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The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 59!
What the Dickens! The weekend is here!
So in a dense tropical forest a mere sixty five point five million years ago. During the Cretaceous period amongst the fauna and flora of giant rich wild green conifers and blooming white magnolia's. Let us be your magnificent three horned beast the Triceratops as we stomp triumphantly around for mega cinematic greatness forage for retro movie awesomeness and fight off a Tyrannosaurus Rex for celluloid glory.
Have a happy retro weekend!
SATURDAY 29th June
The Hunt for Red October (1990) Film4 6:10pm-9:00pm (2 hours 50 minutes)
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Yippikaiya! Weekend Time!
So in the dark and rough sub zero seas off the Gulf of Alaska, while waves crash against the bow of a weather beaten fishing trawler let us be your sea hardened Captain as we navigate you to retro cinematic greatness, we'll cast our nets for mega movie awesomeness so we can catch tons of classic silver screen moments. Have a happy retro Father's Day weekend!
SATURDAY 15th June
Ghostbusters (1984) 5* 3:25pm-5:30pm (2 hours 5 minutes)
Three eccentric scientists put their hi-tech gadgetry and knowledge of the paranormal to money-making use by setting up in business as freelance ghost catchers. A musician calls them in to investigate when she sees strange creatures in her kitchen, only to end up possessed. As the spook-hunting team members deal with an attempt to shut their operation down, they discover an evil demonic entity is being summoned into existence and it falls to them to stop this creature from destroying the world. Supernatural comedy adventure, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson and Rick Moranis
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Mrs Foley's baby boy! It's only gone and become the weekend.
So, like a friendly proprietor of fine baked goods. Let us bake for you a cake full of creamy celluloid pleasure, we'll sprinkle on hundreds and thousands of mega movie moments as the aroma of retro cinematic decadence fills your nostrils. Tasty.
SATURDAY 11th MAY
The Princess Bride (1987)5* 3:10pm-5:10pm (2 hours)
A cynical youngster becomes entranced by his grandfather's magical tales, which revolve around a stable-boy's heroic quest to rescue his lost love from the clutches of an evil prince, with the aid of a vengeance-seeking Spanish swashbuckler and his hulking sidekick. Rob Reiner's comic fantasy adventure, with Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon, Mandy Patinkin, Peter Falk and Fred Savage.
My Girl (1991)Sky Movies Drama & Romance 3:45pm-5:30pm (1 hour 45 minutes)
Top Geeks of the 80s!
Everyone loves a good geek, whether you can simply marvel at their genius, or smile at their quirky geeky ways they never fail to intrigue and entertain us on the big and small screens.
With the geek clothing scene these days bigger than ever, it seems revealing you inner nerd has never been cooler. Modern day screen heroes are more and more not the all-out amazing lead roles, but increasingly the cooky sidekick that can out gadget and out think any challenge. With some amazing new characters hitting the big time recently such as the new Dr Who, BBC Sherlock series and Q from James Bond played by Ben Whishaw, we thought we would take the time to appreciate the geeks of old with our Top Geeks of the 80s list!
Anthony Michael Hall in everything from 1982 to 1985
Best known for his roles as The Geek in 'Sixteen Candles,' Brian Johnson in 'The Breakfast Club,' Garry Wallace in 'Weird Science', Anthony is well known and loved by all retro film lovers in the land and we're sure everyone has a little bit of his characters inside them. Geeky but cool!
David Lightman in 'WarGames' (1983)
Our Cuppa Tea! New Mugs!
As you can imagine working at Truffle Towers is never dull however sometimes, all we really want is a tea break and "teatime" gets better every day with our ever increasing collection of retro mugs.
Check out our latest additions including Big Bang Theory Mugs:
Which one are you? Little Miss Mugs:
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Cor Blimey O'Rielly it's only the weekend again!
As if travelling through deep dark space light-years beyond our galaxy let us be your intrepid interstellar explorer aboard a gigantic shining space craft as we search the stars for interplanetary movie greatness, intellectual alien retro cinematic awesomeness and penetrate the unknown depths for intergalactic celluloid wonder.
SATURDAY 9th MARCH
Stand By Me (1986)5* 4:30pm-6:20pm (1 hour 50 minutes)
Four 12-year-old best friends embark on a life-changing adventure in the Oregon wilderness in search of a missing teenager's body, unaware of the trials and triumphs that await them. Rob Reiner's 1950s-set coming-of-age drama, based on a novella by Stephen King, starring River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Jerry O'Connell, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland and Richard Dreyfuss.
Godzilla (1998)5* 6:20pm-9:00pm (2 hours 40 minutes)