Screen Time Episode 61: 24.05.26 - Back To The Future
Screen Time Episode 61 arrives loaded with blockbuster nostalgia, horror chills, streaming chaos and gaming oddities
In another packed edition of RTL Today Radio’s film-and-TV deep dive. This week’s featured soundtrack celebrates Back to the Future, with Steps exploring why the fusion of Alan Silvestri’s triumphant score and Huey Lewis and the News’ iconic tracks helped make the film one of the defining cinematic experiences of the 1980s. Pure nostalgia, DeLoreans, skateboards and plenty of synth-powered energy littered throughout the show.
Cinema fans also get previews of two very different upcoming releases heading to Kinepolis: Good Boy, starring Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough in a deeply unsettling psychological thriller, and supernatural road-horror Passenger from André Øvredal.
There's the latest Luxembourg chart rundown features everything from The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Michael to sheep detectives, Mario madness and warped supernatural romance in Obsession. Movie news meanwhile covers Na Hong-jin’s creature-feature epic Hope, David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino’s Cliff Booth continuation, plus Quinta Brunson reviving Betty Boop for a new generation.
On the streaming side, the episode dives into the gloriously excessive second season of Rivals, tense undercover thriller Legends starring Steve Coogan, and sci-fi mystery The Boroughs, which has already earned comparisons to an elderly-person’s Stranger Things.
The centrepiece review this week is Amandaland season two, with Steps praising the spin-off’s painfully awkward humour, razor-sharp ensemble cast and standout performances from Lucy Punch and Joanna Lumley, even if the sitcom formula is beginning to show through slightly more than before.
Gaming fans are well catered for too, with indie record-store adventure Wax Heads, Nintendo’s bizarre selfie-powered mobile game Pictonico!, and Static Dress’ psychological horror project The Magistrate's Loop all making appearances.
Throw in another Show Tunes segment, cinema ticket giveaways and a brilliantly nerdy Hitchcock fact about the tiny lifeboat set used in Lifeboat, and Episode 61 sounds like another fast-moving celebration of film, television, music and gaming culture for anyone needing an escape over the long weekend.
