http://atwmovies.comenFilm HistoryCopyright Vince Leohttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fc60b2bdbcb1b038400caa061aa0cf6d.jpghttp://atwmovies.comWed, 18 May 2022 08:39:27 +0000Vince LeoVince Leoqwipster@gmail.comJoin film writer Vince Leo (of qwipster.net) as he journeys back through his favorite decade for films, the 1980s!falseepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-changeling-1980-peter-medak--46594202
Later, Russell senses the house wants to tell him something. He discovers a locked secret room that resembles a nursery, containing a rusty wheelchair and an antique music box that plays a song he'd been composing since he entered the house. Claire tries to help, digging into the sordid history of the house, including a revealing seance that leads them to make contact with the spirit within who provides more clues to the 70-year-old mystery that must be solved to find peace.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=927Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:37:52 +0000Vince LeoThe Changeling concerns an esteemed New York pianist/composer named John Russell (George C. Scott) who accepts a lectureship position in Seattle for solitude and restoration following the deaths of his wife and daughter in a roadside accident. Claire...
Later, Russell senses the house wants to tell him something. He discovers a locked secret room that resembles a nursery, containing a rusty wheelchair and an antique music box that plays a song he'd been composing since he entered the house. Claire tries to help, digging into the sordid history of the house, including a revealing seance that leads them to make contact with the spirit within who provides more clues to the 70-year-old mystery that must be solved to find peace.]]>2043falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/house-ii-the-second-story-1987--46337814
Flash forward twenty-five years, and their aspiring artist son Jesse is all grown up, Jesse moves into his inherited but long-dormant home with his girlfriend Kate. Odd artifacts about, including a one that is obviously missing from a mantelpiece.  Jesse and Kate are soon visited by Jesse's rambunctious friend Charlie and his pop-singer girlfriend Lana, aka Puce Glitz.

While looking through the family's photo albums in the home, Jesse spies pictures of his namesake, his great-great-grandfather Jesse, who was an outlaw from the old West who earned his keep finding lost treasure, including a crystal skull with giant jewels in its eye sockets. Slim Razor also factors into the pictures, elder Jesse's partner, and details of their falling out over the ownership of the skull are revealed.

An old book on Mexican legends tells more stories about the skull that will unlock the mysteries of the universe and grant everlasting life to those who possess it, as well as the ancient Aztec practice of burial with one's jewels. Jesse and Charlie determine to dig up the grave of elder Jesse to find the skull. Unearthed, they find the elder Jesse reanimated to life, preserved by the skull's magical powers, though looking quite old. However, it also returns the spirits of others who've been looking for the skull from various times and dimensions, including Slim Razor, who is out to claim what Jesse stole from him prior to abandoning him into the Mojave desert to die.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=923Thu, 02 Sep 2021 01:06:54 +0000Vince LeoHouse II opens in the early 1950s, where we find Charles and Judith McLaughlin handing away their baby Jesse to adoption. This is to protect their child from retribution by a powerful ghost named Slim Razor, who has appeared in the couple's mansion...
Flash forward twenty-five years, and their aspiring artist son Jesse is all grown up, Jesse moves into his inherited but long-dormant home with his girlfriend Kate. Odd artifacts about, including a one that is obviously missing from a mantelpiece.  Jesse and Kate are soon visited by Jesse's rambunctious friend Charlie and his pop-singer girlfriend Lana, aka Puce Glitz.

While looking through the family's photo albums in the home, Jesse spies pictures of his namesake, his great-great-grandfather Jesse, who was an outlaw from the old West who earned his keep finding lost treasure, including a crystal skull with giant jewels in its eye sockets. Slim Razor also factors into the pictures, elder Jesse's partner, and details of their falling out over the ownership of the skull are revealed.

