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Mad Science & Eccentric Invention in 1980s Cinema

Off-screen the 1980s was giving consumers a technological revolution - videotapes, mobile phones, home computers and video game consoles. On-screen we saw this sudden attraction to scientific exploration and life-changing tech characterised by a number of memorable scientists and inventors. Here we check out some of our favourites.

Doc Brown. Seth Brundle. Wayne Szalinski. These guys made science fun (and, at times, quite scary!).

The poster boy for this niche is undoubtedly Back to the Future’s Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), the time machine inventor with the wild white hair who inadvertently sends Marty McFly on a mission into the past to ensure his mother and father fall in love. But he isn’t the only memorable character to dabble with science and similarly get into a bit of bother.

What "mad scientist" springs to mind for you?

Seth Brundle, a narcissistic but brilliant scientist, has developed a transportation device that, after initial tests, appears to only work with inanimate objects. Further development sees him successfully transport a baboon prompting him to consider using the device himself. However, when he does so, a house fly finds its way into the transportation pod with him causing his agonisingly slow transformation into a humanoid-fly crossbreed. Amongst other things, it plays havoc with his love life!

Check out the Top 10 Eccentric Inventors & Mad Scientists In 1980s Film.

Steven Spielberg, Michelle Williams teaming for coming-of-age drama

Extract from article by Borys Kit:

Spielberg wrote the script with frequent collaborator Tony Kushner and will direct the project, which is loosely based on the filmmaker's formative years growing up in Arizona.

Many people have wanted and tried to be the next Steven Spielberg, but now someone may actually be Steven Spielberg… as a teen boy, that is.

According to multiple sources, Spielberg is working on his post-West Side Story movie project, a story rooted in his childhood that he wrote Tony Kushner, a frequent collaborator with whom he worked on films such as Munich and Lincoln, and will direct.

The filmmaking legend is enlisting four-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams as one of the leads and, under the radar, is conducting test screenings for young actors that would star in the modestly-budgeted untitled drama that said to be loosely based by the filmmaker’s formative years and by his relationship with his parents.

[Continue reading at The Hollywood Reporter]

Goldie Hawn: ‘I was born with a high set point for happiness’

Extract from article by Amy Fleming:

Goldie Hawn is Hollywood royalty, but that’s not how she sees it. Sure, she won an Oscar at 24, for her role starring opposite Ingrid Bergman and Walter Matthau in 1969’s screwball comedy Cactus Flower, and was a box-office favourite for much of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The ultimate tongue-in-cheek ditzy blonde expanded successfully into producing, too, with movies such as Private Benjamin and Overboard. Kurt Russell, her co-star in the latter, has been her partner for 37 years. And yet, she says: “I consider myself more a dancer than anything else.”

Her mother was a dance teacher and, pre-fame, Hawn performed as a ballerina and go-go dancer before being spotted on a can-can line in Los Angeles and drafted into TV comedy. She go-go danced on TV, too, barefoot in a bikini, with graffiti all over her body. Even now, at 74, she posts compelling videos of herself dancing around her home with an almost childlike lack of self-consciousness.

[Continue reading on The Guardian]

Celebrating the work of Goldie Hawn

 

A look at the best Goldie Hawn films including Seems Like Old Times, Private Benjamin, Shampoo, and Overboard.

From Imdb.com:

Goldie Jeanne Hawn was born on November 21, 1945 in Washington D.C. to Laura Hawn (née Steinhoff), a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Rut Hawn, a band musician. She has a sister, Patti Hawn, and a brother, Edward, who died in infancy before her birth. She was raised in the Jewish religion. Her mother was Jewish and the daughter of Hungarian immigrants. Her father was Presbyterian, and had German and English ancestry. At the age of three, Goldie began taking ballet and tap dance lessons and, at the age of ten, she danced in the chorus of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production of "The Nutcracker". At the age of 19 she ran and instructed a ballet school, having dropped out of college where she was majoring in drama. Before going into the film business she worked as a professional dancer.

Hawn had her feature film debut in The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968), with a small role as a giggling dancer. Her first big role came in 1969, where she played opposite Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman in Cactus Flower (1969), a role which earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. After her Academy Award win her career took off and she followed with roles in successful comedies such as There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) and Shampoo (1975), and more dramatic roles in The Girl from Petrovka (1974) and The Sugarland Express (1974). In 1978, she starred alongside Chevy Chase in the box office hit, Foul Play (1978). In 1980 she starred in another box office hit, Private Benjamin (1980), where she also served as producer. During the 1980s she starred in hit movies such as Best Friends (1982), Protocol (1984) and Wildcats (1986). In 1987, she appeared with her boyfriend Kurt Russell in Overboard (1987), which became both a critical and box office disappointment. Her career slowed down after that until 1990 when she starred alongside Mel Gibson in Bird on a Wire (1990). In 1992 she starred in the successful film, Death Becomes Her (1992), with Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis, which was followed by another successful film HouseSitter (1992), which co-starred Steve Martin. In 1996 she played the role of an aging alcoholic actress in the comedy, The First Wives Club (1996), with Diane Keaton and Bette Midler; it became a critical and financial success. She also starred in the Woody Allen film Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and The Out-of-Towners (1999), which reunited her with Martin. In 2001 and 2002 she starred in Town & Country (2001) with Warren Beatty, and The Banger Sisters (2002) with Susan Sarandon.

