Today at the AFI Festival

Following are capsule reviews of today’s screenings in the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas: ‘Up Your Alley’

United States, 1989, 93 minutes 7 p.m. Laughs, romance and thrills among the downtown homeless: a sexy newspaper reporter (Linda Blair) joins forces with a wino ex-comedy writer and an amiable shopping-cart fatso to track down a trash-heap slasher. Meanwhile, lecherous L.A. newspaper editors seduce their staff in Jacuzzis. Once in a while, some humor, life and verve seep though in the otherwise coy street scenes, but star-producer-writer Murray Langston and writer-director Bob Logan do prove you can craft a reasonable equivalent for the usual studio-made $15-million fiasco for only $150,000--an achievement in itself.