An old book on Mexican legends tells more stories about the skull that will unlock the mysteries of the universe and grant everlasting life to those who possess it, as well as the ancient Aztec practice of burial with one's jewels. Jesse and Charlie determine to dig up the grave of elder Jesse to find the skull. Unearthed, they find the elder Jesse reanimated to life, preserved by the skull's magical powers, though looking quite old. However, it also returns the spirits of others who've been looking for the skull from various times and dimensions, including Slim Razor, who is out to claim what Jesse stole from him prior to abandoning him into the Mojave desert to die.]]>1903falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/house-1986-steve-miner--46150459
Cobb underwent several traumatic experiences: his son Jimmy (Eric & Mark Silver) disappeared a year ago at his aunt's home and is presumed dead. The ordeal resulted in a separation from his television soap opera actress wife Sandy (Kay Lenz).  In the home at night, Roger begins seeing things, unnerving things, around the house. They include harrowing flashbacks to his Vietnam War days where he let down a fellow troop named Big Ben (Richard Moll). Ben vowed revenge against Roger for abandoning him to be tortured by the Viet Cong.  Harold (George Wendt), the next-door neighbor, is a bit nosy and keeps coming around as Roger tries to catch these apparitions in the act. Roger is sure that his son is still around the house somewhere and that finding him will redeem what has happened to his life since his disappearance.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=919Thu, 19 Aug 2021 02:22:08 +0000Vince LeoAn elderly artist named Elizabeth Hopper (Susan French) is found having hanged herself in the three-story Victorian house in Marin County, California, that she claimed is haunted. Hopper's nephew, a famous horror novelist named Roger Cobb (William...
Cobb underwent several traumatic experiences: his son Jimmy (Eric & Mark Silver) disappeared a year ago at his aunt's home and is presumed dead. The ordeal resulted in a separation from his television soap opera actress wife Sandy (Kay Lenz).  In the home at night, Roger begins seeing things, unnerving things, around the house. They include harrowing flashbacks to his Vietnam War days where he let down a fellow troop named Big Ben (Richard Moll). Ben vowed revenge against Roger for abandoning him to be tortured by the Viet Cong.  Harold (George Wendt), the next-door neighbor, is a bit nosy and keeps coming around as Roger tries to catch these apparitions in the act. Roger is sure that his son is still around the house somewhere and that finding him will redeem what has happened to his life since his disappearance.]]>1840falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-horror-show-aka-house-iii-1989-james-isaac--45829151https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=913Sat, 24 Jul 2021 20:40:33 +0000Vince LeoAfter viciously murdering over 110 people, the serial killer known as 'Meat Cleaver Max' Jenke (Brion James) gets the death penalty, sentenced to fry in the electric chair. Max doesn't go easily, staying alive for nearly ten minutes as they zap him...1836falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shocker-1989-wes-craven--45660696https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=909Sun, 11 Jul 2021 20:37:06 +0000Vince LeoA college football star named Jonathan (Peter Berg) experiences horrifically vivid hallucinations following a concussive collision with a goal post. His first vision depicts the murder of his foster mother and siblings. When he awakes, he finds that...2009falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pulse-1988-paul-golding--45371587
Roxanne Hart and Matthew Lawrence also appear in this 1988 eerie story written and directed by Paul Golding.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=905Sun, 20 Jun 2021 03:40:46 +0000Vince LeoElectricity lines between the houses in a suburban Los Angeles neighborhood allow an unseen but powerful malevolent force to enter homes, where it begins twisting the house's wiring and everything that is plugged into it to its liking. Eventually, it...
Roxanne Hart and Matthew Lawrence also appear in this 1988 eerie story written and directed by Paul Golding.]]>1800falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/amityville-4-the-evil-escapes-1989--45223966
That sister is Alice Leacock, who lives in a Victorian house overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the fictional northern California town of Dancott. Alice is a bitter fuddy-duddy set in her ways, and unhappy to have to take in her newly widowed daughter, Nancy Evans, and three grandchildren until they can get back on their feet. Alice receives the lamp, placing it prominently in her home, despite her household cat and parrot reacting with alarm to its presence. Not long after, strange occurrences erupt as the evil gets unleashed throughout the house, with the malevolent spirit especially targeting and influencing the youngest of the grandchildren by convincing her that it is her dead father. Meanwhile, one of the priests concludes that the evil may have transferred into one or more of the house's yard sale items and begins sleuthing, trying to warn the family that they are in possession of a powerful demonic presence that will surely destroy them all.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=901Wed, 09 Jun 2021 02:24:54 +0000Vince LeoIn this made-for-network-TV entry, a crack team of Catholic priests comes in to exorcise the demonic presence within the possessed Amityville home. Cornered, the demon finds refuge by traveling through the power cable into a hideous-looking floor...
That sister is Alice Leacock, who lives in a Victorian house overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the fictional northern California town of Dancott. Alice is a bitter fuddy-duddy set in her ways, and unhappy to have to take in her newly widowed daughter, Nancy Evans, and three grandchildren until they can get back on their feet. Alice receives the lamp, placing it prominently in her home, despite her household cat and parrot reacting with alarm to its presence. Not long after, strange occurrences erupt as the evil gets unleashed throughout the house, with the malevolent spirit especially targeting and influencing the youngest of the grandchildren by convincing her that it is her dead father. Meanwhile, one of the priests concludes that the evil may have transferred into one or more of the house's yard sale items and begins sleuthing, trying to warn the family that they are in possession of a powerful demonic presence that will surely destroy them all.]]>1693falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/amityville-3-d-1983-richard-fleischer--45103958https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=897Mon, 31 May 2021 03:02:35 +0000Vince LeoJohn Baxter is a recently divorced journalist working for an investigative magazine called Reveal. Baxter's latest assignment exposes a seance scam operating within the abandoned Amityville home on Long Island, New York. Afterward, Baxter finds that...1867falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/amityville-ii-the-possession-1982-damiano-damiani--45027538https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=894Mon, 24 May 2021 19:28:37 +0000Vince LeoIn this prequel of a sort to The Amityville Horror (1979), the dysfunctional Montelli family moves into their new home and finds many curious things right away, including every window being nailed shut and a secret room in the basement of the house...1950falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-amityville-horror-1979-stuart-rosenberg--44739874https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=890Mon, 10 May 2021 17:43:25 +0000Vince LeoThe Amityville Horror is based on a popular novel by Jay Anson with a little longer title, "The Amityville Horror - A True Story". The true story is, at this point, well known to be fictitious, but it did give the public quite a rise for a while. In...1643falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/poltergeist-iii-1988-gary-sherman--44501997https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=886Tue, 27 Apr 2021 00:18:50 +0000Vince LeoHeather O'Rourke and Zelda Rubinstein are the only players from the first two films to cross over into the light of Poltergeist III.  Here, O'Rourke's character, Carol Anne, seemingly dumped by her parents for reasons unknown, is taken care of by her...1975falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/poltergeist-ii-the-other-side-1986-brian-gibson--44325222https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=882Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:51:59 +0000Vince LeoPoltergeist II: The Other Side seeks to give more back story to the events of the first film, why the youngest child in the Freeling family had been wanted by the spirits, and the nature of the cult from which the spirits culminated, headed by...1877falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/poltergeist-1982-tobe-hooper--44175133https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=878Fri, 02 Apr 2021 22:05:49 +0000Vince LeoIn the film, a family of five known as the Freelings lives in idyllic suburbia – or so they think.  Strange things begin to occur in the house shortly after their cherubic 5-year-old daughter (Heather O'Rourke) begins receiving communication from...2119falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beetlejuice-1988-tim-burton--43926890https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=874Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:32:06 +0000Vince LeoAdam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis) love the little home in the country they've built for themselves, but after they are killed in a freak accident and come back as ghosts, they are appalled to find that their house has been sold to...2296falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ghostbusters-ii-1989-ivan-reitman--43640232
They reunite after being approached by Peter’s ex, Dana, who reports a strange occurrence involving her baby’s carriage traveling on its own. They discover rivers of mood slime running beneath the city, converging on the Manhattan Museum of Art, where Dana works as an art restorer, including a life-size portrait of Medieval sorcerer warlord, Vigo the Carpathian. Vigo’s spirit lives within his portrait, and to enter into the realm of the living, he needs a baby to be his vessel to come to the mortal realm and continue his reign of terror. He makes a deal with Dana’s boss, Dr. Janosz Poha (Peter MacNicol), to secure her baby, Oscar, in exchange for a date with her.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=869Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:41:06 +0000Vince LeoFive years after the events of Ghostbusters,  the heroes are zeroes again, bankrupt after getting sued by the city for the destructive aftermath of clearing out the city of spooks. There’s also a Federal restraining order prohibiting them from...
