Adventure and comedy for holidays

Press, 8 May 1986, Page 10

Adventure and comedy for holidays

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hans petrovic

A good mixture of high adventure (“The Jewel of the Nile,” Savoy), Sherlock Holmes fantasy ("Pyramid of Fear,” Midcity), comedy (“Police Academy 3,” Regent, and “Secret Admirer,” Westend), animated features (Walt Disney’s “The Black Cauldron,” Savoy; “Rainbow Brite and the Star St

:ealer,” Regent; and “The Care Bears,” Midcity) and family-action (“D.A.R.Y.L.,” Avon) will be screened by the Christchurch cinemas during the school holidays. Some of the highlights are:

TOP RIGHT: “Pyramid of Fear” (Midcity). Nicholas Rowe plays the young Sherlock Holmes in this Steven Spielberg production, which is set in 1870 England and depicts the sleuth as a youth involved in adventurous criminology. The screenplay was written by Chris Colombus, who was also responsible for “Gremlins” and “The Goonies,” and the film includes many fantastic special effects.

BOTTOM RIGHT: “The Jewel of the Nile” (Savoy). Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Avner Eisenberg, who plays a holy man, outwit the evil potentate of a desert kingdom in the sequel to the highly successful “Romancing the Stone.”

This episode follows Douglas and Turner on a perilous trek into the deserts of North Africa, with their hot-tempered arch enemy, played by Danny DeVito, still dogging their trail.

BELOW: “Police Academy 3” (Regent). Steve Guttenberg returns in the third episode about America’s favourite team of crimebusters, in which

he meets up with Georgina Spelvin (centre) and Shawn Weatherly. “Save the Academy” is their newest, toughest assignment, as members of the original graduating class return to help the current batch of raw recruits cram for a test of law enforcement skills with the future of the Academy depending on the outcome. BOTTOM: “Secret Admirer” (Westend). C. Thomas Howell with the two girls in his life, Kelly Preston (left) and Lori Loughlin, who star in this teenage comedy in which a passionate, unsigned letter is slipped into a high school locker. The letter means entirely different things to Howell, who first finds it; to Howell’s mother, who thinks her husband is having an affair; to the father, who thinks it has something to do with “adult education”; and a policeman who is trying to protect his marriage.

Also of interest is Walt Disney’s animated fantasy, “The Black Cauldron,” which will be screened during mornings and afternoons at the Savoy. It is the heroic saga of a young boy who must prevent the evil Horned King from gaining possession of the Black Cauldron, a mysterious force capable of producing an army of supernatural warriors.