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March 14th 2014

The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 90

Sweet potato and gravy! It's the weekend again retro film fans!

Like a hunter slowly creeping their way through the woods, lightly treading on the leaves and sticks as they stalk their prey, let us be your jumping, antlered stag as we dash and dive our way through this weekends retro cinematic greatness and make our way back to the safe land of celluloid wonder.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 15th MARCH

The 'Burbs (1989) ITV4 1:50-3:45 (1 hour 55 minutes)

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November 29th 2013

The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 78!

Holy Christmas carol! It's only another festive Friday which can only mean one thing....time for our weekly Retro Movie Rundown! Like the twinkling fairly lights shining amongst the Christmas tree hugging tinsel, let us be the light that guides you through the weekend as we walk our way through wintery fields in search of cinematic greatness even more chilly celluloid wonder.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 30th NOVEMBER

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) ITV London 3:15pm-6:05pm (2 hours 50 minutes)

An orphaned boy endures a miserable childhood, until he discovers he has magical powers and enrols at a special school for young wizards. However, his suspicions are aroused by a sinister teacher who seems to be up to no good. Fantasy adventure, adapted from the first of JK Rowling's books, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman and Richard Harris

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November 26th 2013

Guest Post: 80s Movies Filming Locations in L.A.

You could say I'm a bit of an eighties nerd. I run the world's largest retro websites doyouremember.co.uk, I've written a book all about the 80s and I spend way too much time listening to 80s music and watching 80s movies. So you can probably imagine my excitement when I got the opportunity to jet off to L.A. on a mission to track down the filming locations of some of the very best movies of the eighties.

A business meeting in California gave me the opportunity to stay with some friends in San Diego for the weekend and these good and very patient friends of mine kindly agreed to spend a long day driving me hundreds of miles around L.A. hunting down cool photo opportunities.

When the good people at retro t-shirt store TruffleShuffle.co.uk heard about my forthcoming mission, they kindly agreed to give me the matching movie t-shirts to wear in each location.  They have the coolest t-shirts in the world - seriously!

So at the weekend, after all the business meetings were concluded, I threw on my first 80s t-shirt and headed off in search of the first stop on our circular tour - Doc Emmet Brown's house from Back to the Future.

Next up was Elliott's house from E.T. (the Extra-Terrestrial)

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