They reunite after being approached by Peter’s ex, Dana, who reports a strange occurrence involving her baby’s carriage traveling on its own. They discover rivers of mood slime running beneath the city, converging on the Manhattan Museum of Art, where Dana works as an art restorer, including a life-size portrait of Medieval sorcerer warlord, Vigo the Carpathian. Vigo’s spirit lives within his portrait, and to enter into the realm of the living, he needs a baby to be his vessel to come to the mortal realm and continue his reign of terror. He makes a deal with Dana’s boss, Dr. Janosz Poha (Peter MacNicol), to secure her baby, Oscar, in exchange for a date with her.]]>2229falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ghostbusters-1984--43410953Sigourney Weaver co-stars as a cellist named Dana Barrett, who is one of the first in her old building to begin seeing strange things in her refrigerator, causing her to make the call she never thought she'd have to make.  Along with her neighbor, Louis Tully (Rick Moranis), she becomes the conduit for the rise of the malevolent Babylonian spirit, whose aims are to bring darkness onto the world. Directed by Ivan Reitman.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=862Fri, 12 Feb 2021 01:01:36 +0000Vince LeoGhostbusters centers on three university researchers (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis) of paranormal activity who go into business of their own once they get into trouble for their uncouth antics, and their grant money runs out.  They...Sigourney Weaver co-stars as a cellist named Dana Barrett, who is one of the first in her old building to begin seeing strange things in her refrigerator, causing her to make the call she never thought she'd have to make.  Along with her neighbor, Louis Tully (Rick Moranis), she becomes the conduit for the rise of the malevolent Babylonian spirit, whose aims are to bring darkness onto the world. Directed by Ivan Reitman.]]>2053falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/prince-of-darkness-1987-john-carpenter--43175923Another priest discovers the diary and key to the basement, encountering the cylinder and a mysterious book written in ancient languages containing mathematical and physics references. The priest contacts his former TV debate sparring partner, advanced physics professor Howard Birack, to decipher what it all means. Birack brings a research team of graduate students to investigate, who collectively experience tachyon transmissions in their dreams from the future warning about the re-emergence of an ancient evil.
The book reveals the truth: Jesus was a descendant of a human-like extraterrestrial race killed for delivering scientific warnings that no one understood. His disciples hid these warnings until such a time when science could catch up and decode the truth. The church lied publicly, telling followers that evil lies within them and could be controlled through faith.
Meanwhile, the Prince of Darkness, aka the Devil, has remained dormant in the cylinder there for two-thousand years, placed there by his father, the Anti-God. The anti-God once roamed the Earth before humankind's existence but now resides within subatomic antimatter awaiting a time for his son to reemerge to help him cross from the mirror dimension into the material world.
Something's growing in the prebiotic fluid, leaking up toward the ceiling, squirting into the mouths of the students, using psychokinetic energy to turn them evil. Satan's searching for a host to bring himself into the world to help the father escape.
John Carpenter writes and directs.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=858Fri, 29 Jan 2021 01:32:52 +0000Vince LeoThe diary of a reclusive priest named Father Carlton reveals a centuries-old secret sect in the Church called the Brotherhood of Sleep.  Carlton was on the verge of revealing their existence to the Archbishop that Brotherhood is guarding an ancient...Another priest discovers the diary and key to the basement, encountering the cylinder and a mysterious book written in ancient languages containing mathematical and physics references. The priest contacts his former TV debate sparring partner, advanced physics professor Howard Birack, to decipher what it all means. Birack brings a research team of graduate students to investigate, who collectively experience tachyon transmissions in their dreams from the future warning about the re-emergence of an ancient evil.
The book reveals the truth: Jesus was a descendant of a human-like extraterrestrial race killed for delivering scientific warnings that no one understood. His disciples hid these warnings until such a time when science could catch up and decode the truth. The church lied publicly, telling followers that evil lies within them and could be controlled through faith.
Meanwhile, the Prince of Darkness, aka the Devil, has remained dormant in the cylinder there for two-thousand years, placed there by his father, the Anti-God. The anti-God once roamed the Earth before humankind's existence but now resides within subatomic antimatter awaiting a time for his son to reemerge to help him cross from the mirror dimension into the material world.
Something's growing in the prebiotic fluid, leaking up toward the ceiling, squirting into the mouths of the students, using psychokinetic energy to turn them evil. Satan's searching for a host to bring himself into the world to help the father escape.
John Carpenter writes and directs.]]>1878falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-stuff-1985-larry-cohen--42983180https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=854Mon, 18 Jan 2021 01:22:31 +0000Vince LeoLarry Cohen concocts this comedic horror-thriller involving an ex-FBI agent turned industrial spy hired by a desperate ice cream industry, trying to steal the secret formula from a corporation pushing a newly marketed yogurt-like food substance called...1833falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-blob-1988-chuck-russell--42841426https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=849Fri, 08 Jan 2021 10:00:29 +0000Vince LeoThe Blob suddenly appears after crashlanding in a rural area outside of the fictional ski resort town of Arborville, CA. It attaches itself to the hand of a vagrant, Star high school wide receiver Paul Taylor (Donovan Leitch) and his cheerleader crush...1635falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-thing-1982-john-carpenter--42746583https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=845Fri, 01 Jan 2021 10:00:43 +0000Vince LeoThe story starts out in Antarctica, where a group of scientists is bunkered until one day they are disturbed by the sounds of gunshots coming from a Norwegian helicopter, apparently trying to kill a runaway dog.  They miss their quarry, and the...2070falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hidden-1987-jack-sholder--42655827https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=841Fri, 25 Dec 2020 10:00:17 +0000Vince LeoMichael Nouri stars as LAPD detective Tom Beck, who takes down a bank robber gone berserk in one of the bloodiest shootouts in department history.  What Beck doesn't know is that the culprit is actually being controlled by a parasite within his body...1874falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/night-of-the-creeps-1986-fred-dekker--42551459https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=838Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:00:01 +0000Vince LeoJason Lively and Steve Marshall are the primary stars as Chris and J.C., a couple of nerdy college freshmen fraternity pledges who must steal a corpse as part of their initiation. They accidentally end up releasing a small army of leeches, jettisoned...1767falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/revenge-of-the-nerds-ii-nerds-in-paradise-1987--42435743https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=834Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:45:24 +0000Vince LeoRevenge of the Nerds II begins with the nerds who formed Lambda Lambda Lambda at Adams College, leaders from an inclusive fraternity that overcame prejudice to become heroes, as witnessed in the first film. Now they must take their mission national at...1569falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/revenge-of-the-nerds-1984-jeff-kanew--42311120https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=830Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:00:17 +0000Vince LeoBest friends Louis (Robert Carradine and Gilbert (Anthony Edwards) head off to Adams College together only to find that the jocks that belong to the fraternity called Alpha Beta have taken over the dorms after they burn down their own frat house.  In...1793falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/real-genius-1985-martha-coolidge--42196395
Enter 15-year-old genius Mitch Taylor (Gabe Jarrett), recruited by Hathaway to start college early at Pacific Tech. He rooms with the school's prior hot prodigy, a rebellious and smart-alecky senior named Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), who has decided there's more value in being a slacker than to continue showing everyone he's the smartest person on campus. Knight's shenanigans have Hathaway, who must produce the results in an accelerated four months instead of the originally intended eighteen, threatening to kick him out of school if he doesn't assist in completing the laser in the allotted time. Martha Coolidge directs.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=826Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:00:54 +0000Vince LeoReal Genius centers on several students at Pac Tech, an institution esteemed for its technological breakthroughs. They're currently working on a project to build a high-powered laser. The project is led by an egotistical professor and TV science show...
Enter 15-year-old genius Mitch Taylor (Gabe Jarrett), recruited by Hathaway to start college early at Pacific Tech. He rooms with the school's prior hot prodigy, a rebellious and smart-alecky senior named Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), who has decided there's more value in being a slacker than to continue showing everyone he's the smartest person on campus. Knight's shenanigans have Hathaway, who must produce the results in an accelerated four months instead of the originally intended eighteen, threatening to kick him out of school if he doesn't assist in completing the laser in the allotted time. Martha Coolidge directs.]]>1831falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/weird-science-1985-john-hughes--42072239https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=823Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:00:39 +0000Vince LeoGary (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are a pair of best friend suburban Chicago high school geeks tired of being everyone else's doormat and wanting to have girlfriends of their own.  When the traditional methods prove to be of...1830falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/electric-dreams-1984-steve-barron--41956128
Miles's new upstairs neighbor is a beautiful concert cellist named Madeline Robistat. One day while practicing a concert piece on the cello, Madeline hears music from downstairs accompanying her.  Madeline assumes this musician must be Miles, making her want to get to know him better. Miles also develops a crush on Madeline, but he's so romantically inexperienced, he turns to his sentient computer to help out. However, the computer learns about love and then also begins to fall for her. This kicks off a battle of wills, as the device meant to organize Miles's life is set to destroy it for getting in the way of its desire to achieve love.

