The 80s Movie Podcast
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A Brief History of the Halloween Movies
The 80s Movie Podcast
10/29/21 • 44 min
5.0
In this very special episode, we do something that only 13,948 other podcasts have already done or are in the process of doing this week: taking a look back at the Halloween movies.
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The movies covered in this episode: Halloween (1978, John Carpenter) Halloween II (1981, Rick Rosenthal) Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982, Tommy Lee Wallace) Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, Dwight H. Little) Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989, Dominique Othenin-Girard) Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, Joe Chapelle) Halloween: H20 (1998, Steve Miner) Halloween: Resurrection (2002, Rick Rosenthal) Halloween (2007, Rob Zombie) Halloween II (2009, Rob Zombie) Halloween (2018, David Gordon Green) Halloween Kills (2021, David Gordon Green) Halloween Ends (2022, David Gordon Green)
10/29/21 • 44 min
13 Listeners
10 Comments
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Walker
The 80s Movie Podcast
09/29/22 • 27 min
5.0
We complete our miniseries on the 1980s movies of Alex Cox by looking at his most controversial film.
09/29/22 • 27 min
7 Listeners
5 Comments
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Who in the Hell Was Alan Smithee, and Why Did He Make So Many Bad Movies
The 80s Movie Podcast
11/12/21 • 47 min
5.0
On this very special episode of the podcast, we discuss the life, career, and death of Alan Smithee, one of the most prolific filmmakers of the 1980s... who never actually directed a film, or, really, ever even existed. It's a twisted tale of incompetence, greed, and saving face.
----more---- The movies discussed in this episode: Accidental Love (2015, Stephen Greene) An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998, Alan Smithee) Appointment With Fear (1985, Alan Smithee) The Barking Dog (1978, Alan Smithee) The Birds II (1994, Alan Smithee) Catchfire (1990, Alan Smithee) City in Fear (1980, Alan Smithee) Death of a Gunfighter (1969, Alan Smithee) Dune (1984, David Lynch) Eep! (2010, Ellen Smith) Exposed (2016, Declan Dale) Fade In (1975, Alan Smithee) Ghost Fever (1987, Alan Smithee) The Guardian (1990, William Friedkin) Gunhead (1989, Alan Smithee) Gypsy Angels (1980, Alan Smithee) Heat (1995, Michael Mann) Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1994, Alan Smithee) I Love New York (1987, Alan Smithee) The Insider (1999, Michael Mann) Let's Get Harry (1986, Alan Smithee) Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987, Alan Smithee) New York Ninja (1984/2021, John Liu) The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990, Alan Smithee) Stitches (1985, Alan Smithee) Student Bodies (1981, Mickey Rose) Supernova (2000, Thomas Lee) Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983, John Landis) Woman Wanted (1999, Alan Smithee)
11/12/21 • 47 min
7 Listeners
5 Comments
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Baseball Movies of the 1980s
The 80s Movie Podcast
03/14/22 • 36 min
4.0
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.
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Movies discussed during this episode include:
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987, Mike Newell) Blue Skies Again (1983, Richard Michaels) Brewster's Millions (1985, Walter Hill) Bull Durham (1988, Ron Shelton) The Comeback Kid (1980, Peter Levin) Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige (1981, Richard A. Colla) Eight Men Out (1988, John Sayles) Field of Dreams (1989, Phil Alden Robinson) Long Gone (1987, Martin Davidson) Major League (1989, David S. Ward) The Natural (1984, Barry Levinson) Night Game (1989, Peter Masterson) Only the Ball Was White (1981, Ken Solarz) The Slugger's Wife (1985, Hal Ashby) Stealing Home (1988, Steven Kampmann and William Porter [as Will Aldis]) Tiger Town (1983, Alan Shapiro) Trading Hearts (1988, Neil Leifer) A Winner Never Quits (1986, Mel Damski)
03/14/22 • 36 min
6 Listeners
5 Comments
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A Brief History of the First Blood Movies
The 80s Movie Podcast
05/23/22 • 38 min
5.0
On this episode, we take a look back at the history of the First Blood movies.
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From its beginnings as an idea by Penn State English student David Morrell in 1968 to its publication as a novel in 1972, First Blood would spend nearly a decade in development in hell, attracting filmmakers like Richard Brooks (The Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Elmer Gantry, In Cold Blood), John Frankenheimer (The Birdman of Alcatraz, Black Sunday, The Manchurian Candidate), Sydney Pollack (They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were), and Martin Ritt (Hud, The Long Hot Summer), before it would finally go into production in Canada in 1981.
