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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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Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
On this episode, we take a look back not at the career of an actor or director, nor about a specific movie or a distributor, but at a movie theatre that opened forty years ago today, that would change the course of the theatrical exhibition industry forever: The Cineplex Beverly Center.
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
On this episode, we speak with film historian, author and UCSB professor Ross Melnick about his new book, his 80s cinema class, and five films from the decade he thinks you should watch again.
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
From distributors barely remembered and films long forgotten, to the biggest actors and filmmakers of the decade, The 80s Movies Podcast is your ticket to the movies.
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
On this episode, your host, film historian Edward A. Havens III, delves deep into the 80s film vault to visit one of the movies from the 1980s he had known about for forty years but had never gotten around to seeing: Nick Castle's 1982 directorial debut, The Assassination Game.
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
On this episode, we discuss one of the biggest hit films ever in Australian cinema, that was pretty much ignored in the rest of the world, Yahoo Serious' Young Einstein.
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
On this episode, film historian and host Edward A. Havens III briefly talks about one of the quintessential 80s movies, that didn't actually come out until May 1990.
Mel Damski's Happy Together.
Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
On this episode, we take a look back at the history of the First Blood movies.
Sunday May 08, 2022
Sunday May 08, 2022
On this episode of The 80s Movie Podcast, we work our way through the history of American movie censorship, the creation of the MPAA rating system, what lead to the creation of the PG-13 rating in 1984, and examine how little has changed in the battle for morality in entertainment has changed in the past 100 years.
Read the rest of this entry »Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
This episode, we take a look back at the short-lived production and distribution company American Cinema Releasing, pioneers of two ways of finding financing for independent films and releasing them into theatres, and the company responsible for making Chuck Norris a star.
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
On this episode, we discuss the history of 3-D movies, and take a look at the ones that were made and released during the 1980s.
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