80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

XANADU is one of the 1980s biggest flops, but it is also rather magnificent. It's a cult classic with passionate fans who love the music, the style, the dance numbers, and the cheesy special effects. Tara McNamara and Riley Roberts look at the Olivia Newton-John-Gene Kelly roller disco musical from the Gen X and Gen Z perspective while also looking at the subtle message the film sends about the role of the ideal woman in 1980.

Casual Sex? is a time capsule of women's difficulties in navigating the ever-changing sexual landscape of the 1980s. Screenwriter Wendy Goldman explains how the film- the first studio film to mention AIDS and acknowledge its impact on the dating scene - came to be and how Andrew Dice Clay managed to get the girl.

Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara (Gen X) and Riley Roberts (Gen Z) look at the 1989 original and the 2019 remake & identify why the reboot is so good, why it's more Gen X than you think, and why teens love horror movies.

THE BREAKFAST CLUB is the most iconic '80s movie of all time, giving teens an authentic voice in film. However, it's all kinds of wrong, and impacted a generation deeply, of which society still feels the consequences. Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara (Gen X) and Riley Roberts (Gen Z) reveal why this classic was so damaging in ways most people have never realized.

More than 30 years after its release, Dirty Dancing is still a film audiences love, if not obsess over. Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara (Gen X) and Riley Roberts (Gen Z) break down why it still holds up and all the good it did for young women in 1987. But, we also shift the perspective on Baby and show all the messed up notions in the film as well...as well as why the film is also an example of What's Wrong with Your Grandparents.

BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE was released in 1989, a time when the teen comedy genre was considered to be dead. Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara (Gen X) and Riley Roberts (Gen Z) look at how the Keanu Reeves-Alex Winter comedy holds up today, the word that entered our permanent vocabulary, and how that one cringey '80s moment would play out among teens today.

Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara (Gen X) and Riley Roberts (Gen Z) look at SCROOGED on its 30th Anniversary, and reflect how it's so '80s, how it's held up, and why Frank Cross got dumped unfairly.

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"Christmas in the Movies" author Jeremy Arnold joins us to give the definitive answer of whether or not DIE HARD is a Christmas movie and WHY. We also look at what makes the Bruce Willis classic so '80s and examine how it holds up today. What is the favorite Christmas movie of a guy who wrote the book on Christmas movies? And what modern day Christmas classic is banned from our the house of our film family? '80s MOVIES: A GUIDE TO WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR PARENTS has just a few questions, but so many answers.

Mom-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara (Fandango, Common Sense Media) and 17-year-old Riley Roberts (Fanlala, Reelz, KidsPickFlicks) look back at MYSTIC PIZZA (1988), a film noted for launching the careers of Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor and Matt Damon. The female-scripted coming of age film marked a moment in time where women were realizing love and marriage was no longer their first priority - they identify how it got young women right and how girls graduating high school now look at their future.

Valley Girl (1983) is the most '80s movie ever made. With the rare female director in place, it turns what was meant to be a teenspolitation flick into a romance for the ages. Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara, of the MTV generation, and Riley Roberts, age 17, look at the movie through the lens of today to identify why Nicolas Cage's first leading role is so awesome, and yet, so, so wrong.