Starring Lenny von Dohlen and Virginia Madsen. Directed by Steve Barron.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=819Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:00:50 +0000Vince LeoA San Francisco-based architect named Miles Harding buys a new computer to help him stay organized and on schedule, as well as to assist in the design of a brick that will hold a building together through an earthquake. Realizing that it has the...
Miles's new upstairs neighbor is a beautiful concert cellist named Madeline Robistat. One day while practicing a concert piece on the cello, Madeline hears music from downstairs accompanying her.  Madeline assumes this musician must be Miles, making her want to get to know him better. Miles also develops a crush on Madeline, but he's so romantically inexperienced, he turns to his sentient computer to help out. However, the computer learns about love and then also begins to fall for her. This kicks off a battle of wills, as the device meant to organize Miles's life is set to destroy it for getting in the way of its desire to achieve love.

Starring Lenny von Dohlen and Virginia Madsen. Directed by Steve Barron.]]>1608falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/demon-seed-1977-donald-cammell--41824235
Harris refuses and tries to shut down all avenues for his powerful computer system to grow, except one  - the one controlling his fully automated home. Proteus finds a way to take over the test model Environmod, Harris's voice-activated household computer system which handles home security (including a closed-circuit TV system), housekeeping, food supply and preparation, lights, heat, chores, and a robotic wheelchair unit with a mechanical arm. Alex's recently separated psychologist wife Susan (Julie Christie) is in the house during the takeover and grows unnerved at the personality changes in the AI system. Proteus then imprisons Susan within the home and begins attempting to gain more knowledge of humanity by having a child with her to continue its work beyond the day the scientists inevitably unplug it.

Directed by Donald Cammell.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=815Fri, 06 Nov 2020 10:00:38 +0000Vince LeoDemon Seed's story is set 20 years in the future, Proteus IV is a new, highly advanced computer that scientists at the ICON Institute (International Control Corporation) spent eight years constructing as a massively powerful synthetic version of the...
Harris refuses and tries to shut down all avenues for his powerful computer system to grow, except one  - the one controlling his fully automated home. Proteus finds a way to take over the test model Environmod, Harris's voice-activated household computer system which handles home security (including a closed-circuit TV system), housekeeping, food supply and preparation, lights, heat, chores, and a robotic wheelchair unit with a mechanical arm. Alex's recently separated psychologist wife Susan (Julie Christie) is in the house during the takeover and grows unnerved at the personality changes in the AI system. Proteus then imprisons Susan within the home and begins attempting to gain more knowledge of humanity by having a child with her to continue its work beyond the day the scientists inevitably unplug it.

Directed by Donald Cammell.]]>1525falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/saturn-3-1980-stanley-donen--41714154
That scientist is a mentally unstable opportunist, Captain Benson (Harvey Keitel), a flunky from astronaut school who usurped the pilot position after killing the intended dispatch, Captain James. While Saturn 3 goes into a 22-day blackout period in the eclipse, Capt. Benson's puts together the first of a new line of "demigod series" helper robots, Hector.  Hector's memory utilizes unprogrammed human brain tissue and receives its programming via a connection to an electric probe in Benson's head. Unfortunately, Hector also assumes the same traits of Benson, a flawed, murderous, lustful individual who secretly desires to take over the lab and use Alex for his pleasure. Hector has no such secret, proceeding to terrorize all three of the humans in his quest for dominance.

