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_POPPED-CORN: HE-MAN
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Bustin up movies TV. Click to visit the gobble monkey! Monday, 25 April 2011. He-Man was the perfect man – big muscles, tall and healthy with lovely long blond hair. That’s what every 80s schoolboy looked for in their heroes right? Oh, no sorry, that was Hitler. Every episode began with Prince Adam, (AKA He-Man), explaining the premise of the show: Basically, he had been gifted magical powers by a woman dressed as a bird in order to defend a big castle that looked like a skeleton for his arch-enemy, Skel...
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_POPPED-CORN: KNIGHT RIDER
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Bustin up movies TV. Click to visit the gobble monkey! Thursday, 2 June 2011. Imagine this day at the office – you’re an undercover cop, just going about your business when you’re shot in the face by a ne’er-do-well. When you wake up, some bastard has reconstructed your face so you look like David Hasselhoff. Then, while you’ll still reeling from that horrible news, they give you a talking car. A jet-black Pontiac Trans Am with a red pulsating scanner at the front, KITT was every man’s dream car. Meanwhi...
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_POPPED-CORN: June 2011
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Bustin up movies TV. Click to visit the gobble monkey! Monday, 27 June 2011. Superhero movies are like sharks – if they stop moving, they die. Ok, maybe not exactly like sharks. But in a movie like Green Lantern, if the audience is given too much time to realise quite how silly what they’re watching is, then they’ll give up. Despite having fighting purple aliens, making giant fists out of magic rings and a phobia of the colour yellow, everything in Green Lantern feels flat. But sequences like this, and H...
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_POPPED-CORN: July 2011
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Bustin up movies TV. Click to visit the gobble monkey! Thursday, 28 July 2011. The first computer I ever saw, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was about the size of a large paperback book, jet black (save the rainbow flash of colours zipping across the bottom corner) with tiny grey rubber keys. Invented by balding scientist Sir Clive Sinclair in 1984, the Spectrum was one of the first home computers. Plugged into the telly, you could play games in your own front room! I found those eight minutes quite handy R...
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_POPPED-CORN: August 2011
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Bustin up movies TV. Click to visit the gobble monkey! Monday, 29 August 2011. Did you know that the Rubik’s Cube was invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik? He sounds like he’d be fun at a dinner party doesn’t he? Well he wasn’t – he was probably in the corner twisting a white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow box around instead of commenting politely on the pavlova. Anyone who told you they could complete the Rubik’s Cube was lying. Nobody could do...One man...
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_POPPED-CORN: X MEN: FIRST CLASS
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Bustin up movies TV. Click to visit the gobble monkey! Wednesday, 25 May 2011. X MEN: FIRST CLASS. Ever wondered what Professor X and Magento were like when they were young? Well they've made X-Men: First Class anyway - it's a prequel to the X-Men movies of the 2000s, set in the 1960s during the Cuban missile crisis. Charles can read minds - BUT only when he puts two fingers on his left temple. Luckily Kevin has got a special metal hat that stops anyone reading his brain, so again Charles' power is rende...
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_POPPED-CORN: Dungeons and Dragons
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Bustin up movies TV. Click to visit the gobble monkey! Tuesday, 7 June 2011. The opening titles of Dungeons and Dragons were genuinely terrifying. As eerie fairground music tinkles in the background, a group of kids take a ride on a ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ rollercoaster. Suddenly, they’re whisked into a nightmarish dimension where they’re immediately charged by a fire breathing five headed dragon. Of course, they never made it through. Most episodes found the group trying their best to put on a brave face...
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_POPPED-CORN: Press Gang
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Bustin up movies TV. Click to visit the gobble monkey! Saturday, 14 January 2012. When I was 12, things were black and white. A distinct line was drawn between ALL things – you either liked one or the other, and you once you’d made your choice, you stuck to it. Beano or Dandy. Barbie or Sindy. McDonalds or Burger King. Dr. Fox or Simon Mayo. Children’s BBC or CITV. From 1989 to 1993 millions of school girls lusted over Dexter Fletcher (despite his terrible American accent) while the boys could only dream...
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_POPPED-CORN: January 2012
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Bustin up movies TV. Click to visit the gobble monkey! Saturday, 14 January 2012. When I was 12, things were black and white. A distinct line was drawn between ALL things – you either liked one or the other, and you once you’d made your choice, you stuck to it. Beano or Dandy. Barbie or Sindy. McDonalds or Burger King. Dr. Fox or Simon Mayo. Children’s BBC or CITV. From 1989 to 1993 millions of school girls lusted over Dexter Fletcher (despite his terrible American accent) while the boys could only dream...
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_POPPED-CORN: THE SPECTRUM
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Bustin up movies TV. Click to visit the gobble monkey! Thursday, 28 July 2011. The first computer I ever saw, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was about the size of a large paperback book, jet black (save the rainbow flash of colours zipping across the bottom corner) with tiny grey rubber keys. Invented by balding scientist Sir Clive Sinclair in 1984, the Spectrum was one of the first home computers. Plugged into the telly, you could play games in your own front room! I found those eight minutes quite handy R...