Goldie has been married twice. First to actor/director Gus Trikonis, from 1968 to 1973. In 1975 she married musician Bill Hudson and became a mother for the first time in 1976, when she gave birth to their son Oliver Hudson. In 1979, she had her second child with Hudson, daughter Kate Hudson. The marriage ended in divorce in 1980. Since 1983, she has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell. They had a son in 1986, Wyatt Russell.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anna G.

Ed Westwick and Louise Linton star in killer rom-com 'Me You Madness'

Louise Linton's comedy thriller, Me You Madness, starring Gossip Girl heart throb Ed Westwick, will be released on Digital Download in the UK & Ireland on 19th April by ILY Films. Me You Madness is Linton's first experience of writing and directing. She also stars, playing Catherine Black; a ruthlessly ambitious, intelligent and successful business woman who happens to also be gorgeous. She lives a life of luxury: architectural dream house in Malibu, exclusive designer fashions, fast cars and exquisite jewelry. She has no need for a man except to satisfy her natural serial killer instinct. When Tyler (Ed Westwick), a petty thief, responds to her online roommate ad, he thinks he’s struck a goldmine. He has no idea after a night of partying and passion that he is really just on the menu as her next victim. Things go according to plan, until Tyler falls for Catherine. For the first time in her life, she also starts to fall for him. Catherine’s life may change until Tyler discovers the freezer filled with the severed heads and limbs of her previous dates. She must decide whether to kill Tyler to protect her secret, or start a new life worth living with a man. Louise Linton says, “This film is a very self-aware, playful and colorful homage to the 80’s and to the films that inspired me such as 'Flash Dance', 'Footloose', and 'Dirty Dancing'. It is glamorous and consummately willful in its decadent style and neon aesthetic. It is heavily driven with dance-along 80’s hits, choreography, fight sequences, and beautiful locations. My hope for this film is that it makes people laugh at a time when we could all use some more laughter in our lives.” Prepare for some serious serious fun this spring. Me You Madness will be available on iTunes, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sky Store, Sony, TalkTalk in the UK and Ireland on 19th April.

The Secret Garden blossoms at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart

The Secret Garden flies to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart following its release on DVD & Blu-ray.

Shooting up 18 places, the 2020 adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel stars Colin Firth and Julie Walters, as well as emerging actress Dixie Violet Egerickx in the lead role of Mary Lennox. It knocks last week’s chart-topper, 2016 animated musical Sing to Number 3, while Roald Dahl’s The Witches holds at its Number 2 peak. Also holding firm are Spider-Man: Far From Home (4) and Despicable Me 3 (5).

Jumanji: The Next Level (6) and Trolls World Tour (7) both drop one place to land just ahead of Sonic The Hedgehog, which rockets up 14 places to Number 8, returning to the Top 10 for the first time since October.

Sci-fi action, Anti-Life claims our highest new entry this week at Number 9. Bruce Willis stars as a senior mechanic on an interstellar ark facing a brand-new threat: a shape-shifting alien force intent on slaughtering what remains of humanity. Finally, a former recent Number 1 The Greatest Showman drops seven places to Number 10.

This week’s Official Film Chart online show features a sneak peek at critically acclaimed comedy-drama The Climb, starring Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino in a hilarious true-to-life bromance. The Climb is available to Download & Keep from 1^st March.

Now, as well as OfficialCharts.com, the Official Film Chart can also be found on FindAnyFilm.com - the ultimate site for Film and TV fans to discover all the legal ways to buy the entertainment they want on disc and digital formats.

The Official Film Chart Top 10 – 24^th February 2021

LW	Pos	Title	Label
19	1	THE SECRET GARDEN	UNIVERSAL PICTURES
2	2	ROALD DAHL'S THE WITCHES	WARNER HOME VIDEO
1	3	SING	UNIVERSAL PICTURES
4	4	SPIDER-MAN - FAR FROM HOME	SONY PICTURES HE
5	5	DESPICABLE ME 3	UNIVERSAL PICTURES
7	6	JUMANJI - THE NEXT LEVEL	SONY PICTURES HE
8	7	TROLLS WORLD TOUR	DREAMWORKS ANIMATION
22	8	SONIC THE HEDGEHOG	PARAMOUNT
NEW	9	ANTI-LIFE	SIGNATURE ENTERTAINMENT
3	10	THE GREATEST SHOWMAN	20TH CENTURY FOX HE

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