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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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Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
The first of a two-part series on the short-lived 80s American distribution company responsible for Dirty Dancing.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
This week, we talk about the 1980s Marvel Cinematic Universe that could have been, and eventually was.
Read the rest of this entry »Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
On this, our 100th episode, we eschew any silly self-congratulatory show to get right into one of James Cameron's most under appreciated films, his 1989 anti-nuke allegory The Abyss.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
For our second episode of 2023, we look back, as we did with Neil Diamond's only starring role last week, at the one and only acting role the late, great football star Pelé would ever make: Escape to Victory, a football-themed World War II drama that would also feature Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone and Max von Sydow.
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Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Welcome to our first episode of the new year, which is also our first episode of Season 5. Thank you for continuing to join us on this amazing journey.
On today's episode, we head back to Christmas of 1980, when pop music superstar Neil Diamond would be making his feature acting debut in a new version of The Jazz Singer.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
On this actual final episode of 2022, we take a look back at our favorite Christmas movie of the decade, Danny DeVito's 1989 film The War of the Roses.
Read the rest of this entry »Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
On our final episode of 2022, we look back at the music video/mini-movie for Michael Jackson's Thriller, on the fortieth anniversary on the release of the album which bore its name.
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
This episode looks at the 1984 debut novel by Bret Easton Ellis, and its 1987 film adaptation.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
On this episode, we travel back to 1984, and the days when a "young adult" novel included lots of drugs and partying and absolutely no sparkly vampires or dystopian warrior girls. We're talking about Jay McInerney's groundbreaking novel, Bright Lights, Big City, and its 1988 film version starring Michael J. Fox and Keifer Sutherland.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Today's show takes a look at the classic 1986 French drama about jazz, Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight.