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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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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.
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
In time for the start of the baseball season, we talk about the numerous baseball movies that were made for movie and television screens during the 1980s.
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
On this episode, we take a look back at the life and career of director Peter Bogdanovich, with a focus on his forgotten 1981 comedy They All Laughed, and the love affair with one of the film’s leading ladies, Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, which would lead to her murder at the hands of her estranged husband, Paul Snider.
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Friday Feb 11, 2022
On this episode, your host, film critic and historian Edward A. Havens III, talks about the late, great Dennis Hopper, his mostly forgotten 1980 film Out of the Blue, and how it is getting a new lease on life in 2022.
Read the rest of this entry »Friday Jan 28, 2022
Friday Jan 28, 2022
On this episode, film critic and historian Edward A. Havens III concludes his two-part look back at the 1980s films of one of cinema's truly gifted storytellers, John Sayles.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
On this episode, film critic and historian Edward A. Havens III begins a two-part look back at the 1980s films of one of cinema's truly gifted storytellers, John Sayles.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
This episode continues an irregular series that takes a look back at a minor cinematic phenomenon that happened more often in the 1980s than in any other decade: the one-time-only distribution company.
Today, we’ll be talking about the 1980 movie Union City, which featured the film debut of Blondie lead singer Deborah Harry, the 1981 Canadian erotic drama Head-On, which would not get released in America until 1985 and under a much different title, and the 1985 dystopian sci-fi action drama Wired to Kill, which was both one of the earliest films to star fan-favorite Tom "Tiny" Lister Jr. and be the last film to feature fan-favorite Merrick Butrick.
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
On this episode, film critic and historian Edward A. Havens III takes his Wayback Machine back forty years, to look back at the movies you could have seen after Christmas dinner in 1981.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
This episode continues an irregular series that takes a look back at a minor cinematic phenomenon that happened more often in the 1980s than in any other decade: the one-time-only distribution company.
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