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8 Heads in a Dufflebag (Star rating unavailable)
A black comedy in which hitman Joe Pesci's parcel of proof that he whacked eight guys gets mixed up with the baggage of a bickering, vacationing family. David Spade and George Hamilton round out the cast. (R) At Kahala, Kailua, Kam Drive-In, Kapolei, Mililani, Pearlridge, Restaurant Row
Reivewed in today's Honolulu Star-Bulletin. (PG-13) At Varsity
Tom Arnold stars in a big-screen version of the '60s television sitcom. The movie is set in the contemporary Caribbean instead of the World War II Pacific. (PG) At Kapolei, Keolu, Koko Marina, Nanakuli, Pearl West, Restaurant Row
Reivewed in today's Honolulu Star-Bulletin. (R) At Kahala, Kapolei, Mililani, Pearl West, Restaurant Row
CONTINUING
As a scary movie "Anaconda" is no more than middling. But if you look at it as a parody, you might find it howlingly funny. (PG-13) At Kapolei, Keolu, Laie, Mililani, Nanakuli, Pearl West, Restaurant Row and Waikiki 3
Halle Berry and Natalie Deselle play best-friends from Georgia who head to Beverly Hills in hopes of landing a role in a music video. Far-fetched plotting and awful sentimentality prevail. (PG-13) At Pearl West
Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford star in this solid drama exploring the differences between an IRA supporter (Pitt) and the New York cop (Ford) whose peaceful homelife he shatters. (R) At Kapolei, Keolu, Pearlridge, Restaurant Row, Waikiki 1
This action movie has Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman and Mickey Rourke meet violently in Rome for a showdown that involves land mines, a baby, a Bengal tiger and the Colosseum engulfed in flames. (R) At Kahala, Kapolei, Pearl West, Restaurant Row
The moral quandry of sympathizing with a killer for hire, played by John Cusack, and the plot holes that might disable another movie are made irrelevant by the lustrous chemistry between Cusack and co-star Minnie Driver. (R) At Kahala, Kapolei, Keolu, Pearl West, Restaurant Row
This old-fashioned, small-town, coming-of-age story, set in the 1950s, takes itself so seriously it could have been locked in a time capsule for the last 40 years. Stars Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Joanna Going, Jennifer Connelly and Liv Tyler. (R) At Varsity
A modern morality play in which Tom Cruise plays a sports agent who dishonors himself by being honest. Supporting actor Cuba Gooding's performance brought him an Oscar win. (R) At Kahala
"Jungle 2 Jungle," starring Tim Allen, is a rote fish-out-of-water story about a commodities trader who brings his Amazonian forest-raised son back to New York. (PG) At Kahala, Kapolei
Jim Carrey plays a scummy lawyer forced to tell the truth for 24 hours. As usual, Carrey and his facial and bodily contortions make up the whole show. (PG-13) At Aikahi, Kapolei, Koko Marina, Mililani, Pearl West, Restaurant Row, Waikiki 2
The last part of the "Star Wars" trilogy wraps up the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo in their fight against the evil Empire. (PG) At Kapolei
Val Kilmer stars as a somewhat darker Simon Templar than fans of the earlier versions of the thief-for-hire may remember. Despite a bloated midsection and some silliness this seems a likely candidate to begin a film series. (PG-13) At Aikahi, Kahala, Kapolei, Pearlridge, Restaurant Row
Director Wes Craven's new teens-in-peril thriller raises the cheesy formula of the stalk-and-slash movie to an unexpected level of intelligence and valid suspense. (R) At Kapolei, Restaurant Row
This pleasingly old-fashioned biopic traces the rise to fame of the late Tejano music queen, Selena Quintanilla Perez, and her tragic shooting by her fan-club president. (PG) At Cinerama, Kailua, Kapolei, Laie, Pearlridge, Restaurant Row
Silly but well-executed basketball comedy features Kadeem Hardison as a young basketball star who returns as a ghost after his death to help brother Marlon Wayans and his team to a tournament championship. (PG-13) At Kam Drive-In, Kapolei, Keolu, Pearl West
In this loud but lifeless comedy former spouses Lily (Bette Midler) and Dan (Dennis Farina) cross paths at their daughter's wedding reception, friendly chit-chat escalates into rapid-volley insults, then anger turns to passion. (PG-13) At Kahala, Kailua, Kam Drive-In, Kapolei, Laie, Mililani, Pearl West, Restaurant Row
The Power Ranges jump into action when space pirate Divatox stages a kidnapping in a drive to free a legendary monster. Check your brain at the door and let the good times roll. (PG) At Kahala, Kapolei, Pearl West
