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Courage Mountain 1989 2 stars

      PG, 98 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Christopher Leitch
Cast: Juliette Cabon, Joanna Clarke, Nicola Stapleton, Charlie Sheen, Jan Rubes, Leslie Caron, Laura Betti, Yorgo Voyagis, Urbano Barberini

  In this update of Johanna Spyri's "Heidi," Heidi (Juliette Cabon) is sent to a boarding school, and then war breaks out. With the help of a soldier (Charlie Sheen), she and her classmates escape over the Alps.

Demons 1985 1 and a half stars

    N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento, Paola Cozzo, Fabiola Toledo, Nicoletta Elmi, Stelio Candelli, Nicole Tessier, Bobby Rhodes

  Metropol is a large, ornate movie theater, and there is a movie about to be shown that is for invited guests only. The show begins and turns out to be a gory horror film. Then, the moviegoers start turning into the demons shown on the screen, and the real gore begins as those who are not changed run for their lives.

Gor 1988 1 and a half stars

    PG, 95 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Fritz Kiersch
Cast: Urbano Barberini, Oliver Reed, Rebecca Ferratti, Larry Taylor, Jack Palance, Graham Clarke

  A college professor enters the fourth dimension of time and becomes a hero in Gor where he helps in the recovery of a tribe's magic stone.

Opera 1987 2 and a half stars

    R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Terror at the Opera

Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni, Antonella Vitale, William McNamara, Barbara Cupisti, Francesca Cassola, Maurizio Garrone

  Director Argento comes through with lots of gore again, this time with loud rock music in the background. In fact, the gore may be more than his usual, if that is possible–some is downright revolting. A young opera singer, Betty (Cristina Marsillach) takes over the lead in a Verdi opera after the previous lead was run over by a car, and now a psychopath pursues her.

Otello 1986 3 and a half stars

    PG, 122 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz, Petra Malakova, Urbano Barberini, Massimo Foschi

  Placido Domingo is magnificent as Shakespeare's Otello in Verdi's opera about the Venetian Moor who marries the beautiful Desdemona (Katia Ricciarelli) and then is tricked into killing her.

Outlaw of Gor 1989 1 star

    PG-13, 89 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: John "Bud" Cardos
Cast: Urbano Barberini, Jack Palance, Rebecca Ferratti, Donna Denton, Nigel Chipps, Russel Savadier, Alex Heyns

  In this sequel to "Gor," our hero from Earth travels back to the planet Gor. It is not long before he is branded an assassin by the evil forces in power.

Torrents of Spring 1989 1 and a half stars

    PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski, Valeria Golino, William Forsythe, Urbano Barberini, Francesca De Sapio, Jacques Herlin, Antonio Cantafora, Christian Dottorini, Alexia Korda, Marinella Anaclerio, Pietro Bontempo

  While visiting Germany, a Russian aristocrat, Sanin (Timothy Hutton), falls in love with the daughter (Valeria Golino) of an Italian baker. Romance blossoms–until femme fatale Maria (Nastassja Kinski) enters the scene with designs on Sanin.

Movie Quick Pick

1. Courage Mountain (1989)
2. Demons (1985)
3. Gor (1988)
4. Opera (1987)
aka: Terror at the Opera
5. Otello (1986)
6. Outlaw of Gor (1989)
7. Torrents of Spring (1989)

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