Welcome back to the Retromash Time Travel Week. Yesterday I looked at several different methods of time travel used in popular culture and sci-fi. Today I’m taking a bit of a closer look at some of the cliches and tropes that are regularly used in…
After my gentle introduction to Time Travel Week yesterday I thought I’d get a bit more heavy today. Time travel is a subject that has always fascinated me. I’m not quite sure what it is about it that is so alluring to me. It’s probably…
And so, my Time Travel Week begins… Time travel can be quite a heavy subject so I thought I would kick things off with a review of the event that inspired me to do a week about time travel in the first place. Secret Cinema,…
I was very sad to hear a few hours ago that Glen A. Larson, the legendary TV producer, had passed away due to esophageal cancer aged 77. Some people are just synonymous with a genre, and when you think of quality 70s and 80s TV…
Are you a fan of time travel? Well, try to wait patiently for the next couple of days, or just jump right into your DeLorean and travel to Monday morning because that’s when our Time Travel Week will be starting right here on the Retromash…
I recently fulfilled a childhood ambition by getting my hands on some original artwork from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. James Eatock, creator extraordinaire of the incredible cereal:geek magazine was selling off some of his humongous collection of He-Man animation cels and storyboard…
I’ve just seen these awesome new Honda ads which launched on Nov 10th. Personally I really like how companies are latching onto the whole retro nostalgia wave to spice up their advertising. Things like the Radio Shack Superbowl Commercial from earlier in the year. These…
Transformers Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging. This book was first advertised about 9 months ago as far as I remember. And it got delayed once too. So the pressure was on for it to be worth the wait, when it finally arrived a couple…
The music to Out Run is probably the best ever video game music, in my humble opinion. It was one of the things that really helped make the game the class act that it was. And many would say that Out Run was the shining…
We all love our cartoons from the 80s but what would these cartoons be without villains? How can you have goodies without any baddies? Here is my own personal rundown of the meanest, scariest, terribliest villains from the cartoons that we’ve loved over the years….