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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1985)
it ID ami Co-editors/Writers.'TI^^S^SJHTSSfJr.Cathy Riely Walter Smith Photographer Bill Hughes The Battalion Friday June 21,1985 New summer films offer relief By WALTER SMITH Co-editor Summer is a great time for new movie releases. Especially in Texas, where, everyone is trying to escape the blazing heat and boiling humid ity.- The films in this summer's line up probably won't win any Oscars, but they should easily supply the dearly-sought diversion. • The Goonies promises to be one of the summer's biggest box office grosser. Steven Spielberg is the ex ecutive producer of this Warner Brothers release about a troop of teenagers and their daring exploits ala Indiana Jones for the pre-pubes- cent set. The picture, directed by Chris Columbus, stars Steve Antin (The Last American Virgin), Cory Feldman (Gremlins), Ke Huy-Quan (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), and four newcomers. Another Spielberg film slated for release this summer is Back to the Future. It involves a kid that travels back to the '50s, only to meet up with his parents as teenagers. It sounds like a farce but with the Spielberg la bel, it probably will fare well at the box office. If you're having trouble tearing away from MTV to get to the theater, then rest assured. Two members of rock world's reigning royalty will hit the silver screen this summer. The King of Pain, Sting, and the Queen of Rock, Tina Turner, will star in The Bride and Mad Max Beyond Thun- derdome, respectively. Sting turns in his badge for the heraldry of Baron Henry Von Frankenstein in The Bride, which is based on Mary Shelley's classic novel. The Baron creates Eva, a ''perfect" woman, who is played by the original flashdancer Jennifer Beals. Considering the cast, one might expect a "song and dance” routine instead of the faithful re-cre ation of the Frankenstein legend which it is. Briton Franc Roddam di rected this film as well as Quadro- phenia, a film which also featured Sting. Turner won't quite abdicate her throne either. In Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the award-winning singer stars as Aunty Entity, the founder and ruler of Bartertown. In this feudal village, everything is up for bids, be it a drink of water or a person's life. Of course, no Mad Max film would be complete without Mel Gibson. This film, set 15 years after The Road Warrior, was co-directed by George Miller and George Ogili- vie. Miller was responsible for the "Nightmare at 20,000 feet" segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie. But if it's laughs you want, look no further than Pee-Wee's Big Adven ture. Pee-Wee Herman — a nasty nerd with one foot firmly planted in childhood — will take theater audi ences along on his whirlwind quest to recover his most prized posses sion. Tim Burton makes his directo rial debut in this Aspen Film Society- /Robert Shapiro Production. If an adventure with Pee-Wee doesn't sound appealing, perhaps a vacation with the Griswold family does. Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Ang elo reunite as Clark and Ellen Gris- Pictwed are (clockwise from top): Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, director John Huston and Anjelica Huston in Prizzi's Honor; Mel Gibson and Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome; and Pee Wee Herman in Pee Wee's Big Ad venture. see movies p.2 (left to right) Jim Belushi, Lori Singer and Tom Hanks star in The Man With One Red Shoe. (left to right) Kerri Green, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Sean Astin, Ke Huy-Quan, JeffB. Cohen and Martha Plimpton star in Goonies. Steven Spielberg is executive producer of this sci-fi/adventure film.