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Rip It Up, Issue 216, 1 August 1995, Page 40

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AIRHEADS

Director: Michael Lehmann

This film has less cred' than a nose goblin in a pate sculpture. A righteous rock band looking for an unsolicited record deal can't get one because they never get played on the radio, and can never get played on the radio because they don't have a record deal. They accidentally on purpose take an entire radio station hostage in an attempt to get their demo played. The in-joke is, their guns are loaded with nothing but capsicum juice and tobasco sauce — good for temporary blinding, but hardly lethal. That's the main gag on which this lame-fest' is built. A handful of flat rocker jokes are thrown in to pad out the package. I won't bore you with examples. Don't make the mistake of thinking a bunch of your friends and a table full of giggle inducing goodies will turn Airheads into a fun night in. They won't. It's crap. BRONWYN TRUDGEON IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU Director: Andrew Bergman

I must confess, I had to steel myself before i thought I could stomach this light romantic number. However, it stars my man Nic Cage, so I managed to suspend my scepticism. Cage plays a good cop married to a nasty beautician (Rosie Perez). When her dead father visits her in a dream, bearing the winning numbers to the New York State Lottery, she instructs her husband to go and buy a ticket. When Cage gets stuck without enough money to tip a waitress (Bridget Fonda) having one of the worst days of her life, he promises her half of any proceeds the lottery ticket might win. When the ticket does win, he makes two million dollars worth of good on his promise. Understandably, this makes things stickier than usual between he and his horrible wife, and all gooey between he and the waitress. The original relationships get a shake-up (no prizes for guessing Where Cage and Fonda end up), and the money goes everywhere. There are plenty of simple morals here, namely: a promise is a promise; money can't buy happiness; good things come to good people, and vice versa. If you like hearing this kind of stuff, you'll like this.

BRONWYN TRUDGEON