Darren’s Movie News 26/05/09

I‘m still reeling from the possibility that there could be a Buffy movie without Joss Whedon. Argh!!! Did you know…it was 32 years ago yesterday that Star Wars was released? May 25th 1977 saw the release of the George Lucas’s massive movie franchise in just 32 cinemas. It went on to be huge of course, but it’s initial release was without much fanfare. Were you around to catch it in the cinema, or (like me) did you watch it on VHS in the late eighties? And do you remember Flight of the Navigator? That was another slow burner in the cinemas that did big business on video. Well, they’re remaking it - yup, the bastards are fiddling with my inner child. Check out the trailer for the original about a 12-year-old kid snatched by an alien spaceship in 1978, only to crop up eight years later with zero memory of … There’s more