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Article: EVERYTHING FROM VAN PEEBLES TO THOMAS JEFFERSON ON VIDEO.(TIMEOUT)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- February 20, 1997
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New in video stores this week:
''Solo,'' Rated PG-13 - An android soldier (Mario Van Peebles) rebels against his programming while trying to protect a remote Central American village.
Think of ''The Magnificent Seven'' reduced to the ''The Terminator'' and you're on the right track. The only problem is the stolid Van Peebles isn't up to carrying the story by himself.
''Switchblade Sisters,'' Rated R - Long on style but short on substance, this 1975 film profiles the struggle for power in an all-girl gang known as the ''Dagger Debs.'' Remember those motorcycle films that Jack Nicholson made early in his career? Well, this is their first cousin. ...