1980s

80s Movie Challenge Films 

80s Movie Challenge Week 27: The Blues Brothers (1980)

12th July 2020 Paul Childs 0 Comments 1980s, A Mission From God, art, bicycle, Chicago, eighties, Elwood, Jake, nostalgia, Rhythm & Blues, school, Soul Music, teenage, The Blues Brothers, vhs, witchcraft

It’s 80s time again, nostalgia hounds. Now, some might say that our 80s Movie Challenge (#80sMC) is a vanity project

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80s Movie Challenge Films 

80s Movie Challenge Week 26: The Karate Kid (1984)

3rd July 202023rd June 2020 Andee Dee 0 Comments 1980s, Cobra Kai, eighties, Martial Arts, Mister Miyagi, ralph macchio, The Karate Kid

We enter the second half our Great Year Long 80s Movie Challenge (#80sMC) this week so let’s all bow to

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80s Movie Challenge Films 

80s Movie Challenge Week 25: Wall Street (1987)

26th June 202025th June 2020 Chris Warrington 0 Comments 1980s, bud fox, charlie sheen, daryl hannah, eighties, excess, gordon gekko, greed is good, lunch is for wimps, michael douglas, money, wall street

Welcome, 80s fans! To celebrate reaching the halfway point of our Great Year Long 80s Movie Challenge (#80sMC) we’re going

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80s Movie Challenge Films 

80s Movie Challenge Week 24: Big (1988)

20th June 202020th June 2020 Paul Childs 0 Comments 1980s, 1988, big, eighties, Elizabeth Perkins, FAO Schwartz, New York, nostalgia, Tom Hanks, toys, Zoltar

Welcome back Kids of the 80s, and everyone else unfortunate enough to have not grown up in the decade. If

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80s Movie Challenge Films 

80s Movie Challenge Week 23: Do The Right Thing (1989)

12th June 202014th June 2020 Paul Childs 0 Comments #blacklivesmatter, 1980s, Black Lives Matter, Brooklyn, Danny Aiello, drama, eighties, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Police Brutality, racial tension, Racism, Radio Raheem, spike Lee

Here at WGN, we are a firm believer that #BlackLivesMatter – a message that needs telling and retelling, never more

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80s Movie Challenge Films 

80s Movie Challenge Week 22: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

5th June 20205th June 2020 Paul Childs 0 Comments 1980s, eighties, Ferris Bueller, jeffrey jones, John Hughes, save ferris, shermer, teen

Welcome back 80s aficionados! This week in 80sMC we stay in 1986, but instead of the Scottish Highlands of last

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80s Movie Challenge Films 

80s Movie Challenge Week 21: Highlander (1986)

29th May 2020 Claire Skinner 0 Comments 1980s, Connor McLeod, eighties, Highlander, immortal, Queen, Ramirez, sean connery, swords, the Kurgan, there can be only one

In this time in #80sMC Claire weaves her kind of magic and takes us a hop, skip and jump away

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80s Movie Challenge Films 

80s Movie Challenge Week 20: Chariots Of Fire (1981)

22nd May 202022nd May 2020 Paul Childs 0 Comments 1920s, 1980s, athletics, british, david puttnam, eighties, eric liddel, harold abrahams, olympics, sport, vangelis

Welcome back for another exciting instalment of #80sMC. This week Paul puts on his running shoes and travels back to

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TV 

Nostalgia Done Right: Ashes To Ashes

21st May 202021st May 2020 Paul Childs 0 Comments 1980s, 80s, alex drake, ashes to ashes, chris skelton, coma, gene hunt, life on mars, nostalgia, ray carling, sam tyler, shaz granger, Supernatural, Time Travel

On the tenth anniversary of its finale, Paul follows up his look at the Nostalgia Done Right of Cobra Kai with a

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Cultish Club Films 

Cultish Club: Slipstream (1989)

21st May 202016th June 2020 James Anthony Tucker 1 Comment 1980s, 80s, apocalyptic, Bill Paxton, bob peck, Cinema, cult, Cultish Club, Dystopia, eighties, Films, Mark Hamill, Movies, planes, science fiction

Greetings Geekly Chums! Welcome to our new feature “Cultish Club”, a look at some of the more quirky, under-the-radar, low

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