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Celebrating both the biggest hits and the most obscure releases of 1980s cinema, focused primarily around exploring the narratives of under‑seen distributors, niche genres, and overlooked classics.
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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.
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 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 first batch of 16 movies Puttnam would approve or acquire, released between September 1987 and June 1988.
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
We begin 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 man himself, and how he was able to build a career in filmmaking that would lead him to become the last major filmmaker to head a major studio.
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Nov 22, 2020
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
On this episode, we take a look back at the 1981 Kiss album that was supposed to launch a global entertainment juggernaut, with a movie, a soundtrack album, a tour to support the movie and soundtrack album, a sequel movie, a sequel soundtrack and a sequel tour to support the sequel movie and sequel soundtrack.
Music from "The Elder."
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Nov 15, 2020
Sunday Nov 15, 2020
Today's episode talks about the Management Company Entertainment Group, or MCEG, who would only release four films over the course of nineteen months, while also producing one of the biggest hits of 1989.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
On this third and final part of a three part series, host Edward Havens continues to discuss favorite 80s movies, the state of streaming services today, religion, books, movie theatres, wrestling and so much more with his brother-in-law, Ph. D. student Michael Hourigan.
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Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
On this second part of a three part series, host Edward Havens continues to discuss favorite 80s movies, the state of streaming services today, religion, books, movie theatres, wrestling and so much more with his brother-in-law, Ph. D. student Michael Hourigan.
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