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The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 46!
Mad dogs dirty beard! It's not only the weekend, it's an Easter special bumper four day weekend Whoop whoop!
So, from the Valleys of Beverly Hills like an 80's rock and roll party let us be your spandex clad rocker complete with studded leather jacket and feathered hair, as we stand astride a make shift stage holding aloft our trusty Gibson flying V guitar. As the crowd wait in anticipation for us to shred out retro movie awesomeness, rock out with cinematic mega amptitude and power slide to celluloid glory.
Have a happy retro Easter weekend everyone!
Friday 29th March
The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 44!
Cat stuck up a tree! it's like the week never happened.
So like a concrete playground adorned with grinding rails, half pipes and bowls let us be your ever versatile semi-pro street surfer as we agonisingly gaze across our asphalt ocean, ready to kick flip into retro movie awesomeness, pop shove-it through celluloid wonder and nollie our way into cinematic greatness. Have a happy retro weekend!
SATURDAY 23rd MARCH
Any Which Way You Can (1980) ITV London 12:55pm-3:00pm (2 hours 5 minutes)
Street-fighting trucker Philo Beddoe and his faithful orang-utan Clyde are targeted by the Mafia, who want to cash in on Philo's potential as a money-making brawler. However, they first have to kidnap him before they can persuade him to climb inside the ring. Comedy sequel, starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Harry Guardino and Ruth Gordon
The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 45!
Alfonso Bonzo! it's only gone and become the Weekend!
As sure as the Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti, let us proudly be a parade of dignified Elephants Gallantly marching trunk to tail over the African planes as we search out for you nostalgic cinematic fun, retro movie awesomeness and cinematic celluloid greatness.
Have a happy retro weekend :-)
SATURDAY 16th MARCH
Private Benjamin (1980)Channel 5 4:05pm-6:10pm (2 hours 5 minutes)
A scatterbrained society woman looks for a change of pace after her husband dies on their wedding night, and is tricked by a duplicitous recruiter into enlisting in the army. In spite of the initial culture shock and conflict with her tough commanding officer, she gradually finds direction and self-esteem for the first time in her life. Comedy, starring Goldie Hawn, Armand Assante, Eileen Brennan, Harry Dean Stanton and Sam Wanamaker.
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:
Our Top Batman Gadgets We'd Love to Own
As lovers of everything Batman, one thing that always makes us fall just that little bit extra in love with the caped crusader is his impressive arsenal of gadgets!
Whether he's getting himself out of trouble or taking down the latest villains, Batman always surprises us with his latest top-of-the-range cutting edge gadget that are the perfect tools for the job of protecting Gotham City.
As a bit of fun and to help remind ourselves and you guys of the impressive collection, we thought we would rustle up a little shortlist of some of our personal favourites that we would love to own for every day (maybe not everyday then) life. Take a look....
Grapple Gun
Originally debuted on the silver screen in 1989's Batman, the grapple gun has certainly taken Batman out of some sticky situations as well as keeping him on the tails of those pesky baddies. Essentially a spring loaded hook attached to some special ultra thin, ultra strong wire to keep everything nice and compact, it can be launched anywhere and will pull you up and away out of danger.
Why do we want this? Well, imagine this...walking down the street and spot someone you'd rather not speak to...fire and away you go until the coast it clear. Social bliss! Plus it beast walking up flights of stairs huh.
Star Wars: Episode VII to Feature Original Cast Members!
Holy-Wan Kenobi! Can it be real?
Some amazing news has been flying around the Truffle Towers recently. During an interview with Business Week Star Wars creator, George Lucas, revealed some exciting news that the original trilogyâs main cast have all signed up for Episode VII!
The legendary cast we all know and love, including Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, are set to take part in the upcoming new adventure in the series which was brought back to life after a recent Disney purchase. Disney announced in January that Lost co-creator JJ Abrams would direct the new film, due out in 2015, but the film-maker reportedly shunned the initial offer before later changing his mind. Phew!
Ford originally starred as Han Solo, Fisher as Princess Leia and Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the first three Star Wars films, beginning with 1977's Star Wars and going until Return of the Jedi in 1983. Known widely as the most successful and loved films of the series, can they recreate the same magic after all these years?
Lucas had already began developing the new trilogy before the Disney deal in order to increase its overall value. These discussions with the old cast worked as part of that strategy. It seems now that even with the Disney buy out, it's going to be business as usual for the most epic space series ever!
What do you think? Great to see the old cast back or was it time to move on...again?