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             THE LINK MAGAZINES GUIDE TO WHAT'S ON IN AND AROUND SWINDON             N. PERKINS

                     Sci-Fi and wild water thrills                                      For all your UPVC
                                                                                          requirements
      Corinne Glanville reviews two of the films opening at the MGM in February             Windows
   Stargate                                              The River Wild                   Doors Soffits
   Kurt Russell and science fiction                      Two-time Academy Award winner    Fascias, etc.
   together in one package. What                         Meryl Streep and David Straithairn
   more could you ask for? This PG                       star as Gail and Tom, a troubled
   certificated film runs for 122 minutes                couple who take their young son   Also carpentry
   and provides a real evening of                        Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) on a      & joinery
   entertainment.                                        white-water rafting holiday in a last
    Stargate tells the story of two                      attempt to save their marriage.   Ring Nathan on
   very different men who join forces                      The journey becomes treach-
   to unravel a mystery which could                      erous when they encounter          430279
   reveal the origin of civilisation.                    mysterious strangers Wade (Kevin
    Tough-minded military man,                           Bacon) and Terry (John C Reilly).
   Colonel Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell)                      To overcome the villains,
   heads a top secret team inves-  Meryl Streep steering herself into   especially Wade who at first appears
   tigating a mysterious artifact   thrilling encounters   charming, bright and enticing, Gail
   unearthed at the Pyramids of Giza.  millions of light years from earth  must draw her family together to
   Daniel Jackson (James Spader) is  where they are stranded on a  save their lives as the river carries
   a brilliant, but unorthodox  strange and alien planet. When  them perilously towards their final
   Egyptologist whose scientific  Ra, the enigmatic ruler of this  destination.
   curiosityclashes with ONeils secret  extraordinary world, discovers that   She grew up on the river and
   agenda. Jackson identifies the  the doorway to earth can be  moved to the city to marry and raise
   object as a Stargate - a portal to  reopened, he devises adeadly plot.  a family. Now, once more all her
   another world.             Racing against time, O'Neil and  skills and strength are putto the test
    O'Neil leads Jackson and a  Jackson must overcome Ra if they  as she struggles to protect her loved
   reconnaissance team through the  are to save earth and find a way  ones and stay alive. This one will   SATURDAY
   Stargate, which transports them  back home.           have you on the edge of your seats.   MORNING

   Tim Robbins and Paul Newman in The Hudsucker Proxy, Friday 3 and   Daytime Concert       MOVIES
       Saturday 4 February at the Swindon Arts Centre, Old Town                            FOR KIDS
                                                           Bournemouth Sinfonietta
                                                               Wind Ensemble
                                                                                           4 February
                                                          Thursday 9 February, 2pm           Maverick
                                                            Link Centre Arts Studio             (PG)
                                                                                       	                   4
                                                            One hour programme of
                                                           Gershwin, Mozart, Handel,
                                                                                           ii February
                                                              Brittain and Gounod     1
                                                            Tickets £3, Gold Card £1   [Baby's Day Out (PG)
                                                                                                           -4
                                                           from Link Centre reception
                                                          Supported byWyvern Arts Trust
                                                                                           18 February
                                                                                        War of the Buttons
                                                                                                (PG)

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