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It seems to be the year for 25th Anniversary’s although it seems hard to believe that means 1985 and some of my favourite films as an 80’s addict! The first is possibly my favourite film. It is The Breakfast Club and was written and directed by the god that was John Hughes (I'm not biased!) whose untimely death only came to remind us all of his greatness. You can expect a blog posting in the future featuring me gushing about his greatness!

The Guardian has a slideshow and pictures of the reunion screening (but employed someone pretty unfunny to write the captions) http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2010/sep/22/breakfast-club-reunion#/?picture=366940019&index=9 .

The second is the not so timeless but still amazing Back to the Future. This time travelling comedy shot Michael J. Fox to stardom and made the DeLorean a global phenomenon. To celebrate its anniversary it is to be re-released in cinemas on the 1st October and I’m quite tempted to see it on the big screen.

Sacha Baron Cohen is to star as the late great Freddie Mercury in a biopic of his life. But don’t get too excited as the film hasn't even been written yet but Cohen seems a good choice considering his ability to change appearance (and ethnicity in some cases) and his vocal talents portrayed in Sweeney Todd.

Cohen? / Mercury?

Michael Douglas made it to the premiere of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps this week despite announcing he is battling throat cancer. He didn’t speak to reporters but looked surprisingly well with Catherine Zeta Jones. His co-stars Shia LeBeouf, Josh Brolin and doing for the Brits, Carrie Mulligan (I like to think of her as Sally Sparrow) were also there and I am really looking forward to seeing the film if the trailers are anything to go by.

Douglas and Jones

It has been reported that there is to be a spin-off television series of Goodfellas, the 1990 Martin Scorsese gangster film starring Ray Liotta. Don’t know if I like the thought of this, the film stands alone as a brilliant retelling of one gangster’s entire life in the mob. Let me know what you think!