The Thousands

What is it about films that were made in the ‘80s that makes them so damn… so damn… great! South Bank Parklands are providing your film fix with an ‘80s movie marathon as part of the Expo 88 anniversary.

Get outdoors and let the intoxicating combination of Queensland sun and movie escapism take you over like the Nothing as you chase the dragon with movie memoir masterpiece The NeverEnding Story (1pm). If giant white puppet dragons don’t get you going perhaps the “state-of-the-art” special effects of ET (3pm) will! There is always ol’ favorite Back to the Future (5pm) to fall back.

And come 7pm you can hark back to all those memories of Expo that you’re then four-year-old mind probably had long-since blocked out with the Channel 9 World Expo 88 documentary.