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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 Nov 09, 2023
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
On this week's episode, we talk about a rarity amongst 80s movies, one that is an oldie, a goodie, an obscurity, and one of the best reviewed movies of all the years it was released.
John Binder's 1980 debut, UFOria. Or is it 1984? Or 1985? 1986?
Listen in and find out.
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
This week, we look back at another three films for whom their releases would be the only theatrical release for their respective distributors.
It's Part 6 of our ongoing series, The Orphans.
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Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
On this episode, we’re going to do something we haven’t done in nearly a year and a half. Dedicate a show to films for whom their release was the only release ever done by a particular distributor.
The Orphans.
Since it’s very hard to do a full show on a distributor that only ever released one movie, I collect these orphans like a crazy cat person collects felines, and every so often unleash them grouped together so they can have their moment in the spotlight.
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Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Oct 08, 2023
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
This week, we spend a bit of our time on Motion Picture Marketing, the oddly named early 80s independent distributor who made their name repackaging European horror films from the 1970s with new titles and new graphics to make them feel new. This policy was so successful, so quickly for them, they could jump right into producing their own films within a year of their founding.
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Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
We finally complete our mini-series on the 1980s movies released by Miramax Films in 1989, a year that included sex, lies, and videotape, and My Left Foot.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
We continue our miniseries on the 1980s movies distributed by Miramax Films, with a look at the films released in 1988.
Read the rest of this entry »Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
On this week's episode, we remember William Friedkin, who passed away this past Tuesday, looking back at one of his lesser known directing efforts, Rampage.
Read the rest of this entry »Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
This week, we continue out look back at the films released by Miramax in the 1980s, focusing on 1987.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
On this episode, your intrepid host falls down a rabbit hole while doing research for one thing, and ends up discovering something "new" that must be investigated further, the 1987 action/comedy Oklahoma Smugglers.
Read the rest of this entry »Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
On this episode, we are continuing our miniseries on the movies released by Miramax Films in the 1980s, specifically looking at the films they released between 1984 and 1986.
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