Episodes
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Rampage
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.
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Miramax Films: Part Three
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.
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Oklahoma Smugglers
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
Miramax Films - Part Two
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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Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Miramax Films - Part One
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
On this episode, we’re going to start a miniseries that I’ve been dreading doing, not because of the films this company produced and/or released during the 1980s, but because it means shining any kind of light on a serial sexual assaulter and his enabling brother. But one cannot do a show like this, talking about the movies of the 1980s, and completely ignore Miramax Films.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Plain Clothes
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Our miniseries on the 1980s movies of director Martha Coolidge ends with a look back at her 1988 film Plain Clothes.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday May 18, 2023
Real Genius
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
On this episode, we continue our informal miniseries on the 1980s movies of director Martha Coolidge with a look back at her 1985 under appreciated classic, Real Genius.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday May 04, 2023
Joy of Sex
Thursday May 04, 2023
Thursday May 04, 2023
This week, we continue with the Martha Coolidge lovefest with her one truly awful movie, Joy of Sex.
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Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Valley Girl
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
This week, we take a look back at a movie celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its theatrical release this coming Saturday, a movie that made a star of its unconventional lead actor, and helped make its director one of a number of exciting female filmmakers to break through in the early part of the decade.
The movie Martha Coolidge's 1983 comedy Valley Girl, starring Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman.
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Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Into the Night
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
On this episode, we do our first deep dive into the John Landis filmography, to talk about one of his lesser celebrated film, the 1985 Jeff Goldblum/Michelle Pfeiffer morbid comedy Into the Night.
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