No decade has caught hold of our need and love for nostalgia like the 1980’s. Lucky for you, Will Padilla and his crew at 1980s Now are hosting a show that’s as entertaining as it is informative to learn about, revisit, and dig into all there is to love about the 80s.

Whether we’re talking about reality and history, or the rose-colored glasses with which we memorialize the decade, the clothing, movies, and music of the era, it’s a decade which continues to captivate us. Today we discuss four movies that are less known than your Stallone, John Hughes, or Spielberg flicks, but are some of Will’s favorites.

We hope you share today's episode with fans of all things 80s. We’ve linked their show below, as well as the movies Will and Tristan discussed, so give those a watch if you're looking to catch a hidden gem this weekend.

Enjoy today's episode, and long live the 80s!

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Give 1980’s Now a listen on your favorite podcast platform:

– Listen on Spotify

– Listen on Apple Podcasts

– Visit the Showpage

– Meet the Hosts

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About 1980s Now:

1980s Now is a weekly examination of the importance of 80s pop culture and its continued influence today. We demonstrate that nostalgia alone doesn’t account for the contemporary fascination with our favorite decade. Instead, we share personal experiences and interview experts--including icons from 80s music, movies and TV--to demonstrate the “era of greed” bore the greatest moments in movies, music, television and sports. The show is equally entertaining and informative. (80s is aka '80s.)

About Will Padilla:

On an unseasonably warm day in 1971, somewhere in Jersey City, NJ, Will was born with a fake mustache and a convincing Australian accent. This may have been the start of his life-long interest in performing. • His fascination with music began with five unforgettable notes from Close Encounters, which he plunked out on his Schroeder-sized piano. Years later, he created music and soundscapes for Off-Broadway productions and performances at The Juilliard School. In 2020, Will completed the immersive sound design for an audio production of Macbeth (starring Tamara Tunie of Law and Order and Derek Wilson of Future Man and Preacher).• Stunned in the 1980s that a single actor could portray Superman and star in Death Trap, Will later studied acting at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (as a company member alongside Peter Dinklage, future star of Game of Thrones), at Bill Esper Studios and with Olympia Dukakis. • Having watched hours of Monty Python on UHF as a child, Will later adapted John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost into a dark comedy, which was produced at HERE (New York). Will also wrote and performed with Those Lazy Bastards (New York) a sketch comedy group that he founded with Yuri Lowenthal (voice of Ben-10, PS4’s Spiderman). • And while he couldn’t dance a single step to a slow jam, Will learned to break on a piece of cardboard on the streets of his hometown. • With a passion for 1980s pop culture, and amazing enunciation, Will is the perfect host of the weekly podcast that defends the best decade for media.

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80’s Movies You Might Have Missed: 

- Death Trap (1982) — on Tubi

- My Bodyguard (1980) — Rent on VOD

- The Hidden (1987) — Rent on VOD

- Real Men (1987) — on Tubi

1980s Game – Mixtape

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We're off this week since Tristan's getting married, but we're giving you a sneak peek of next week's show with Will Padilla of 1980s Now.

You can find links to the 1980s Now website and podcast below, so give a few episodes a listen before our interview next Wednesday.

The 1980s are alive and well, and be sure you share today's sneak peek with anyone hoping to find a great podcast discussing the decade.

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Give 1980’s Now a listen on your favorite podcast platform:

– Listen ⁠on Spotify⁠

– Listen ⁠on Apple Podcasts⁠

– Visit ⁠the Showpage⁠

– Meet the ⁠Hosts⁠

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About 1980s Now:

1980s Now is a weekly examination of the importance of 80s pop culture and its continued influence today. We demonstrate that nostalgia alone doesn’t account for the contemporary fascination with our favorite decade. Instead, we share personal experiences and interview experts--including icons from 80s music, movies and TV--to demonstrate the “era of greed” bore the greatest moments in movies, music, television and sports. The show is equally entertaining and informative. (80s is aka '80s.)

About Will Padilla:

On an unseasonably warm day in 1971, somewhere in Jersey City, NJ, Will was born with a fake mustache and a convincing Australian accent. This may have been the start of his life-long interest in performing. • His fascination with music began with five unforgettable notes from Close Encounters, which he plunked out on his Schroeder-sized piano. Years later, he created music and soundscapes for Off-Broadway productions and performances at The Juilliard School. In 2020, Will completed the immersive sound design for an audio production of Macbeth (starring Tamara Tunie of Law and Order and Derek Wilson of Future Man and Preacher).• Stunned in the 1980s that a single actor could portray Superman and star in Death Trap, Will later studied acting at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (as a company member alongside Peter Dinklage, future star of Game of Thrones), at Bill Esper Studios and with Olympia Dukakis. • Having watched hours of Monty Python on UHF as a child, Will later adapted John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost into a dark comedy, which was produced at HERE (New York). Will also wrote and performed with Those Lazy Bastards (New York) a sketch comedy group that he founded with Yuri Lowenthal (voice of Ben-10, PS4’s Spiderman). • And while he couldn’t dance a single step to a slow jam, Will learned to break on a piece of cardboard on the streets of his hometown. • With a passion for 1980s pop culture, and amazing enunciation, Will is the perfect host of the weekly podcast that defends the best decade for media.

