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The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown – 421
It's another Easter weekend and we know you're in for a cracking time! Searching high and low, we've hopped around and sniffed out a whole heap of amazing movies heading your way over the next few days. Plenty of feast on! Enjoy.
FRIDAY 2nd April
The Karate Kid (1984) Sony Movies 9:10am-11:40am
A teenager at a new school befriends a pretty girl, but her ex-boyfriend is jealous and attacks him. During one particularly bad fight, a wise old caretaker intervenes and defeats the youngster's assailants using his martial art skills. He goes on to mentor the boy and teaches him karate so he can face his enemies in a tournament. Drama, with Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elisabeth Shue.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) ITV2 9:55am-12:15pm
Penniless Charlie Bucket is one of five lucky children who find a golden ticket in a chocolate bar, winning a once-in-a-lifetime tour of eccentric recluse Willy Wonka's magical sweet company. Unfortunately, the other winners each face a grim fate when they start to misbehave. Tim Burton's children's fantasy, based on Roald Dahl's novel, starring Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, and Deep Roy playing all the Oompa Loompas.
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Pitch a tent and light a fire! Another retro movie weekend had arrived!
Finding juuuuust the right spot to set up base camp, we find ourselves thrown into the wilderness once again as we begin another weekend of outdoor adventure. Unfolding plastic sheets, thumping in (and inevitably bending) tent pegs, sourcing a water supply and of course....blowing up the air bed, we're all set for another adventure in the great British countryside. Will it rain? Will be blow away? Or perhaps will we just attract more bugs than a picnic in a busy swamp? Only time will tell.
Have a happy retro weekend!
SATURDAY 16th July
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Bubblewrap and boxes! It's the weekend all over again and it's time for another installment of our retro movie rundown!
Like two eager and determined house hunters, we find ourselves searching each and every avenue in the hunt for that perfect property that will tick all the right boxes, give us that warm feeling and become our brand a brand new home. We'll fill it with all our worldly possessions, set everything just so and capture the whole adventure onto celluloid wonder ready to rediscover in years to come and say....look how young we looked!
Have a happy retro weekend.
SATURDAY 8th August
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Jalapeño poppers! it looks like the Weekend!
So in a dimly lit office building. Sat with our feet up behind a desk stacked with papers of non descriptive relevance, let us be your trilby hatted, trench coat wearing private detective as we go on the snoop for retro movie greatness, we'll search for clues of cinematic magnificence. Before we catch the culprit red handed with celluloid wonder. Aha!
Have a happy retro Weekend!
SATURDAY 26th APRIL
Masters of the Universe (1987) Sky Movies Superheroes 6:00 pm-8:00 pm (2 hours)
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Montgomery Burns! It's the Weekend!
So at the back of a bustling busy restaurant amongst stacks of dirty dishes and cutlery let us be your eager to please Kitchen hand, as we hold aloft our scrubbing brush of retro movie awesomeness, let us hose down mounds of crud covered pots with a jettison of cinematic greatness before we stand in awe at a glistening mountain of celluloid wonder.
Have a happy retro weekend!
SATURDAY 23rd NOVEMBER
Cocoon (1985) Film4 2:50pm-5:05pm (2 hours 15 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)