Dissecting The 80s

It's Andrew Programs The Show In The Month Of April (APTSITMOA), so we're venturing to the land of Oz in the absolutely terrifying Return to Oz!

What's going on with the wheelers? Why are all of these character designs SO scary? Why is TickTock fiction's greatest character? All this and more!

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Keywords: Return to Oz, Fairuza Balk, TickTok, Movie, Retro, 80s, Podcast, Eighties

We wrap up Russell-Mania (Oops, All Carpenters) with a great episode on a masterpiece: The Thing!

What is up with that hat? Is this peak Kurt hair/beard? How amazing are these effects? (Completely!) All this and more!

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Keywords: Kurt Russell, John Carpenter, Movie, Retro, 80s, Podcast, Eighties

We're continuing our new theme month in honor of Kurt Russell’s 70th Birthday: Russell-Mania! (Oops, all Carpenters).

We’re celebrating one of our favorite Star/Director combos in cinema, Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. Up this week is Escape from New York - basically a video game! Why isn't there any They Live in this soup? What's Donald Pleasance doing in that sling? Who's the Duke of New York? What's John Carpenter think about pro wrestling?

All this and more!

It's a brand new theme month in honor of Kurt Russell's 70th Birthday: Russell-Mania! (Oops, all Carpenters).

We're celebrating one of our favorite Star/Director combos in cinema, Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. Up first is the wacky, weird and wonderful Big Trouble in Little China, featuring perhaps Kurt's coolest performance, plus Kim Cattrall and the great, undersung Dennis Dunn!

All this and more!

Favorites-bruary continues with Tripp's Pick: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which turns 35 this year!

Is Ferris an asshole? How are they paying for this day? What is the timeline? Why did they originally have the art museum last?!

It's the start of a new tradition: Favorites-bruary!

Each February, we'll each feature one of our favorite movies! Andrew's up first with Little Shop of Horrors, the 1988 musical version of Corman's crazy plant flick. How great is Rick Moranis? Finding the bones of 90s Disney movies. Dissecting Tripp's musical issues. 

Cannon-uary continues with the "good" Cannon movie: Runaway Train!

What's Eric Roberts whole deal in this? Does Tripp make more than one Soul Asylum reference? What's up with Jon Voight's character? Why is the warden SO ANGRY? Plus, we do all our Jon Voight impressions as him from Anaconda!

It's the triumphant return of Cannon-uary, with Sylvester Stallone's bizarro-world version of Beverly Hills Cop: Cobra!

What's with Chekov's matchstick? Why is there almost no plot whatsoever? Who cut this down to 80-some minutes? Plus, gratuitous violence, dummy deaths, and all sorts of nonsense.

 Merry Christmas, gang!

We're tackling a truly odd duck of a movie: Santa Claus: The Movie!

Why is John Lithgow wearing these enormous teeth? Why does this movie spend 50 minutes doing Santa's life story with absolutely, positively no conflict whatsoever? What's going on with the workshop? Why are all these children flying!?