The 80s Movie Podcast
On this, the first ever remote episode of The 80s Movie Podcast, we remember an old friend, and recount how a long-forgotten Keanu Reeves TV movie, The Brotherhood of Justice, which was filmed at the host’s high school weeks after his graduation and moving to Los Angeles to break into the film industry. Expect production anecdotes, personal memories, and a fresh look at a little-known early Keanu role.
On this episode, we’re going to tell a story about a game show, a popular late night talk show host, and a long-forgotten movie that I guarantee you’ve never seen in theatres.
Lewis Teague’s 1987 mismatched buddy cop film Collision Course.
On this episode, we’re going to start a miniseries on the 1980s films from director Susan Seidelman.
Like last year, with Martha Coolidge, I want to highlight at least one female filmmaker each year from the decade that made a significant impact on filmmaking and culture as a whole, and Ms. Seidelman definitely fits that description.
On this episode, we’re going to tackle a movie from the early 1980s that, if made today with the same pedigree, would cause movie geeks and cinephiles to lose their freaking minds over. But because this was made early in their careers, most people are only tangentially aware of its existence, let alone have actually seen it. We’re talking about the 1986 Sam Raimi/Coen Brothers collaboration, Crimewave.
On this week’s episode, we take a look back at one of two Universal Studios sequel bombs from 1983 that starred Jackie Gleason: Smokey and the Bandit Part 3.
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?
It’s a crazy story. You should check it out.
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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