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
Rampage
On this week's episode, we remember William Friedkin, who passed away this past Tuesday, looking back at one of his lesser known directing efforts, Rampage.
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Miramax Films: Part Three
This week, we continue out look back at the films released by Miramax in the 1980s, focusing on 1987.
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From Los Angeles, California. The Entertainment Capital of the World. I…
Oklahoma Smugglers
On this episode, your intrepid host falls down a rabbit hole while doing research for one thing, and ends up discovering something "new" that must be investigated further, the 1987 action/comedy Okla…
Miramax Films - Part Two
On this episode, we are continuing our miniseries on the movies released by Miramax Films in the 1980s, specifically looking at the films they released between 1984 and 1986.
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Miramax Films - Part One
On this episode, we’re going to start a miniseries that I’ve been dreading doing, not because of the films this company produced and/or released during the 1980s, but because it means shining any kin…
Plain Clothes
Our miniseries on the 1980s movies of director Martha Coolidge ends with a look back at her 1988 film Plain Clothes.
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From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital …
Real Genius
On this episode, we continue our informal miniseries on the 1980s movies of director Martha Coolidge with a look back at her 1985 under appreciated classic, Real Genius.
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Joy of Sex
This week, we continue with the Martha Coolidge lovefest with her one truly awful movie, Joy of Sex.
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From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it…
Valley Girl
This week, we take a look back at a movie celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its theatrical release this coming Saturday, a movie that made a star of its unconventional lead actor, and helped ma…
Into the Night
On this episode, we do our first deep dive into the John Landis filmography, to talk about one of his lesser celebrated film, the 1985 Jeff Goldblum/Michelle Pfeiffer morbid comedy Into the Night.
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Up the Academy
This week's episode takes a look back at the career of trailblazing independent filmmaker Robert Downey, father of Robert Downey, Jr., and his single foray into the world of Hollywood filmmaking, Mad…
O.C and Stiggs
On this episode, we talk about the great American filmmaker Robert Altman, and what is arguably the worst movie of his six decade, thirty-five film career: his 1987 atrocity O.C. and Stiggs.
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Vestron Pictures - Part Three
This week, we finish our three part episode on the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures.
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The movies discussed on this week's episode are:
The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm (19…
Vestron Pictures - Part Two
We continue our look back at the movies released by independent distributor Vestron Pictures, focusing on their 1988 releases.
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The movies discussed on this episode, all released by Vestr…
Vestron Pictures - Part One
The first of a two-part series on the short-lived 80s American distribution company responsible for Dirty Dancing.
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The movies covered on this episode:
Alpine (1987, Fredi M. Murer)
Anna …
The Marvel Cinematic Universe of the 1980s
This week, we talk about the 1980s Marvel Cinematic Universe that could have been, and eventually was.
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From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it…
The Abyss
On this, our 100th episode, we eschew any silly self-congratulatory show to get right into one of James Cameron's most under appreciated films, his 1989 anti-nuke allegory The Abyss.
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Escape to Victory
For our second episode of 2023, we look back, as we did with Neil Diamond's only starring role last week, at the one and only acting role the late, great football star Pelé would ever make: Escape to…
The Jazz Singer
Welcome to our first episode of the new year, which is also our first episode of Season 5. Thank you for continuing to join us on this amazing journey.
On today's episode, we head back to Christmas o…
The War of the Roses
On this actual final episode of 2022, we take a look back at our favorite Christmas movie of the decade, Danny DeVito's 1989 film The War of the Roses.
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