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Get Your Next-Fix With Our Top 10 Retro Movies and Shows On Netflix!
Howdy TruffleShufflers! Did you have a lovely weekend? If yours was anything like mine, then you had a good long browse through your movie collection to find some old favourites and spent a lot of time binge-watching that series that youâve just got into. Am I right?
Speaking of old favourites, Iâve been trawling the deepest depths of Netflix to find their....
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Top 10 Retro Movies and Shows!
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So here goes, get ready for some serious nostalgia and hopefully, a little inspiration for something to to keep you smiling and fill the evenings now youâre back at work or school or wherever again.
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Inspired by Darren Rawlins, Our Favourite Retro Cars Transformed!
Howdy TruffleShufflers! This week we found a cracking little Tumblr page from the very talented Darren Rawlins. Heâs done a series of cartoons that takes the cars from some iconic retro shows and imagines what theyâd look like as TRANSFORMERS!
Have a look at his work here.... darrenrawlings.tumblr.com whilst we run down our Top 5 Transformers from Retro Shows Inspired by Darren Rawlins!
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1) First up, itâs a TruffleShuffle favourite, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesâ Party Wagon! Built by Donatello, this awesome van came with all kinds of handy accessories, including missiles, breakaway doors, a radio broadcaster and parts of it could even be used as a ramp to get the Turtles out of trouble! We think the Transformer version would be pretty badass, especially if it had a few karate lessons from Splinter!
2) In a close second, we just had to pick the Batmobile. Itâs been through dozens of crazy incarnations and hosted a vast array of mental weaponry but Darren has opted for the red-detailed one from the 60s TV show and Tim Burtonâs sleek 1989 entry. Now, the TV show Batmobile displayed more gadgets than you can shake a batarang at in its 2 year run on our screens, but Burtonâs incarnation famously included grappling hooks to scale walls, a bulletproof finish and one stonking great afterburner at the back. That makes for one pretty terrifying Transformer if you ask us, letâs hope heâs not a Decepticon...
10 Things You Might Not Know About... Shaun of the Dead.
Get ready to feel old movie fans! This week weâre celebrating the whopping 10 year anniversary of Simon Peggâs masterpiece, Shaun of the Dead!
We canât believe it either, the first film of the âBlood and Ice Cream trilogyâ was originally released a whole decade ago, so to celebrate, hereâs ten things you might not know about this fabulously funny, all-brit, homage-filled classic. Enjoy!
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1. Repetition is key. Throughout the film, a number of phrases are repeated or mirrored, including âSorry Shaun, no... Iâm sorry Shaun.â and âTop left, reload, Iâm on it! Nice shot!â which is something Alfred Hitchcock used to do in order to build suspense or give the audience suspicions about a character, Edgar Wright uses a number of horror movie conventions for comedy purposes. The most obvious of which comes in the form of quick cuts of short actions which usually implies a hasty retreat or preparation for war but in Shaun, they just make a cup of tea or go to the car. Genius.
2. Itâs one of many techniques that was honed by Wright when making Spaced way back in 1999 and the movie was inspired by an episode of the series in which Tim (Peggâs character) stays up all night and begins hallucinating, seeing zombies from the 1996 Playstation game, Resident Evil.