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Sweet potato pie! How can it be? Another retro movie weekend so soon? Well....if we must!

Like the first pioneering pilots ever to reach the skies, we find ourselves once again doing some last-minute checks before our big leap of faith into the weekend. Sofa....check! Snacks....check! Top retro characters....you betcha! Firing up our engines, we'll power our way down the runway before lifting into the unknown. Reaching dizzying heights before we even know it, we'll be fired off to far and distant lands like some of the most iconic characters ever to hit the silver screen where more adventures than we can even imagine await us.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 13th FEBRUARY

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Well Turkey sandwiches and mince pies! It's only the weekend and that was only Christmas!

With a house still full of empty boxes, piles of wrapping paper and presents that are yet to be explored, our retro film review rolls on through to help clear a path and steer the ship of television greatness ever forward to far and great lands where treasures and adventures only found in the deepest of dreams await. We'll tuck into the Christmas remains before sitting back to gaze at the weekend's celluloid wonder.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 27th DECEMBER

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Film4 1:10pm-3:50pm (2 hours 40 minutes)

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Severed head on a tortoise! It has to be the Weekend!

So in a dark room under the flickering glow of an old box shaped television knelt on a slightly worn out rug, hands clenched around a joy stick as the noise of a loading Zx Spectrum surrounds us, let us be your 1980's super gamer as we prepare to 1Up for mega movie awesomeness, we'll zap our way through baddies with retro cinematic greatness all for an impressive high score and celluloid wonder.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 5th October

Flatliners (1990) Sky Movies Sci-fi & Horror 1:30pm-3:40pm (2 hours 10 minutes)

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Mr Cadbury’s Parrot! It must be a massively massive mighty morphing mayday bank holiday weekend!

So like a spring time garden adorned by happy little gnomes on toadstools. let us be your jolly fat frog sat a float on a lily pad in the middle of a murky pond as we try and catch juicy flies of retro cinematic awesomeness bathe in the sunshine of mega movie greatness and paddle in the waters celluloid wonder.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 4th MAY

Home Alone (1990) Film4 3:10pm-5:10pm (2 hours )

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Another weekend, another retro movie rundown for you guys to feast on! Come rain or shine, sit back and enjoy our top picks of retro flicks to get you through this weekend.

Have a happy retro weekend :-)

SATURDAY 22nd SEPTEMBER

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Syfy 9:10pm-12:00am (2 hours 50 minutes)

Scientist Dr Ian Malcolm reluctantly joins a research team on the island where his employer first designed genetically engineered dinosaurs. Meanwhile, a big-game hunter takes the chance to bag the biggest prize of all - a Tyrannosaurus rex. Steven Spielberg's dinosaur adventure sequel, starring Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite and Richard Attenborough. Includes Mini Movie Moment

Predator (1987) Channel 4 10:50pm-12:55am (2 hours 5 minutes)

An elite military team on a top-secret mission in the jungles of Central America encounters a merciless alien hunter, which starts to pick the commandos off one by one and skin its human prey alive. Sci-fi thriller, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham, Jesse Ventura and Shane Black

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