Tag: Back To The Future

  • Spin Back To The Future
    Spin Back To The Future

    Here’s one of those little snippets you often stumble across in old magazines. I suppose it was inevitable that Spin City would make some references to Back To The Future, but this was a great way to do it – using the time change element. Unfortunately, this is the best quality version of the promo…

  • Back To The Fringe
    Back To The Fringe

    Fringe, the conspiracy sci-fi show that aired on Fox from 2008 to 2013 is worth your time to watch, if you haven’t already done so. And if you do have a binge, be on the look out for all the little Easter eggs dotted throughout. Two of my favourites … The Fringe division is the…

  • Great Scott, It’s Michael Winslow
    Great Scott, It’s Michael Winslow

    This clip from the 1986 Oscars has everything you wouldn’t expect to see. Sit back, and watch Back To The Future win a statue for Best Sound Effects Editing. BTTF seems timeless somehow, albeit being thoroughly rooted in the mid 1980s. So it’s odd to see someone from Police Academy here, let alone the Muppets.…

  • Can You Read Clocks In Movies?
    Can You Read Clocks In Movies?

    I can’t read clocks in movies. Or on TV shows for that matter. I don’t mean the flipping ones like in Groundhog Day, or digital clocks, I mean yer bog standard analogue ticky tock type clock. (Not sure I ever noticed that picture of a man hanging from the clock hand before. Good foreshadowing is…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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