Back to the Future - original teaser trailer

A definitively eighties teaser trailer, for the greatest time travel movie.

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six great things to watch on netflix uk this week

There has been much excitement over the revival of Arrested Development on Netflix this past weekend.  But what should you watch once you've binged on that virtual boxset?  Here are six other great things to watch on the streaming service this week...

The (possibly superior) American version of The Killing moves from C4 to Netflix for its third season, and each episode will be available the day after it debuts on AMC in the US.

Head back to the eighties with Explorers; and join a very young Ethan Hawk and River Phoenix as they build a spaceship.

                                            

With a lot of fanfare Sky launched its Sky Movies Disney channel earlier this year, providing great Disney movies old and new. About the same time, in a rather quieter move Netflix snapped up the UK streaming rights for much of the same content. It's true that Sky will have the latest Disney/Pixar movies first, but a lot of the older content is shared across the two platforms.  Perhaps the best of the Disney classics currently on Netflix is the heartbreaking Dumbo; meanwhile the best of the more recent releases is Pixar's modern masterpiece Wall-e.

A refreshing unsentimental look at what happens when a young guy is given a 50/50 chance of living.

Magic Mike is a trashy, glossy, exploitation flick of the finest kind.  Pardon the lame pun, and strip away the beautifully shot routines - and there is some solid storytelling here.  Most definitely one in the eye to all those critics that have dismissed the acting abilities of Mathew McConaughey, Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer in the past. 

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