The Test of Time

Tom Hanks plays a 12-year-old boy who wished to be big. We're adults who act like we’re 12-years-old and wished for 100 podcast episodes. Spoiler alert: everyone’s wishes came true. 

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Our hero is too cool for school in the 1986 flick, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

This week, we discuss the difference between a principal and a dean, the way Sloane sometimes talks with a British a…

The first Karate Kid centered around two rivals going head to head in a karate tournament. The sequel culminated in a fight to the death. And the third film, the climax of this blockbuster trilog…

Daniel-san and Mr. Miyagi travel to Okinawa for the fight of their lives—literally—in the 1986 sequel, The Karate Kid Part II.

This movie contains a ridiculously traumatic breakup story, what m…

You’re the best! Around! Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!!! That’s right — this week, we’re talking about the 1984 classic, The Karate Kid.

Listen as we chat about the "best friend" who disa…

A baby is destined to destroy an evil queen, and a farmer must lead an epic quest to protect the child in the 1988 fantasy film, Willow.

This week, Sweetie and Sweety from the Large Marge Sent …

Super Troopers, about a group of cops who'd rather prank each other than write speeding tickets, was a surprise hit when it was released in 2002. 

This week, we discuss what this stoner comedy …

Two pissed off teenagers wreak havoc on their town with murders and forged suicide notes in 1989's Heathers.

This movie left us with a lot of questions. Like, why do cool high school girls hook…

A kid who's obsessed with action movies gets transported into a world of gratuitous explosions and cheesy one-liners in the 1993 flick, Last Action Hero.

Join us as we discuss a terrible way to…

When a dead couple needs help scaring the yuppies who move into their house, they turn to Michael Keaton's ghost with the most in 1988's Beetlejuice.

This week, we discuss Tim Burton's bureaucr…

The stars of a sci-fi TV show find themselves on an actual space adventure in 1999's Galaxy Quest.

Tim Allen loses his shirt, Tony Shalhoub has the munchies, and Alan Rickman does what he does …

A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal spend Saturday detention together in the 1985 flick, The Breakfast Club.

This movie is full of important life lessons: how not to …

Back from the dead, a young man seeks revenge against the goons who killed him and his fiancée in the 1994 flick, The Crow.

Special guest Dominic Monfre (who is totally "the goth" of our friend…

In The Big Lebowski, a laid back Californian known as The Dude gets mixed up with a shady philanthropist, nihilists, and a porn kingpin, all because someone peed on his rug… which really tied the…

Falling Down is the story of a seemingly normal man’s descent into violence and madness over the course of a single day. 

This movie's "hero" looks like Frank Grimes, has terrible trigger cont…

Life with kids is like being on a roller coaster. Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Rick Moranis, and others are along for the ride in the 1989 film, Parenthood.

This week, we talk …

Tom Hanks plays a heartbroken widower, and Meg Ryan plays an unhappily engaged reporter. They’re both searching for true love, and they may find it thanks to a radio call-in show. Just in time fo…

If podcasting about old movies is cool, consider us Miles Davis. This week, we're talking about Adam Sandler's classic comedy, Billy Madison.

This movie dared to ask whether shampoo or conditio…

Solar flares and a ham radio connect a father and son across time in the 2000 movie, Frequency. 

Join us for a conversation about the most amazin' baseball team ever (the '69 Mets, duh), how te…

Eddie Murphy plays an African prince (and a singer, a barber, and an old Jewish man) in the box office smash, Coming to America.

This week, Amita Patel from the Inside Pop podcast joins us to t…