Run to ‘keep old brain fit’
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GOING for a run in older age can get your brain in shape as well as your body.
Older adults perform better on thinking and memory tests after just six months of aerobic fitness.
Dr Marc Poulin, of Calgary University in Canada, said: “It may get blood moving to the brain.”
With the plutonium-powered pairing of Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd as a high school loser and his nutty professor, a souped-up Delorean car, ridiculously catchy Huey Lewis song and school bully based on Donald Trump, this is the ultimate time travel teen comedy.
In this sunnily optimistic and brightly coloured romp, the small bear with the huge heart returns with the family film of the year. The fabulous and funny sequel managed to improve on the wonderful first film by hiring Hugh Grant’s genius for light comedy as the villain.
A smart, slick celebration of the joys of bunking off in which high schoolers Matthew Broderick and Mia Sara take Alan Ruck for a spin in a Ferrari around Chicago. They watch a baseball game, admire fine art and star in a street parade. All school days should be like this.
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Bill Murray’s finest couple of hours will warm you up on the chilliest day. He stars as a cynical TV weatherman living the same snowbound day over while failing to romance the delightful Andie Macdowell. Succeeds in being funnier, warmer and richer with each successive watch.
The sweet-toothed musical fantasy stars uniquely talented Gene Wilder as mysteri chocolate chief Willy Wonka. And this inve adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1964 book is fa superior to Tim Burton’s 2005 remake, w Roy Kinnear in a scene-stealing supportin
This all singing and dancing musical masterpiece is the most joyous celebration of Hollywood to light up the silver screen.
As Gene Kelly romances Debbie Reynolds, and Jean Hagen is deliciously wicked, Donald O’connor’s gift for athletic mayhem turns Make ‘Em Laugh into a riotous side-splitting routine.
Screen magic was created when Richard and Julia Roberts were thrust together in upbeat romcom. Shopping trips, polo and to the opera are soundtracked by Roy Orb title track, this marked a deserved comeb for Gere and Roberts was Oscar nominate