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

Gen X Tara McNamara & Gen Z Riley Roberts look at 1984's Tom Hanks-Daryl Hannah starrer SPLASH, the mermaid story that features nudity, hot and wild fish sex, and a corrupt businessman, all under a Disney label. But, in a sense, it's the anti-Disney princess movie.

Movie critics Tara McNamara (Today, The Insider, Fandango, Common Sense Media) and daughter 17-year-old Riley Roberts (Fanlala, KidsPickFlicks) look at how the 1988 Brat Pack western YOUNG GUNS affected a generation then and now.

Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara and Riley Roberts, 17, identify why THE KARATE KID has stood the test of time, why Gen X'ers identify with it so much, and what it's like in high school today (the answer is eye-opening). 

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Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara and 17-year-old Riley Roberts explore '80s rom-com treasure OVERBOARD, and wonder why no one called out all the white slavery and stuff. They also review the new Anna Faris-Eugenio Derbez reboot and if the 2018 tweaks work.

The duo have been reviewing and covering films for more than a decade on national TV programs like TODAY, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, INSIDE EDITION. They analyze what's great about 80s movies ..and what's super. duper. messed. up.

Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara and 17-year-old Riley Roberts playfully look at why Bull Durham is the favorite rom-com of men and give fans a different way to think about the classic's impact. Also, does the classic still work today?

FOOTLOOSE is the greatest teen soundtrack movie of all time - but does it hold up for teens today? Also, if you've ever wondered how America became a polarized, divided nation full of in-fighting, all the insight you need lies in this Kevin Bacon dance classic.

PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES is considered the best and favorite Thanksgiving movie of all time from John Hughes and starring Steve Martin and John Candy, all at the height of their careers. So, how did this family film about two men just trying to get home for the holidays during a blizzard wind up with an R rating? How did it ever get made? And, do teens today think the movie is as wonderful as we did 30 years ago?

Want to know what's wrong with Gen X'ers? One viewing of the PG-rated TEEN WOLF explains it all - car surfing, drugs, wild parties and beastiality. How did we survive?

In their first podcast, mother-teen daughter movie critics Tara McNamara and Riley Roberts examine 1988's BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY for all its 80sness, for better or worse.