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80’s Movies You Might Have Missed: 

- Death Trap (1982) — on ⁠Tubi⁠

- My Bodyguard (1980) — ⁠Rent on VOD⁠

- The Hidden (1987) — ⁠Rent on VOD⁠

- Real Men (1987) — on ⁠Tubi⁠

1980s Game – ⁠Mixtape⁠

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We’re back with our Your Friends & Neighbors watchalong series for the season finale! Episode 9 – “Everything Becomes Symbol and Irony.” We’ve got to figure out who really killed Paul, who we are as human beings, and who deserves their own voiceover.

The hit Apple TV+ series follows Jon Hamm as Coop, his fall from grace, and how desperation drives him to misappropriation.

Enjoy today’s episode, and if you hadn’t yet, make sure you give the rest of our Your Friends & Neighbors recap series a listen now that you’ve wrapped up the final episode.

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After being fired in disgrace, Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Hamm), a hedge fund manager still grappling with his recent divorce, resorts to stealing from the homes of his neighbors in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.

From creator and executive producer Jonathan Tropper, the captivating drama also stars Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Gravitt and Donovan Colan.

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We’re continuing our Sacred Texts series with one of Madison’s (and Tristan’s) favorites, Interstellar (2014). Christopher Nolan’s space epic may include tesseracts and scientifically-accurate black holes, but it’s more than a space adventure. We dig into love, fatherhood, environmentalist issues, and what it means to be homo sapiens in our quest to explore.

Sacred Texts can be art in any medium that you internalize, reflect upon, and find worth or inspiration through beyond the original presentation. These movies or shows could impact you in a number of ways, and they could be Sacred because they are family touchstones, or because of their impact at a certain time in your life, or indicative of a change in your outlook, or for any number of reasons.

We hope you enjoy our episode today. Be sure to give the film a watch (linked below), and then keep an eye out for another Sacred Text entry next month, with The Fountain.

Enjoy!

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Watch the Sacred Text we discussed today: 

- Interstellar (2014) — Watch on Hulu.

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Your Friends & Neighbors Ep. 8 - When DID We Become THESE People?!? – E134

We’re back with our Your Friends & Neighbors watchalong series for Episode 8 – “When Did We Become These People?” Coop gets bailed out, Elena pays off a debt, and Mel and Sam have a confrontation in a coffee shop that ends in tears. The stakes are raised, the tensions heightened, and the emotions have never been more raw.

The hit Apple TV+ series follows Jon Hamm as Coop, his fall from grace, and how desperation drives him to misappropriation.

Enjoy today’s episode, and be sure you catch the new episode of Your Friends & Neighbors and our recap each Friday through the season finale on May 30, 2025.

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Watch Your Friends & Neighbors on Apple TV+, and catch our review of the next episode every Friday.

After being fired in disgrace, Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Hamm), a hedge fund manager still grappling with his recent divorce, resorts to stealing from the homes of his neighbors in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.

From creator and executive producer Jonathan Tropper, the captivating drama also stars Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Gravitt and Donovan Colan.

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We’ve got a preview-review coming in hot, as Madison screened the newest of the Mission: Impossible films, and he’s got something to say: GO SEE IT.

The 8th installment, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has as much punctuation in its title as it has heart-pounding stunts, action, and tie-ins from the previous seven films. You can’t hate Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, and you have cheer for every heroic move he makes in this film.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is out today, so be sure you book your seat and see it opening weekend!

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Go See Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in theaters now!

Find your tickets here today.

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About the film:

Synopsis: Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY

David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Chris Brock

PRODUCED BY

Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie

BASED ON THE TELEVISION SERIES CREATED BY

Bruce Geller

WRITTEN BY

Christopher McQuarrie & Erik Jendresen

DIRECTED BY

Christopher McQuarrie

STARRING

Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman and Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, with Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk

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The finale is here! Dave Franco brings us up to speed while he’s on…well, some combination of substances. We recap the final episode of The Studio this season, and good news: The Studio has been renewed for Season 2 already!

