We kick off John Hughes week within #Johnuary with arguably the movie that put him on the map. He had quit his job as a copywriter at an advertising agency and became a writer at the National Lampoon magazine. Hughes penned a short story in…
Next up for #Johnuary is Christine. I really didn’t know anything about this film whatsoever other than I thought it was based on a Stephen King book and that it was about a girl with super powers. Then I realised I was getting mixed up…
Last weekend I popped out for some eggs on the Saturday morning and I stumbled upon a bunch of 80s BMXs lined up outside one of my local pubs. Obviously I had to stop to check it out. Turns out it was an event called…
The League of Extraordinary Bloggers is back. I had just missed out on becoming a regular contributor to the series back when Brian at Cool & Collected stopped the previous incarnation. But now it’s back and it’s called the Pop Culture League. You can find…
News just in. The new Ghostbusters film is not terrible. I don’t hate it. It has not ruined my childhood. Many of the ‘Ghostbros’, as they have been named, may be surprised by that. But it’s true. Despite all the negativity surrounding this particular reboot,…
Masters of the Universe is without doubt one of my favourite properties of the 80s. It’s possibly the thing I am most nostalgic about from my childhood. One of my most vivid memories from my youth is of playing with my He-Man and Skeletor action…
I’ve obviously had to rely heavily on some online resources to get me through this project. There is no way on earth I could have done this on my own. So I just wanted to make a list of them all to have a central…
I think I’ve mentioned before on this blog that my health insurance, Prudential Vitality, does an amazing perk of offering its customers a free cinema ticket every single week. It’s only for Cineworld or Vue cinemas but it’s still an incredible offer. It used to…
I had extremely bad memories of Attack of the Clones going into this. I think I had probably watched it 2 or 3 times. And it is the prequel film that gets the most negativity online in my experience. So I did not have high…
Interviewed on November 25th, 2013 Welcome everybody to the first ever Retromash podcast. Now to be honest I never thought that I would be doing a podcast as a part of the Retromash website. I happen to have a stutter which used to be extremely…