The 80s Movie Podcast
Your ticket to the movies!
Since 2019, film historian and former critic Edward A. Havens III has carefully curated a unique cinematic journey through 1980s films, covering a wide variety of aspects of cinema of the day, from distributors barely remembered and films long forgotten, to the biggest actors and filmmakers of the decade.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 137
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
The Brotherhood of Justice
This week, we present our first remote recording, as your intrepid host talks about his fortieth high school reunion, memorializes an old friend who recently passed away, and a long forgotten Keanu R…
The Brat Pack at 40, and the best Brat Pack movie
This week, we look back at 40 years of The Brat Pack, from the naming of the group, to who is and is not a Brat Packer, and which Brat Pack movie was the best Brat Pack movie. (It's not The Breakfast…
The 1980s Films of Susan Seidelman: Making Mr. Right
On this episode, we continue our look back at the 1980s movies of iconoclastic director Susan Seidelman as we pull the curtain back on the film she felt was an appropriate follow-up to her breakthrou…
Top Five Fantasy Films of the 1980s with author Todd Downing
On this episode, we speak with modern day renaissance man Todd Downing about his five favorite fantasy films of the 1980s.
Collision Course
On this episode, our first episode of our seventh season and first in more than six months, our host apologizes for baiting and switching episodes, explains the long delay, and talks about the only m…
The 1980s Films of Susan Seidelman: Desperately Seeking Susan
On this episode, we’re going to continue with our series on the 1980s movies of director Susan Seidelman, talking about her biggest hit film, 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan.
Brats
We pause our retrospective on the 1980s movies of director Susan Seidelman to examine Andrew McCarthy new Hulu documentary about the Brat Pack and how a single article in 1985 may or may not have aff…
The 1980s Films of Susan Seidelman: Smithereens
On this episode, we’re going to start a miniseries on the 1980s films from director Susan Seidelman.
Like last year, with Martha Coolidge, I want to highlight at least one female filmmaker each year …
Crimewave
On this episode, we’re going to tackle a movie from the early 1980s that, if made today with the same pedigree, would cause movie geeks and cinephiles to lose their freaking minds over. But because t…
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
Our first episode returning from paternity leave takes us back to 1983, and one of two sequel bombs Universal made with Jackie Gleason that year, Smokey and the Bandit Part 3.
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Threads
Welcome to the first episode of our sixth season, the first of three episodes to begin the new year before our two month hiatus.
This episode, we do our first ever Listener Freebie, letting Lee Thomp…
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
For our final episode of 2023, the podcast takes a look back at the history of one of the best and most popular films of the decade, 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Deep in the Heart (aka Handgun)
On this week's episode, we talk about a movie that was buried by one of the major American distributors back in 1984, due to its similarity to a Clint Eastwood movie they were making at the time, and…
Chattanooga Choo Choo
This week, we go back to the 1984 summer movie season, with one of the most forgotten movies of the decade, for good reason: Chattanooga Choo Choo, starring Barbara Eden, George Kennedy, Melissa Sue …
UFOria
On this week's episode, we talk about a rarity amongst 80s movies, one that is an oldie, a goodie, an obscurity, and one of the best reviewed movies of all the years it was released.
John Binder's 19…
The Orphans 6
This week, we look back at another three films for whom their releases would be the only theatrical release for their respective distributors.
It's Part 6 of our ongoing series, The Orphans.
Would yo…
The Orphans 5
On this episode, we’re going to do something we haven’t done in nearly a year and a half. Dedicate a show to films for whom their release was the only release ever done by a particular distributor.
T…
Motion Picture Marketing
This week, we spend a bit of our time on Motion Picture Marketing, the oddly named early 80s independent distributor who made their name repackaging European horror films from the 1970s with new titl…
Miramax Films - Part Four
We continue our miniseries on the 1980s movies distributed by Miramax Films, with a look at the films released in 1988.
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TRANSCRIPT
From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capit…