Stanley Donen directs from a Martin Amis script, based on a story by John Barry.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=811Fri, 30 Oct 2020 10:00:54 +0000Vince LeoIn the future, Earth is a polluted wasteland. People have resorted to drugs and promiscuity while relying on off-world food production systems for salvation. Research chemists Major Adam (Kirk Douglas), his young assistant/lover Alex (Farrah Fawcett),...
That scientist is a mentally unstable opportunist, Captain Benson (Harvey Keitel), a flunky from astronaut school who usurped the pilot position after killing the intended dispatch, Captain James. While Saturn 3 goes into a 22-day blackout period in the eclipse, Capt. Benson's puts together the first of a new line of "demigod series" helper robots, Hector.  Hector's memory utilizes unprogrammed human brain tissue and receives its programming via a connection to an electric probe in Benson's head. Unfortunately, Hector also assumes the same traits of Benson, a flawed, murderous, lustful individual who secretly desires to take over the lab and use Alex for his pleasure. Hector has no such secret, proceeding to terrorize all three of the humans in his quest for dominance.

Stanley Donen directs from a Martin Amis script, based on a story by John Barry.]]>1908falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/outland-1981-peter-hyams--41601043
The marshal's wife (Kika Markham) says she'll leave him if he continues his new assignment, so that their young son, who has been shuttled around in space all of his life, can experience a normal life on Earth. No one else, not even his deputies, wants to rock the boat to get to the reason there are so many suicides. By monitoring Sheppard's goons, the marshal discovers that the company is selling the workers an amphetamine-like synthetic narcotic that produces hyperactivity. This exponentially increases their productivity, each of them averaging the sum of doing fourteen hours' worth of work during a six-hour shift. This is great for their bonuses, but the drug carries a nasty side effect for some of them, bouts of severe psychosis after nearly a year of taking the drug. When the marshal decides this can't continue, the company will do anything to assure he's out of the way so their gravy train keeps rolling along. Peter Hyams directs from his screenplay.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=808Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:59:49 +0000Vince LeoSometime in the future, humans establish a mining operation on Io, a volcanic moon orbiting Jupiter, a week's distance from the nearest space station. The mining base is currently shattering records for productivity.  Sean Connery is William T. O'Niel...
The marshal's wife (Kika Markham) says she'll leave him if he continues his new assignment, so that their young son, who has been shuttled around in space all of his life, can experience a normal life on Earth. No one else, not even his deputies, wants to rock the boat to get to the reason there are so many suicides. By monitoring Sheppard's goons, the marshal discovers that the company is selling the workers an amphetamine-like synthetic narcotic that produces hyperactivity. This exponentially increases their productivity, each of them averaging the sum of doing fourteen hours' worth of work during a six-hour shift. This is great for their bonuses, but the drug carries a nasty side effect for some of them, bouts of severe psychosis after nearly a year of taking the drug. When the marshal decides this can't continue, the company will do anything to assure he's out of the way so their gravy train keeps rolling along. Peter Hyams directs from his screenplay.]]>1885falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/total-recall-1990-paul-verhoeven--41491068No sooner than the implanted thoughts enter his head, Doug finds himself in what he perceives to be a real-life espionage drama involving himself and his role in a Martian underground society of spies, all seeking to end the stranglehold of a megalomaniac corporate businessman named Cohaagen (Ronny Cox).  Fighting for his life, Doug makes his way to Mars to try to uncover the secret to who he really is, but not everything is what it seems to be, both on Mars and in his mind.
Paul Verhoeven directs.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=804Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:00:27 +0000Vince LeoSet on Earth of the future, where we've already mastered the ability for space travel to through the solar system, and even set up colonies on Mars, Total Recall surrounds a lowly construction worker named Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who...No sooner than the implanted thoughts enter his head, Doug finds himself in what he perceives to be a real-life espionage drama involving himself and his role in a Martian underground society of spies, all seeking to end the stranglehold of a megalomaniac corporate businessman named Cohaagen (Ronny Cox).  Fighting for his life, Doug makes his way to Mars to try to uncover the secret to who he really is, but not everything is what it seems to be, both on Mars and in his mind.
Paul Verhoeven directs.]]>2155falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/they-live-1988-john-carpenter--41379253https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=800Fri, 09 Oct 2020 10:00:08 +0000Vince LeoThis sci-fi actioner stars "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (yes, the ex-pro wrestler) as Nada, a drifter desperately in need of a decent job. He lands a temp job at a construction site, but strange doings in the church across the street cause him to investigate,...1855falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/v-the-final-battle-1984-richard-t-heffron--41258013https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=796Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:00:53 +0000Vince LeoIn this three-part TV miniseries sequel, the Resistance is fending off the pressing Visitors, who continue to fool the people of Earth by controlling the media, while depleting the planet of precious water and rounding up humans for food. The...1760falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/v-the-original-miniseries-1983-kenneth-johnson--41115717
Manufacturing ramps up while the Visitors take over media outlets, shaping public opinion for their cause against the world's scientists and any others who might figure out how to stop their domination, registering them to track their whereabouts, and imposing their influence upon the world. Revealed within the tale is that the Visitors are a race of carnivorous reptilians donning elaborate human disguises to suck the Earth completely dry of its water and to harvest humans for food. Kenneth Johnson writes, directs, and produces. Marc Singer, Faye Grant, and Jane Badler star.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=793Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:00:39 +0000Vince LeoThe people of Earth are visited and befriended by a human-like race from outer space inhabiting massive spacecraft, 50 of them measuring three miles in diameter, hovering over cities throughout the world. These newcomers speak Earth's languages...
Manufacturing ramps up while the Visitors take over media outlets, shaping public opinion for their cause against the world's scientists and any others who might figure out how to stop their domination, registering them to track their whereabouts, and imposing their influence upon the world. Revealed within the tale is that the Visitors are a race of carnivorous reptilians donning elaborate human disguises to suck the Earth completely dry of its water and to harvest humans for food. Kenneth Johnson writes, directs, and produces. Marc Singer, Faye Grant, and Jane Badler star.]]>1769falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alien-nation-1988-graham-baker--40971911https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=789Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:00:31 +0000Vince LeoSet in the near future of 1991, it's been three years since the landing of an actual flying saucer landed on Earth, containing a species of aliens (dubbed "Newcomers") who had been genetically engineered as slave laborers.  The Newcomers are smarter...1831falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stranded-1987-tex-fuller--40837203https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=785Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:00:26 +0000Vince LeoIn the story, five escaped alien refugees come to Earth like a bolt of lightning and find themselves in a remote North Carolina Victorian-style farmhouse inhabited by a newly-orphaned teenage girl Deirdre Clark (Ione Skye) and her grandmother Grace...1198falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-brother-from-another-planet-1984-john-sayles--40701338https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=782Fri, 04 Sep 2020 10:00:04 +0000Vince LeoA mute extraterrestrial resembling a black man (but with feet that have three toes) crash lands his spaceship near New York City. Not understanding where he is or what people are saying, he finds his way to Harlem's 125th Street. Although derided as...1882falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/starman-1984-john-carpenter--40537040https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=778Fri, 28 Aug 2020 10:00:50 +0000Vince LeoAn alien race intercepts Voyager II, a space probe describing Earth, effectively inviting aliens to visit. These aliens take Earth up on the offer, sending a scout pod to see what we're up to. American fighter jets greet it and the alien scout...1887falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/e-t-the-extraterrestrial-1982-steven-spielberg--40435357https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=774Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:00:55 +0000Vince LeoE.T.: The Extraterrestrial starts in a forest outside a California suburb. An alien spacecraft lands, and several extraterrestrials emerge, gathering flora samples.  Suspicious humans arrive, the aliens escape, leaving one behind.  He hides in a...1959falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977-steven-spielberg--40319886https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=770Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:00:30 +0000Vince LeoRichard Dreyfuss stars as Muncie, Indiana electricity lineman, Roy Neary, one of many people in the world to experience a close encounter with a UFO.  Others experiencing the phenomenon exhibit the same odd behavior — radiation burns and an obsession...2031falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-abyss-1989-james-cameron--40072141https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=762Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:00:13 +0000Vince LeoVirgil 'Bud' Brigman (Ed Harris) is the lead foreman of Deepcore, an underwater oil drilling rig 2,000-feet deep. Deepcore receives word of a downed US Navy nuclear submarine in the area near the Cayman Trough. As Russian subs are close by, foul play...2054falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/deepstar-six-1989-sean-s-cunningham--39934443
Erratum: Apologies to Harry Manfredini for calling him "Henry" in this episode.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=754Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:00:43 +0000Vince LeoThe plot of DeepStar Six involves a team of eleven scientists working for the US Navy is constructing a facility stationed six miles beneath the surface of the ocean for the launching of nuclear missiles. They discover they are building atop what...
Erratum: Apologies to Harry Manfredini for calling him "Henry" in this episode.]]>1606falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/leviathan-1989-george-p-cosmatos--39810657https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=748Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:00:17 +0000Vince LeoScientists on the last few days of their stint in a deep sea mining operation stumble upon a mysterious Russian ship, "Leviathan", which has sunk and perhaps was ambushed by their own navy.  They loot some cargo on board and inadvertently bring back...1773falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/humanoids-from-the-deep-monster-1980-barbara-peeters--38298124
The corporation has been experimenting with ways to escalate the growth of fish in the area. Ann Turkel is a scientist named Dr. Susan Drake who led the experiments, which involved tinkering with salmon DNA so they'd grow large and increase spawning activity. However, the experiment goes awry after prehistoric coelacanths begin to consume these genetically altered salmon. Their offspring evolves quickly into humanoid sea creatures that emerge out of the ocean, attacking landlubbers with an overwhelming desire to feed on mammals and procreate with human women.

