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Herman’s Hermits! It must be the weekend!

So under a rung of gently flickering fluorescent lights, inside a heaving family packed restaurant, at the back of a cue for an all you can eat buffet. Let us be your medically obese, adolescent male, adorned in button up stripy shirt and stretchy sweatpants as we prepare to load our plate with a heap of steaming retro movie magic. We'll pile on gallons of cinematic awesomeness before we wedge ourselves ever so uncomfortably into our seat and devour the celluloid wonder....Burp!!

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 28th JUNE

The 'Burbs (1989) ITV4 12:25pm-2:25pm (2 hours)

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Sweet potato and gravy! It's the weekend again retro film fans!

Like a hunter slowly creeping their way through the woods, lightly treading on the leaves and sticks as they stalk their prey, let us be your jumping, antlered stag as we dash and dive our way through this weekends retro cinematic greatness and make our way back to the safe land of celluloid wonder.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 15th MARCH

The 'Burbs (1989) ITV4 1:50-3:45 (1 hour 55 minutes)

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Curse of a gypsy Queen! It has to be the weekend!

So like a traditionally crafted wooden marionette delicately dangling inside a handmade cardboard stage decorated by crayon, glitter and glue let us be your master manipulator as we attempt to pull the correct strings for mega movie greatness, we'll attempt to make you dance for cinematic awesomeness before bowing down to celluloid glory.

Have a happy retro weekend!

SATURDAY 26th October

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) ITV London 3:00pm-5:40pm (2 hours 40 minutes)

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Bananas in pyjamas! It's Weekend time again folks!

So in a dense green forest high on an old oak tree let us be your busy fuzzy squirrel as we try to forage for retro movie greatness, sniff around for classic cinematic awesomeness and the jump tree to tree sniffing for celluloid wonder. Have a happy retro weekend.

SATURDAY 22nd June

The Burbs (1989) ITV London 3:55pm-5:45pm (1 hour 50 minutes)

The arrival of secretive neighbours sparks an unhealthy curiosity in a group of friends, leading them to go to bizarre lengths to discover the truth about the newcomers. However, their investigations take an even weirder twist when they begin to suspect their unseen fellow suburbanites are part of a cannibalistic cult. Joe Dante's black comedy, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman and Henry Gibson

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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.

Have a happy retro weekend :-)

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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Shu Todoroki! It has to be the bumper New Years edition of the retro rundown.

So as we prepare to dismantle all signs Christmas ever existed let us be your ever helpful fluffy, cheeky, little, fur ball kitten as we stupidly wrap ourselves up in balls of multi-coloured tinsel to lovingly bring to you a glittering and sparkling retro master class of movies.

Have a happy retro New Year! :-)

SATURDAY 29th DECEMBER

Look Who's Talking (1989) GOLD 11:00am-1:00pm (2 hours)

Pregnant Mollie is dumped by her boyfriend, and sets out after the baby's birth to find a surrogate father for her infant son Mikey, who comments on proceedings through a wisecracking inner monologue. Mikey is confident the cab driver who helped deliver him is the perfect man for the job - but his mother is less than convinced. Comedy, with John Travolta, Kirstie Alley and the voice of Bruce Willis.

Flight of the Navigator (1986) BBC2 London 12:15pm-1:40pm (1 hour 25 minutes)

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