terrific effect yes women can be older than Kim Basinger and ten times sexier! Outstanding With six months of the year gone Thelma Louise joins in no particular order Dances With Wolves Cyrano De Bergerac Misery Silence Of The Lambs and Green Card as the half dozen outstanding films to date Five are still running miss a single one Bernard Matthews had better watch out boring Bruce Willis is out to corner the market in expensive turkeys HUDSON HAWK (15) follows Bonfire Of The Vanities into the starting line up for the 1991 Turkey Burger Stakes with Willis here playing greatest cat Hudson Hawk bad enough being named after a wind on a river but when this cat is about as agile as a lame elephant you wonder why they spent millions filming in New York a good ambulance scene here) Rome Budapest and Los Angeles Incredibly they also came to London just to film the Royal underground train! A third class delivery which is possibly vaguely amusing in a full cinema a nightmare in a dead one IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (18) is a no-holds barred erotic JapaneseFrench drama which has been banned since 1976 Many of the 20 main sexual intercourse scenes would normally be seized by the police but with a legitimate 18 certificate and British Film Institute distribution it can now be called But no-one would ever make an entire film about any of other great pleasures such as drinking a bottle of wine yes In search of the grass that is always greener poor old Kichi ends up where there is no grass at all But at least he goes out with a smile on his face RACE FOR GLORY (15) is a third-rate motorbike drama with a chequered flag history it had taken five years to make by 1989 via five production executives three sets of writers and two studio presidents! It tests the friendship of a motorcycle racer and his best buddy in France Belgium Yugoslavia and the US but see better BRUCE WILLIS: action on Sunday Grandstand Cornering the market Avoid in expensive turkeys WHA SHOWING ON THE BIG SCREEN 'SM TONIGHT: Gordon Glltrap Johnny Coppin Phil Beer (Lichfield Arts Centre) Colin Thompson (Market Tavern Folk Song Club Birmingham) Desperate Men (Bell Pump FoOlk Club Edgbaston) TOMORROW: Toss The Feathers (Tic Toe Club Coventry) SUNDAY: Drowsy Maggie (Sparkhill Park Birmingham) The Outsiders lunchtime set (Breedon Bar Kings Norton) Lunchtime Folk (Village Maid Lozells) Singers Night (Birmingham Traditional Music Club Cauliflower Ear Birmingham) Pat Brennan Pat Breslin (St Parish Centre Harborne) MONDAY: Tony Portlock Folk Club The Britannia Bradley Bllston) Pete Kelly Brian Patton (The Station Hotel Sutton Coldfield) If you would like free Inclusion In the Folk A Roots Guide write to Folk A Roots Guide Features Department Evening Mall Colmore Circus Birmingham B4 6AX We regret that telephone applications cannot be accepted SENSES (18): Non-stop sex in Japan 1936 Previously banned 444 JIMI HENDRIX (12U): Double blast of the guitarist with re-edited re-mastered sound in Dolby stereo A must for Hendrix fans 444 KINDERGARTEN COP (12): Ar nold Schwarzenegger as a cop going undercover as a schoolteacher Great fun and still doing well after six months 4444 MANHVNTER (18): Thomas Harris story of a detective who tracks down mass murderers Many people prefer this version to Harris's Silence Of The Lambs make your own mind up! 4444 MERMAIDS (15): Teenager Winona Ryder steals the show as a would-be nun who is sexually awakening Footloose mother Cher and lover Bob Hoskins try to cope Film sags in the middle 44 4 4 MISERY (18): Truly great shocker with Oscar winning Kathy Bates taking revenge on her favourite author birdy" James Caan! Just as good the second time 4444 MISTER JOHNSON (12): Poi gnant comedy about two men at the crossroads of civilization 44 4 NAKED GUN 2r THE SMELL OF FEAR 112): Leslie Nielsen returns your VIVA guide to the big movies showing in the West Midlands CYRANO DE BERGERAC (U): Gerard Depardieu brilliant French version of the classic play though 135 minutes of rapid-flowing subtitles requires stamina 4444 4 DANCES WITH WOLVES (12): Just when you thought missed the best film of the year on the big screen Kevin Costner has moved across town with his fistful of Oscars Three hours long 4444 4 THE DOORS (18) The Jim Morrison story so visually dazzling you'll feel like you are tripping yourself 444 4 THE EXORCIST (18): Such a late Saturday night success for 26 months also on late every Friday now 4444 It HOME ALONE PG) Junior home-based Rambo film is now the second most successful film after ET in America Relies too heavily on ten minutes of magic 444 HUDSON HAWK (15): Bruce Willis in another disastrously expensive flop this time as world's greatest cat Pretentious nonsense 4 IN THE REALM OF THE young FBI agent (Jodie Foster) track down a serial killer Sensational but not half as shocking as Misery 4444 4 SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (15): Julia Roberts tries to escape the husband (Patrick Bergin)who beats her Cliche-ridden but occasionally scary 444 4 THELMA AND LOUISE (15): Rid ley Scott pairs Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis for the ultimate bud-dieroad movie Fantastic film 4444 4 TOO HOT TO HANDLE (15) Kim BasingerAlec Baldwin in a marriage-go-round that becomes very very boring 44 4 WHITE FANG (PG): Disney film about a half-wolf half-dog which acts better than the humans around him a triumph of photography over plot 44 4 WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (PG) Rupert GravesHelen Mirren nicely filmed but very slow adaptation of novel For discerning audiences 444 RATINGS GUIDE: VIDEO MATERIAL 4 EXPECT TOO MUCH 44 WELL WORTH SEEING 444 GREAT CINEMA 4444 GRAHAM YOUNG with half a story but twice as many comic capers as your average comedy 444 4 NAVY SEALS (15) Violent emotionally empty escapades of the US top commando unit 44 4 NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER (12): Alfred MolinaSally Field: True story about a doctor tricking his American family to Iran permanently If only the film was as pacey as the trailer! 44 4 THE POPE MUST DIE (15): Rob bie Coltrane as Father Albinizi who is installed as the Pope by mistake Patchy but doing amazingly good business! 44 4 PROBLEM CHILD (PG): An in telligently wicked seven-year-old boy is dumped on a childless family with destructive results Very funny at times but could have been much better 444 4 RACE FOR GLORY (15): Forget table motorcycle drama 4 4 RAN (15) Beautifully filmed Japanese-French 1985 adaptation of King Lear 444 4 RED SORGHUM (15): A tribute to Chinese peasant culture 444 4 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (18: Anthony Hopkins as the cannibalistic psychopath who may be able to help a.