Directed by Barbara Peeters for Roger Corman's New World Pictures.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=741Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:00:15 +0000Vince LeoIn a small coastal fishing village called Noyo in northern California, the residents are set to celebrate their annual salmon festival. The festival has been on the decline of late because the fish population has dwindled, leaving the town suffering ...
The corporation has been experimenting with ways to escalate the growth of fish in the area. Ann Turkel is a scientist named Dr. Susan Drake who led the experiments, which involved tinkering with salmon DNA so they'd grow large and increase spawning activity. However, the experiment goes awry after prehistoric coelacanths begin to consume these genetically altered salmon. Their offspring evolves quickly into humanoid sea creatures that emerge out of the ocean, attacking landlubbers with an overwhelming desire to feed on mammals and procreate with human women.

Directed by Barbara Peeters for Roger Corman's New World Pictures.]]>1869falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/piranha-ii-the-spawning-1981-james-cameron--35644091
That's where Anne (Tricia O'Neil), a marine biologist, works as a scuba instructor. Anne's separated husband Steve (Lance Henriksen) is a cop in the seaside town. Steve's a little jealous when Anne enters into a fling with a mysterious resort resident, Tyler Sherman (Steve Marachuk). When human bodies are found in a gruesome, half-eaten state, they suspect other summer frolickers are in danger.  Too bad Club Elysium won't shut down the highly attended festival.

James Cameron's directorial debut.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=735Fri, 03 Jul 2020 10:00:43 +0000Vince LeoThe story for Piranha II doesn't connect to Piranha save for a reference to fish used as bioweapons for a top-secret U.S. Army experiment.  Those experiments continued into cross-breeding piranhas with grunions and flying fish to make them dangerous...
That's where Anne (Tricia O'Neil), a marine biologist, works as a scuba instructor. Anne's separated husband Steve (Lance Henriksen) is a cop in the seaside town. Steve's a little jealous when Anne enters into a fling with a mysterious resort resident, Tyler Sherman (Steve Marachuk). When human bodies are found in a gruesome, half-eaten state, they suspect other summer frolickers are in danger.  Too bad Club Elysium won't shut down the highly attended festival.

