Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 24, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada 3000 saturday free press entertainment Section Morley b1 August 4 1996 today on television Medicine Wom andr Mitt and the Johnson Are excited the new school opening for 3 american Indian but a group led by Cloud dancing believes it will destroy Indian As tribal ten Stone Sully is stuck in the 7 or National kingdom life at the takes a a being look at what occurs during the Short season when Arctic wildlife remains special follows such animals As a Mother Polar Bear who attempts to capture a ringed Seal to feed to her Newborn and thick billed murres who search the Waters Tor James Coburn Nar moment of truth broken pledges woman sends her son off to col not knowing a few months later she will receive a Call telling her he has died in a hazing based on a True this to movie follows the Mother As she investigates her sons death and eventually fights her Way to x the new York state legislature in order to prevent More Linda Gray today in music history in Mark David Chapman was sentenced in new York to 20 years to life in prison in the shooting death of John Lennon the previous Lennon had Given Chapman his Auto graph Only hours before the 25year old drifter shot him outside Lennon apartment building on new York cites upper West born this Day Steve 1953 Rene 1922 soundbite a new curfew is Betna proposed for new York teenagers that would require them to be Home by if there caught out after lose their guns for a Taf show Host Conan Obrien on late might makes fun of gun today s lineup out and about Graham mall Street festival 10 to Corvette club show and Shine Pony Pembina 4 to courtyard Serevetas series Tracey Gas station 7 to 1 1 theatre dinner theatre Mer Lins 6 nightspots Blue Hole cafe Leader bars Transcona hang Errol cafe Elk lapse taste of new Drakes on Broadway 8 Naul fort Garry Jose Joes garage Pandora big Dave Mclean and the Curtis Paul hut let and Lavoung mirrors Assiniboine red Mustang Sallys Chris Burke slobber a nosh Moose Jackson Norwood hotel the Momtano club Hatfield x the bar t Grill Cost of cabaret sonic Garden City car Souciy Sliver Spike Saloon Princess layout stardust Windsor Park wild change blues cafe Eddie wellingtons the i and grand theft lounge Sheraton Windsor hotel momentary movies cinematheque Hong Kong new wave chunking and to thursday to comedy rumours Tim 8 and 1 6m comedy Island Holiday inn Airport Jebb 9 and 11 by Don Anderson for the free press this Manitoban Are Likely to be not just video copies of such recent Hollywood Block busters As Mission Imossi twister and toy its expected All three will be released on video at what the Indus try Calls sell through look for them to be snickered at about some studios will also be offering Sperlow prices on older films that Are still such As top says John Manitoba zone manager for Rogers the sell through Market has been responsible for keeping the video Industry healthy at a time when Many people have predicted its thanks to oversupply of stores and new such As pay preview and the impending Digi Tal video the video software dealers association predicts income from video sales will surpass rental Revenue within the next five by the end of that total Industry Dollar volume for North America should reach up from the anticipated billion for As the sell through area of the video business has it has become fiercely the heaviest hitters Are the mass they can afford to sell tapes at Roc Bottom prices because they receive a discount from suppliers for buying Large there is hardly a supermarket or drugstore in town that Doest have a rack of Low priced videos waiting to catch your along with the chocolate bars and breath while youre waiting in line at the movie sales set to overtake rentals in competitive Market what youre most Likely to see on these Racks is family oriented prod such As Disney new animated feature Aladdin and the King of its the kind of video that Sells the most its also what mass merchants sell More cheaply than anyone Dee discount faced with the Dee discount prices mass merchants offer on hot new video stores have developed a variety of strategies to Deal with the Rogers the British Colum Bia based recently expanded its Winnipeg presence to nine stores from through its acquisition of the Homegrown tvs the video superstore Rogers tries to remain competitive with Mas merchant prices on new sell through but it Doest always match says Rogers is evaluating the Market before deciding whether to increase the amount of floor space they devote to tapes for at the same the company encourages customers to special order videos they want to buy but cant find in the Well do our Best to deliver the orders within two Hamil ton president of the Manitoba another example of h video merchant some stores Start Selling off their previously viewed copies of a new title shortly after it arrives often at prices even lower than those offered by mass this had led to a drop off in Cus Tomer he people shop around for the Best As they do for Sontag says that in recent financial analysts speculated the growth in video sell through would Cut into the rental Side of the that Hast he in i feel it has enhanced he believes that owning and build ing a personal video Library keeps people aware of the business and its visiting a video store is like going to a which More and More outlets Are coming to and every year the number of movies which Are available to buy at reason Able prices gets bigger and potential threat seen by analysts and merchants alike As another potential threat to video rental has yet to make any substantial Vida research shows rental customers Are happiest when they can make their decisions in a first hand and in the sell through surge int the Only change in the video looming on the horizon is the introduction of the digital video disc with its promised improve ments in sound and Dur Abili did is and the hardcore technology fans will have to have it right Sontag but As it took years for the cd to replace the older style of up it might be five years before did makes a significant Dent in the video Mike who manages the Rogers video location at 3500 Portage also thinks did will catch on people Are pretty attached to the equipment and tapes they already he there wont be that Many viewers Rushing to replace no matter How Good did Best bad movie of the year the Island of Moreau is absolutely the Best bad movie of the possessed by a Majestic craziness that pulls you along against your better director John the Man behind the 1962 classic the manchurian has sensed that a Sci i thriller about pig women and mad scientists on a Creepy Island cant really be played straight in 100 years after the publication of Wells influential chaos on the set Frankenheime Camps it with a lot of help from the always interesting Marlon Brando in the title the Story starts off with a Deadpan narrative from Douglas English actor David sounding even More Mournful than whose Rescue from a Lifeboat in the South Pacific by a ironical Junkie named Montgomery Batman forever Val Kilmer May fall into the category of the frying pan and the Montgomery and Douglas arrive on Moreau where steaming trop ical a seductively feline woman the crafts Fairuz locked rooms and strange screams in the night Combine for gothic i wont ruin the suspense by describing Moreau spectacular first appear Ance lets just say its a Wacky comic inversion of Brandos renegade mad Man from apocalypse Moreau was a Nobel prizewinning movies Alison if nor inv a in Mew starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer Grant Park parental accompaniment out of five scientist until his attempts to perfect the human race with infusions of Ani Mal Dan led to his his recent aided by the usually stoned has resulted in horrify ing hybrids awkward hum animals whom Moreau wants to see As totally incapable of but whose aggressive impulses in barely kept in Check by electrical shocks and Montgomery doses of morphine and Brando gives a masterful comic performance As the misguided Hes a indulgent whose children just happen to look like mis Shapen wart hogs and con fronted by renegade mutants banging away on his he tries to Tell them All about the composer Schoenberg and 12tone while offering them the movie Falls Down primarily on special not because there bad the creature effects Are carried off competently by Academy award winning monster specialist Stan win in in a strange 90s its the effects Are the Damascos is one of Moreau hum animal beasts Are much scarier when there barely and All those realistic electronic prosthetics and computer generated images just bring the talk ing apes and dogs into the glaring Light of Day where the horror Eva were left with the films weird undercurrents of All ;