Recurrent Events 5/14/16: 'Beetlejuice 2' Latest, 'Robotech' Now On Crackle, Donkey Kong World Record Broken Again

Welcome to your weekly source for retro pop culture news, the Recurrent Events! Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaways over the past couple weeks. I'm looking to do more in the near future so stay tuned!

There are many things I'm looking forward to this summer. I got an exciting email this week and I'm hoping I'll get a chance to actually review a highly-anticipated summer product before it hits the store shelves...(yeah, it is the one you are thinking of.) Might get my boys to get in on the reviewing action too.

Here are the articles posted this week on RD80s:

Top Gun's 30th anniversary is just a couple days away so how about a Star Wars/Top Gun mashup for the Video of the Week? Found this thanks to THR...

Video of the Week


Here are your Recurrent Events links for May 14, 2016!

MOVIES

Tim Burton Finally Weighs In On ‘Beetlejuice 2,’ And Its Chances Of Being Made Aren’t Looking So Hot - UPROXX
André The Giant’s Daughter Wants Joss Whedon To Direct The André Movie - UPROXX
Flashback Friday: Young Tom Cruise Talks 'Top Gun' in 1986 - Yahoo! Movies
Meet the Real-Life Badass Who Inspired 'Top Gun' Love Interest - Yahoo! Movies
Ghostbusters 2016 – Updated Trailer - Pop Rewind
‘Top Gun’ Quotes For When You Need To Unleash Your Inner Maverick - UPROXX
The 80 best '80s movies: 39-1 - Empire
Best Moments of Stand by Me (1986) - Nola Film
10 things you didn't know about 'Top Gun' and its enduring appeal 30 years later - Stuck in the 80s
Still Only One: Remembering the King Kong Hype of 1976 - Flashbak
Cult Film Club Episode 33: My Science Project - Cult Film Club
Geena Davis Staged a League of Their Own Reunion, and It Turns Out There Is a Ton of Crying in Baseball - Vulture
E.T. Reimagined as a 1990s Sitcom - Laughing Squid
30 years later, ‘Short Circuit’ still long on nostalgia - Stuck in the 80s


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