Back to the Future Marathon

Overview

Charge the flux capacitor folks. Less than a month before The Astor is scheduled to shut up shop, its programmers are taking audiences Back to the Future. This Sunday March 14, Melbourne’s favourite repertory cinema is screening all three parts of Robert Zemeckis's iconic time travel trilogy, for the bargain basement ticket price of just $25.

The afternoon begins, as you'd expect, with the original Back to the Future, one of the greatest movies to come out of the 1980s, and one of the most entertaining time travel movies ever made. After that, get a glimpse of the far distant future in Part Two: the year 2015! (Seriously, aren’t we all meant to be riding around on hoverboards right now?)

Poor predictions aside, Part Two is a seriously underrated flick — it’s the rare sort of sequel that actually enhances your enjoyment of the first film. The same can’t quite be said of Part Three, unfortunately, although if you can make it past the whole Wild West shtick, it’s still pretty entertaining.