James Cameron's directorial debut.]]>1790falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/piranha-1978-joe-dante--33623608https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=727Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:00:15 +0000Vince LeoBradford Dillman stars as Paul Grogan, a reclusive alcoholic living in a cabin out in the woods in an undisclosed part of the United States. He's visited by a skiptracer named Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies), who is out to find a couple of...1779falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jaws-the-revenge-1987-joseph-sargent--31858238https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=724Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:59:00 +0000Vince LeoThe Brody family, not led by the widow Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary), continues to experience shark attacks, starting with when Ellen's younger son, Sean. While mourning the loss, Ellen visits her other son, Michael (Lance Guest), in the Bahamas, where...1695falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jaws-3-d-1983-joe-alves--30406121https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=720Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:00:54 +0000Vince LeoJaws 3 sees the sons of Sheriff Brody now in Florida, as eldest son Mike (Dennis Quaid) has laid the foundations for a two-year project to bring an underwater structure in the lagoon at Sea World to life.  The younger brother, Sean (John Putch) is...1745falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jaws-2-1978-jeannot-szwarc--29561460https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=716Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:29:29 +0000Vince LeoJaws 2 is set four years after Jaws, in the same island community of Amity. Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) still patrols, though now shaken from his ordeal with the shark. Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) is catering to a land developer on the construction...1820falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jaws-1975-steven-spielberg--28623729
Steven Spielberg directs this shocker on the sea from the novel by Peter Benchley.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=713Fri, 29 May 2020 10:40:17 +0000Vince LeoRoy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody of Amity, a Long Island resort community just about to enjoy its most popular season of the year, in the sun and fun of the 4th of July.  All is not idyllic on this day, however.  A teenage girl has been...
Steven Spielberg directs this shocker on the sea from the novel by Peter Benchley.]]>1785falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/king-kong-lives-1986-john-guillermin--28045796
That miracle arrives when the soldier-of-fortune Hank Mitchell (Brian Kerwin) discovers another giant ape while scouting for diamonds in the jungles of Borneo. He finds a way to bring the female ape back to the United States for fortune and glory. The lab needs her plasma but the two apes sense the presence of each other, which makes it particularly dangerous for any humans trying to keep the apes from doing what apes want to do naturally.  The apes escape their confinement and run away as fugitives, but the scientists can't have these two roaming the Great Smoky Mountains wreaking havoc, so the military, led by the tenacious Colonel Nevitt (John Ashton), is called in to take whatever measures and necessary. It's up to Dr. Franklin and Hank Mitchell to lead them to safety somehow. John Guillermin directs.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=708Fri, 22 May 2020 11:10:21 +0000Vince LeoIn this sequel to the 1976 remake of Kong Kong, none of the original cast returns, except in archival footage shown in the intro depicting Kong after getting shot down from the top of the World Trade Center and falling to the streets below. We come to...
That miracle arrives when the soldier-of-fortune Hank Mitchell (Brian Kerwin) discovers another giant ape while scouting for diamonds in the jungles of Borneo. He finds a way to bring the female ape back to the United States for fortune and glory. The lab needs her plasma but the two apes sense the presence of each other, which makes it particularly dangerous for any humans trying to keep the apes from doing what apes want to do naturally.  The apes escape their confinement and run away as fugitives, but the scientists can't have these two roaming the Great Smoky Mountains wreaking havoc, so the military, led by the tenacious Colonel Nevitt (John Ashton), is called in to take whatever measures and necessary. It's up to Dr. Franklin and Hank Mitchell to lead them to safety somehow. John Guillermin directs.]]>1661falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/king-kong-1976-john-guillermin--27403561
What they find instead of useable oil is a gorilla six times the size of a normal ape, who is the god to which the native villagers sacrifice women, of which Dwan becomes the next in line. Kong takes a liking to Dwan but gets captured by the Petrox people who take him back to the United States to gain publicity. Problems arise when the ape escapes and begins destroying the city searching for Dwan. Charles Grodin Costars. John Guillerman directs this Dino De Laurentiis production fro a Lorenzo Semple Jr. Script.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=705Fri, 15 May 2020 10:35:28 +0000Vince LeoIn this remake of the 1933 classic of the same name, Petrox, a gasoline corporation, sends an expedition to an uncharted island near Micronesia obscured by perpetual fog to find out if there’s oil there. Stowing away is Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges), a...
What they find instead of useable oil is a gorilla six times the size of a normal ape, who is the god to which the native villagers sacrifice women, of which Dwan becomes the next in line. Kong takes a liking to Dwan but gets captured by the Petrox people who take him back to the United States to gain publicity. Problems arise when the ape escapes and begins destroying the city searching for Dwan. Charles Grodin Costars. John Guillerman directs this Dino De Laurentiis production fro a Lorenzo Semple Jr. Script.]]>2073falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tarzan-the-ape-man-1981-john-derek--26902034
Proceeding cautiously, Jane bathes in the ocean, attracting a ferocious lion, saved by the mysterious ape-man of myth. James determines Tarzan (Miles O'Keeffe) will be their next kill, especially after he kidnaps Jane, though she seems more than willing to get caught.

John Derek directs.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=701Fri, 08 May 2020 10:55:24 +0000Vince LeoSet in 1910, virginal Jane Parker (Bo Derek), a feminist who thinks women should be able to explore the world the same as men. She travels to Africa to find the father she never knew, renowned explorer James Parker (Richard Harris). James, who...
Proceeding cautiously, Jane bathes in the ocean, attracting a ferocious lion, saved by the mysterious ape-man of myth. James determines Tarzan (Miles O'Keeffe) will be their next kill, especially after he kidnaps Jane, though she seems more than willing to get caught.

John Derek directs.]]>1843falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/greystoke-the-legend-of-tarzan-lord-of-the-apes-1984-hugh-hudson--26490951
Meanwhile, an expedition arrives nearby for specimens for the British Musem. The expedition gets viciously attacked by a native village. Surviving the slaughter is a Belgian named Phillippe d'Arnot, whose life is saved and wounds tended by the mysterious ape-man. Phillippe realizes his savior is the son of the married couple, the Claytons, who built the abandoned cabin in the vicinity. Dubbing the jungle man "John Clayton', d'Arnot teaches him to speak, move, and behave like an aristocrat from civilized society before taking him to his ancestral estate in Scotland to reunite with his grandfather, the Earl of Greystoke. There, John develops feelings for grandfather's ward, an American-raised woman named Jane Parker.

