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Episode 122: UFOria

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.

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Cindy Williams as Arlene, a small town supermarket clerk who believes Jesus was brought to Earth in a UFO, in a scene from Mike Binder’s UFOria.

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Episode 121: The Orphans 6

This week, we look back at another three films for whom their releases would be the only theatrical release for their respective distributors.

It’s Part 6 of our ongoing series, The Orphans.

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Episode 120: The Orphans 5

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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Episode 116: Rampage

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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The original 1992 Miramax Films theatrical one-sheet for William Friedkin’s Rampage.
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Episode 103: Vestron Pictures – Part Two

We continue our look back at the movies released by independent distributor Vestron Pictures, focusing on their 1988 releases.

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The original Dutch key art for the 1987 Dick Maas horror thriller The Lift.

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Episode 102: Vestron Pictures – Part One

The first of a three-part series on the short-lived 80s American distribution company responsible for Dirty Dancing.

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The original theatrical one-sheet for Emile Ardolino’s 1987 music drama Dirty Dancing.

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Episode 101: The Marvel Cinematic Universe of the 1980s

This week, we talk about the 1980s Marvel Cinematic Universe that could have been, and eventually was.

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Lea Thompson and her amazingly 1980s perm in Howard the Duck.

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Episode 100: The Abyss

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.

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One of the amazing underwater sets built for James Cameron’s The Abyss.

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Episode 099: Escape to Victory

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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Michael Caine, Pelé, and Sylvester Stallone with their fellow co-stars in a publicity still for John Huston’s Escape to Victory.

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Episode 098: The Jazz Singer

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.

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