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
Thriller
On our final episode of 2022, we look back at the music video/mini-movie for Michael Jackson's Thriller, on the fortieth anniversary on the release of the album which bore its name.
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Less Than Zero
This episode looks at the 1984 debut novel by Bret Easton Ellis, and its 1987 film adaptation.
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Hello, and welcome to The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for …
Bright Lights, Big City
On this episode, we travel back to 1984, and the days when a "young adult" novel included lots of drugs and partying and absolutely no sparkly vampires or dystopian warrior girls. We're talking abou…
Round Midnight
Today's show takes a look at the classic 1986 French drama about jazz, Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight.
Positive I.D.
This episode, we cover a movie from 1987 which was distributed by a major studio in 1987 but is all but unknown today, Andy Anderson's Positive I.D.
Generation Gap: The A Nightmare on Elm Street series
Your humble host and podcasting guru Jeff Townsend talk about the Nightmare on Elm Street series from their different generational points of view.
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On this episode, we are going to comple…
A Brief History of the Nightmare on Elm Street series
As required by Section 107-14-8 of the Podcast Code, every movie podcast must do a horror-themed show during the month of October. We thus fulfill our requirement by offering this first part of a two…
Amos Poe Is Our Friend and Needs Our Help
On this episode, we talk about one of the most influential yet lesser known figures of the 1970s and 1980s independent cinema movement, and how he needs our help today. Please allow me to introduce y…
Prince of Darkness
This week, we look back at one of John Carpenter's lesser appreciated works, which was released 35 years ago this week.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
On this episode, we dive into the deep end of the 8th Dimension to talk about how one of the best movies of the 1980s was able to escape from the minds of writer Earl Mac Rauch and director W.D. Rich…
Walker
We complete our miniseries on the 1980s movies of Alex Cox by looking at his most controversial film.
Straight to Hell
On this episode, we continue a look back at the 80s movie of iconoclastic British filmmaker Alex Cox with his wacky 1987 movie Straight to Hell.
Sid and Nancy
On this episode, your humble host talks about one of his favorite movies of the decade, and apologizes for a chance in plans.
Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2
On this episode, we reflect on the recent unfortunate late summer release of an Easter-themed movie by looking back to the 1987 unfortunate late spring release of a Christmas-themed horror movie, Sil…
The Cineplex Beverly Center
On this episode, we take a look back not at the career of an actor or director, nor about a specific movie or a distributor, but at a movie theatre that opened forty years ago today, that would chang…
Ross Melnick
On this episode, we speak with film historian, author and UCSB professor Ross Melnick about his new book, his 80s cinema class, and five films from the decade he thinks you should watch again.
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From distributors barely remembered and films long forgotten, to the biggest actors and filmmakers of the decade, The 80s Movies Podcast is your ticket to the movies.
The Assassination Game
On this episode, your host, film historian Edward A. Havens III, delves deep into the 80s film vault to visit one of the movies from the 1980s he had known about for forty years but had never gotten …
Young Einstein
On this episode, we discuss one of the biggest hit films ever in Australian cinema, that was pretty much ignored in the rest of the world, Yahoo Serious' Young Einstein.
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Happy Together
On this episode, film historian and host Edward A. Havens III briefly talks about one of the quintessential 80s movies, that didn't actually come out until May 1990.
Mel Damski's Happy Together.
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