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The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 271
Jingle all the way! Another festive retro movie rundown has just landed on our roof and is here to spread some cheer!
With our postage sacks bulging like a hamster's cheeks, we're busy whizzing around from shelf to shelf like the Elves we are grabbing and wrapping all the toys and games ready for the big day. With a skip and a song as we go, we'll send everyone's presents merrily on their way ready to be tucked under bright and bold trees as they glisten in the night.
SATURDAY 9th December
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Film4 11:00am-1:00pm (2 hours)
When a popular New York department store Santa Claus is placed in an asylum for claiming to be the genuine article, a crusading city lawyer takes on the case, determined to prove the man's sanity. Christmas drama, starring Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood, John Payne, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall and William Frawley.
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.