From the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, it’s a show about a newly appointed studio head, movies, TV, and everything in between. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

Throughout the first season of The Studio, we’ll release reviews for each new episode release. We hope you watch each new episode on Apple TV+, then catch up with our recap on your favorite podcast platform (link in bio).

If you haven’t yet, go start our recap series from Episodes 1-2 and onward, and give The Studio a watch (or rewatch) on Apple TV+.

We hope you enjoy today’s episode, and let us know what you’ve thought about the series thus far!

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Watch The Studio on Apple TV+, and catch our review of the next episode on Wednesday.

The Studio is an Apple TV+ series, from the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. This show centers around a newly appointed studio head, trying to make movies he enjoys AND make the studio money. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

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Rebellions are built on hope, and good television is built on masterful screenwriting. Andor Season 2 reminds us what makes the Star Wars universe so special: cultural relevance played out among the planets and people not so different from ourselves.

Tony Gilroy and his creative team brought the world a masterclass in storytelling in what could be deemed an unlikely vehicle. Like so many others, we wondered when Andor was announced who would be interested in the Rogue One supporting character’s backstory.

Guess we didn’t know what they had up their sleeves. This rebel snuck his way into our hearts and minds in Season 1, and the story they brought to the screen in Season 2 surpassed anything we’ve seen from a Star Wars show or movie thus far.

Today we look at what we loved about Andor Season 2, what the criticisms and conversation gets right and wrong, and what we hope for Star Wars movies and shows in the near future.

Give our episode a listen, then go finish Andor Season 2 and rewatch Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on Disney+ today.

We hope you enjoy the episode, and let us know what you’ve thought about Andor Season 2 in our comments!

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Watch Andor Season 2 on Disney+, and watch Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on Disney+ or Hulu as well once you’re finished.

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A little about Andor Season 2:

Lucasfilm’s Emmy®-nominated thriller “Andor,” returned on April 23, 2025. The second season takes place as the horizon of war draws near and Cassian becomes a key player in the Rebel Alliance. Everyone will be tested and, as the stakes rise, the betrayals, sacrifices and conflicting agendas will become profound. Rife with political intrigue and danger, the series is a prequel to “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” which portrayed a heroic band of rebels who steal the plans to the Empire’s weapon of mass destruction—The Death Star—setting the stage for the events of the original 1977 film. “Andor” sets the clock back five years from the events of “Rogue One” to tell the story of the film’s hero, Cassian Andor, and his transformation from disinterested, cynical nobody into a rebel hero on his way to an epic destiny.  

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We’re back with our Your Friends & Neighbors watchalong series for Episode 7 – “The First Honest Thing.” The clock is ticking, and Coop’s injuries didn’t tickle. An angry Barney is justified in rejecting Coop’s weak apology, and the cops aren’t accepting his story either. A big funeral, some afternoon delight, and a callback partially paid off puts our protagonist in a particularly tough spot.

This new Apple TV+ series follows Jon Hamm as Coop, his fall from grace, and how desperation drives him to misappropriation.

Enjoy today’s episode, and be sure you catch the new episode of Your Friends & Neighbors and our recap each Friday through the season finale on May 30, 2025.

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Watch Your Friends & Neighbors on Apple TV+, and catch our review of the next episode every Friday.

After being fired in disgrace, Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Hamm), a hedge fund manager still grappling with his recent divorce, resorts to stealing from the homes of his neighbors in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.

From creator and executive producer Jonathan Tropper, the captivating drama also stars Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Gravitt and Donovan Colan.

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What happens in Vegas…could sink Continental Studios?!? No pressure though. Matt, Sal, Quinn, Maya, Patty, Petra, Tyler, Nick Stoller, and Griffin Mill head to Las Vegas for CinemaCon, the largest and most important annual gathering of movie theater owners from around the world. A shocking secret eats away at Matt as his “old school Hollywood buffet” could spell disaster for the partygoers.

From the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, it’s a show about a newly appointed studio head, movies, TV, and everything in between. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

Throughout the first season of The Studio, we’ll release reviews for each new episode release. We hope you watch each new episode on Apple TV+, then catch up with our recap on your favorite podcast platform (link in bio).

We’ll continue dropping our recaps/reviews every Wednesday through the season finale on May 21, 2025 as we recap one of the best shows of the year.

We hope you enjoy today’s episode, and let us know what you’ve thought about the series thus far!

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Watch The Studio on Apple TV+, and catch our review of the next episode on Wednesday.

The Studio is a new Apple TV+ series, from the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. This show centers around a newly appointed studio head, trying to make movies he enjoys AND make the studio money. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

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