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The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown – 380
With dust sheets down and everything masked up, we're loading up our movie brush to layer on some thick action, nostalgic and perhaps a splash of romance too. Are you ready for these masterpieces?
SATURDAY 30th May
Baby's Day Out (1994) Channel 4 10:30am-12:30pm
Three bungling kidnappers hatch a plan to pose as society reporters and snatch the baby son of a wealthy couple. However, the infant escapes on to the streets of New York, evading the crooks' every attempt to recapture him. Comedy, starring Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano and Brian Haley.
Chicken Run (2000) BBC One 1:40pm-3:00pm
A headstrong chicken and her fellow fowls ponder how to escape from a grim Yorkshire farm before the evil farmer's wife can turn them into pies. Luckily, help arrives in the form of a heroic American rooster who promises to show them how to fly. Nick Park's animated comedy, with the voices of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson and Jane Horrocks.
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Melty McMelt Melt! With another steamer of a week that saw more icecream melting down our fingers than made it into our messy mouths, it's that time again once more to dive into all the films heading our way this weekend and pick out our very faves! Let's take a look...
SATURDAY 27th July
Small Soldiers (1998) E4 10:00am-12:10pm
A computer chip brings a squad of toy soldiers to life, causing mayhem for their owner. Children's adventure, with Kirsten Dunst and Gregory Smith. and the voice of Tommy Lee Jones.
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Cinnamon bagels! Is it the weekend?
So on a blistering hot sunny afternoon tucked away in the rear of a bustling garden party as youngsters run a muck with water pistols and elders fall foul of drunken shenanigans let us be your ever so manly expert at everything Barbeque Chef as we light our coals with retro movie magic, we'll cook until tastefully charcoaled mouthfuls of cinematic classics before we fall into a deep meat coma of celluloid wonder.
Have a happy retro weekend!
SATURDAY 12th JULY
Beethoven (1991) ITV2 2:40pm-4:25pm (1 hour 45 minutes)
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Yoinks! It's weekend time hurray!
So, overlooking a scrap heap full of old rusting spring beds, corrugated iron roofing and crushed up blocks of unrecognisable cars. Let us be your Iron Giant, standing higher than your Nanaâs house with a head bigger than a citron 2cv with eyes that shoot beams of light like Mulder and Scully's torches from the X-Files and hands like J.C.B diggers. Let's sift through the wreckage for retro movie mayhem so we can chomp down on great metal chunks of cinematic greatness to fill our robotic hunger for celluloid wonder.
Have a happy retro weekend!
SATURDAY 25th August
Problem Child (1990) ITV London 1:25pm-3:00pm (1 hour 35 minutes)
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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)
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Oh great googlymoogly! It's the weekend yay!
So, just like anxious, ears perky, eyes wide, tails wagging, waiting patiently dogs for their morning walkies. Let us strap on your leash and guide you through a lush green retro field of cinematic glory.
Have a happy retro weekend :-)
SATURDAY 5th JANUARY
Bugsy Malone (1976) More4 1:15pm-3:05pm (1 hour 50 minutes)
Alan Parker's slapstick musical comedy, featuring a cast composed entirely of children and following a war between rival gangsters in 1920s New York - fought with custard pies and cream-firing Tommy guns. When a slick mobster acquires devastating new weapons, his arch rival enlists the aid of a small-time chancer to steal them. Starring Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger and John Cassisi, with Jodie Foster in an early appearance.