1985 STAR WARS Trilogy Special 70MM Screenings

 41 years ago, on March 28th 1985, theatres in both Canada and the US played a marathon of STAR WARS, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and RETURN OF THE JEDI in 70MM.

This is the "limited edition RETURN OF THE JEDI poster offered to those who attended in costume.

These screening were to benefit various charities, as well as to promote to upcoming re-release of RETURN OF THE JEDI.

At the movie November 18th 1985

Nov 19th 1985 St. Catharines, you could catch To Live And To Die In LA, A Nightmare on Elm Styreet Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, Meryl Streep in one of the few films she didn't get a freakin' Academy Award nomination for, Emilio Estevez's That Was Then This Is Now, Matt Dillon and Gene Hackman in Target, or the still running Back to the Future for only $2.50. I guess that was the movie's way of competing with the "Continuous Non-Stop Action" over at Sugar's nudie bar.

Friday the 13th Part 5 Briefly Banned

35 years ago, Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning, was briefly banned by the Ontario censor board.

Tim Burton's BATMAN (1989) 30th Anniversary

The local theatre landscape was sure crowded the weekend Tim Burton's BATMAN premiered thirty years ago today. You had Indiana Jones, those fellows who busted ghosts, Star Trek, Hulk Hogan, Robin Williams, Rick Moranis, Roger Rabbit, Kevin Costner, and Terry Gilliam.

Perfect time to look back on BATMAN (1989) video, done around the time of the movie's 25th anniversary.