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We’re your ticket to the movies! Since 2019, film historian and former critic Edward A. Havens III has carefully curated a unique cinematic journey through 1980s films, covering a wide variety of aspects of cinema of the day, from distributors barely remembered and films long forgotten, to the biggest actors and filmmakers of the decade.
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Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
This week's episode takes a look back at the 1980s movies directed by Academy Award winner Barry Levinson, as well as several of the films he wrote in the 1970s before becoming a director.
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Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
This week's episode takes a look back at the 1980s movies starring three time Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver.
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Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
On this episode of The FilmJerk Podcast, we complete our three-part miniseries on the 80s movie production and distribution company, Empire Pictures, discussing dozens of films they announced at one time but never ended making.
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Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
On this episode, we continue our mini-series on the movies of Empire Pictures, concentrating on the films they released theatrically in 1988 and 1989, all the movies they would release directly to video, a summation of the decline of Empire Pictures, and what happened to Empire Pictures head Charles Band after he left the company.
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Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
In this episode, we take a look back at Empire Pictures, one of the more successful independent film distributors of the 1980s, responsible for two classic adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft stories, Re-Animator and From Beyond, the Gremlins ripoff Ghoulies (that wasn't actually a ripoff of Gremlins), and some of the most titillating movie titles to ever exist.
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Jan 10, 2021
Sunday Jan 10, 2021
Today's episode takes a look back at Emilio Estevez's 1986 directorial debut, Wisdom. Twenty-three when he started production, Estevez would become the youngest person to write, direct and star in a studio feature film. The modern would-be Bonnie and Clyde action drama would also star Demi Moore (who was also engaged to Mr. Estevez at the time of production), Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright and William Allen Young.
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Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
This week's episode takes a look back at the spectacular train wreck that was Joel Schumacher's 1985 hit film. St. Elmo's Fire.
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Sunday Dec 20, 2020
On this episode, we take a look back at the 1988 Oliver Stone drama Talk Radio, the first time the writer and director would direct a screenplay from material created by someone else. That someone else was Eric Bogosian, the writer and star of the off-Broadway play the movie would be adapting.
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Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
We continue our miniseries on British film producer David Puttnam and the films he would make or acquire during his brief run as the head of Columbia Pictures, by taking a look at the movies Puttnam would approve or acquire that were released between July 1989 and March 1990, as well as a summary of several Puttnam-developed films that would never get made or released, Puttnam's life after the studio, and a personal commentary on the state of cinema today, and the continual mistreatment of the Puttnam films, thirty-three years later.
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
We continue our miniseries on British film producer David Puttnam and the films he would make or acquire during his brief run as the head of Columbia Pictures, by taking a look at the movies Puttnam would approve or acquire that were released between July 1988 and March 1989.
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