The films discussed in this episode, in order of release: First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff) Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985, George P. Cosmatos) Rambo III (1988, Peter MacDonald) Rambo (2008, Sylvester Stallone) Rambo: Last Blood (2019, Adrian Grünberg)
05/23/22 • 38 min
5 Listeners
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The Orphans: Part 2
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12/10/21 • 17 min
5.0
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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We talk about the 1985 cocaine crime drama The Texas Godfather, featuring Vince Edwards and Paul L. Smith, the 1986 comedy Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter, starring Paul Sorvino, Abe Vigoda and Lorne Greene, and the 1986 gender switch comedy Willy/Milly (aka I Was a Teenage Boy, aka Something Special), starring Pamela Segall, Patty Duke, John Glover and Seth Green.
12/10/21 • 17 min
4 Listeners
4 Comments
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Young Einstein
The 80s Movie Podcast
06/12/22 • 24 min
5.0
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.
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Yes, you read that right. Yahoo Serious was the name of the director of Young Einstein.
And its main star.
And it's co-writer, co-producer, supervising editor, and he even wrote and sang a song or two on the soundtrack. A true modern renaissance man.
We also have a brief history of Australian cinema, the 1970s New Wave of filmmakers like Gillian Anderson, Bruce Beresford, George Miller and Peter Weir who would put Australia on the global cinematic map once and for all, and a scrappy art school student would make, and then remake, himself and his debut movie.
06/12/22 • 24 min
4 Listeners
6 Comments
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Christmas 1981 at the Movies
The 80s Movie Podcast
12/25/21 • 41 min
5.0
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.
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The movies covered during this episode include (released in 1981, unless otherwise noted):
Absence of Malice (Sydney Pollack) Arthur (Steve Gordon) Atlantic City (Louis Malle) Buddy Buddy (Billy Wilder) Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson) Cinderella (1950, Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson) Four Friends (Arthur Penn) The French Lieutenant's Woman (Karel Reisz) Gallipoli (Peter Weir) Ghost Story (John Irvin) Heartbeeps (Allan Arkush) Modern Problems (Ken Shapiro) Montenegro (Dušan Makavejev) My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle) Napoleon (1927, Abel Gance) Neighbors (John G. Avildsen) On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell) Only When I Laugh (Glenn Jordan) Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross) Ragtime (Miloš Forman) Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg) Reds (Warren Beatty) Rollover (Alan J. Pakula) Sharkey's Machine (Burt Reynolds) Taps (Harold Becker) They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich) Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam) Whose Life Is It Anyway? (John Badham)
12/25/21 • 41 min
4 Listeners
6 Comments
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The Cineplex Beverly Center
The 80s Movie Podcast
07/16/22 • 73 min
5.0
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.
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The Beverly Center and its flagship movie theatre, the first theatre in America to have a double-digit number of screens under one roof, opened on July 16th, 1982, and the theatre would quickly become one of the busiest movie theatres in the country, and whose success would help drive an astounding wave of new builds and acquisitions that would take Cineplex from a single theatre complex in Toronto to the biggest exhibitor in North America in less than ten years.
In addition to the host's personal recollections of working at the theatre in the 1990s, the 2000s and the 2010s, we also talk to film historian, author and UCSB professor Ross Melnick about the impact the theatre had on the entire film industry.
07/16/22 • 73 min
4 Listeners
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The Orphans
The 80s Movie Podcast
11/26/21 • 36 min
5.0
This episode begins an irregular series that will take a look back at a minor cinematic phenomenon that happened more often in the 1980s than in any other decade: a one-time-only distribution company.
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We talk about the 1980 Tinto Brass erotic historical drama Caligula, starring Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, and Peter O'Toole, and the 1985 Bud Yorkin family drama Twice in a Lifetime, featuring Gene Hackman, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy, and Brian Dennehy.
11/26/21 • 36 min
3 Listeners
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How many episodes does The 80s Movie Podcast have?
The 80s Movie Podcast currently has 112 episodes available.
What topics does The 80s Movie Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Film History, Podcasts and Tv & Film.
What is the most popular episode on The 80s Movie Podcast?
The episode title 'A Brief History of the Halloween Movies' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The 80s Movie Podcast?
The average episode length on The 80s Movie Podcast is 39 minutes.
How often are episodes of The 80s Movie Podcast released?
Episodes of The 80s Movie Podcast are typically released every 9 days, 19 hours.
When was the first episode of The 80s Movie Podcast?
The first episode of The 80s Movie Podcast was released on Aug 8, 2019.
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Carissa Flocken
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Jun 9
Pumped to listen to this show. Just heard about it from a friend. 📺
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Emily
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Jun 10
This sounds right up my alley! Looking forward to checking it out.
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