By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald rating: * * )
Partners in grime, you could call them. Brothers Jim and Artie Mitchell were brothers who got into the sleaze business in San Francisco in the late 60s. Counterculture heroes after numerous arrests for obscenity, which they portrayed as a battle for free speech, the
brothers fell out in a fairly permanent way.
Rated X, which tries to paint the Mitchells as misunderstood artists, was directed by Emilio Estevez, and features Estevez and Charlie Sheen, the actor-brothers known as much for their off-camera exploits as for their on-camera talent.
A genuinely adult entertainment for the weekend is the four-video set of The Sopranos first series (* * * * *) or Liberty Heights (* * *), Barry Levinson's warm-hearted memento of his Baltimore high-school days, previewed here recently and arriving on the shelves this weekend.
Running time: 115 mins
Rental: Now
