Run time: 116 mins

Computer generated blockbusters of recent times are making big box office, but you can’t argue that good honest charm and wit is sorely missing. Thankfully this 25th Anniversary (2010) re-release of Back to the Future reminds us how it’s done. Robert Zemeckis’ timeless classic combines perfect pacing with forever remembered performances, by Fox and Lloyd

Teenager Marty McFly gets stuck in 1955 thanks to a time-travelling DeLorean. It’s eccentric inventor Doc Brown (the immortal Christopher Lloyd) must find away to get Marty back to the future. The golden rule is never to interact with anyone, or the consequences could be that… Marty was never born!

“Marty’s on a mission to make his dad George McFly (Glover) man up, avoid getting it on with his own mum and invent rock ’n’ roll. And it’s just as good as it was in 1985.” (Total Film)

The fable’s emotional hook stems from something most of us would have pondered at some point. What were our parents like in their youth? BTTF injects this with sci-fi fantasy and humour, forging a rollicking yarn. “Despite all the denim, the film hasn’t dated that badly because it gazes lovingly backwards, to the era when America was the World’s innocent good-guy.” (Tot Film)

Old fans and first-timers over 10 will love it…