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...woman who has challenged the lame but still powerful Marcos machine has few formal qualifications for her dragon-slaying role. Corazon Cojuangco Aquino is nonetheless fully at home with the local perquisites of privilege and authority. Her family and that of her martyred husband Benigno are charter members of the Philippine political and economic oligarchy that was pushed aside by Marcos. Corazon Aquino's father was a sugar baron, and her maternal grandfather was a Philippine Senator. One of her cousins, Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., is reckoned to be the President's closest economic crony. He is controller of a national...
FRIGHT NIGHT (Sack 57) and YEAR OF THE DRAGON (Sack 57) are despite their opposite positions on the budget spectrum, equally affective failures. "You have to believe for that to work," the vampire-on-the-block says of the Cross held out before him. Double ditto, as Dewitt's kid brother says, for powerful horror and drama: you gotta believe...
...putative heroes of these two bloodbaths--the kid who cried vampire too much and the I-eat-steal-wontons tough cop in Dragon look and feel so ... phony. More to amateurish acting in Fright Night and more to Mickey Rouke's pretentious acting in Dragon, both movies convey that condescending sense of cinematic closed-captioning for the slow...
...enough for Rourke to sound like a Rambo who forgot to put the airpump to his navel; he has to dress up in his Vietnam fatigues, too. Our token Italian don in Dragon doesn't just get announced as the Italian, he has to put a voice box to his punctured throat to rasp out his tough words. What's this supposed to mean? Marlon Brando, eat your heart...
...Creator: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10; Volunteers: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 10. Cinema 57: 200 Stuart St. near Park St., Boston, 482-1222. Fright Night: 1, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 10; Year of the Dragon: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15. Copley Place: Copley Plaza, Boston, 266-1300. Wetherby: 10:30, 12:40, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00; Bad Boy: 10:15, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:30, 10:10; UFOria: 10:15, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:30, 10; Goodbye New York...