Christopher Lambert, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, Andie MacDowell, James Fox star. Hugh Hudson directs.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=698Fri, 01 May 2020 10:53:20 +0000Vince LeoBased on elements within Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1912 novel, "Tarzan of the Apes," Greystoke begins in the late 19th century, where a young couple born into Scottish nobility, Jack Clayton and his pregnant wife Alice, find themselves shipwrecked off...
Meanwhile, an expedition arrives nearby for specimens for the British Musem. The expedition gets viciously attacked by a native village. Surviving the slaughter is a Belgian named Phillippe d'Arnot, whose life is saved and wounds tended by the mysterious ape-man. Phillippe realizes his savior is the son of the married couple, the Claytons, who built the abandoned cabin in the vicinity. Dubbing the jungle man "John Clayton', d'Arnot teaches him to speak, move, and behave like an aristocrat from civilized society before taking him to his ancestral estate in Scotland to reunite with his grandfather, the Earl of Greystoke. There, John develops feelings for grandfather's ward, an American-raised woman named Jane Parker.

Christopher Lambert, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, Andie MacDowell, James Fox star. Hugh Hudson directs.]]>1669falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-beastmaster-1982-don-coscarelli--26004880
Dar's village is decimated by the evil forces known as the Jun, in cahoots with Maax.  Out for revenge, Dar enlists some newfound animal friends in the form of a panther, an eagle, and two ferret thieves, to bring down Maax before he slaughters any more innocents.  Also joining Dar is slave girl Kiri (Tanya Roberts), a valiant warrior named Seth (John Amos), and the son of the imprisoned king, Tal (Josh Milrad).

Directed and co-written by Don Coscarelli.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=694Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:29:02 +0000Vince LeoThe Beastmaster follows the hero, Dar (Marc Singer), the son of a king snatched away from his mother's womb by a witch under the employ of the evil magician named Maax (Rip Torn). Maax had been prophesied to be killed by the son of a king (to which he...
Dar's village is decimated by the evil forces known as the Jun, in cahoots with Maax.  Out for revenge, Dar enlists some newfound animal friends in the form of a panther, an eagle, and two ferret thieves, to bring down Maax before he slaughters any more innocents.  Also joining Dar is slave girl Kiri (Tanya Roberts), a valiant warrior named Seth (John Amos), and the son of the imprisoned king, Tal (Josh Milrad).

Directed and co-written by Don Coscarelli.]]>1582falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sheena-1984-john-guillermin--25643145
Trouble brews in her territory when Prince Otwani (Trevor Thomas), an ex-football placekicker, joins in a plot to assassinate his brother, King Jabalani (Clifton Jones) so that he can gain untold riches from the fertile Zambouli lands he's been protecting.  Shaman, one of the Zambouli leaders, is framed for the killing. Still, a visiting American sports news crew, led by charismatic sports reporter Vic Casey (Ted Wass), captures the events as they happen, showing that a significant coup was in play.  Otwani, wanting the incriminating tape back at any cost, sets about capturing Vic before he can escape, but with the help of Sheena and her animal friends, Casey means to get out of the country to set the record straight.

John Guillermin directs.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=691Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:24:22 +0000Vince LeoThe story of Sheena involves a young girl orphaned after her geologist parents are killed in a cave-in while exploring the source of mystical healing soil found near the jungle in the fictional African country of Tigora.  The native Zambouli villagers...
Trouble brews in her territory when Prince Otwani (Trevor Thomas), an ex-football placekicker, joins in a plot to assassinate his brother, King Jabalani (Clifton Jones) so that he can gain untold riches from the fertile Zambouli lands he's been protecting.  Shaman, one of the Zambouli leaders, is framed for the killing. Still, a visiting American sports news crew, led by charismatic sports reporter Vic Casey (Ted Wass), captures the events as they happen, showing that a significant coup was in play.  Otwani, wanting the incriminating tape back at any cost, sets about capturing Vic before he can escape, but with the help of Sheena and her animal friends, Casey means to get out of the country to set the record straight.

John Guillermin directs.]]>1549falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/red-sonja-1985-richard-fleischer--25226340
Gedren seeks a powerful talisman, which grows stronger the more exposure it has to light, enough to destroy the world if left unchecked within a couple of weeks. Gedren has the all-female guards (only women can touch it) at the temple protecting the talisman massacred and takes it for herself.

After a forest spirit grants her great abilities to wield a sword, Sonja vows revenge, soon going off to the Orient to train with the masters on sword fighting, who end up giving her a powerful sword. On her quest, she meets a mysterious stranger named Lord Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a protector of the Order of the Talisman, who tells Sonja about her dying sister, who took an arrow to the back from one of the Queen's soldiers. In her sister's final words, Sonja gets a mission to stop Gedren's quest to use the talisman to destroy the world, and she has fourteen days to do it.

Richard Fleischer directs this Dino De Laurentiis production.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=687Fri, 10 Apr 2020 10:33:48 +0000Vince LeoAn unofficial spinoff of sorts to the Conan franchise, Red Sonja starts off with Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen) as an attractive farm girl that evil lesbian Queen Gedren of Berkubane (Sandahl Bergman) finds fetching enough to invite over.  Sonja finds the...
Gedren seeks a powerful talisman, which grows stronger the more exposure it has to light, enough to destroy the world if left unchecked within a couple of weeks. Gedren has the all-female guards (only women can touch it) at the temple protecting the talisman massacred and takes it for herself.

After a forest spirit grants her great abilities to wield a sword, Sonja vows revenge, soon going off to the Orient to train with the masters on sword fighting, who end up giving her a powerful sword. On her quest, she meets a mysterious stranger named Lord Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a protector of the Order of the Talisman, who tells Sonja about her dying sister, who took an arrow to the back from one of the Queen's soldiers. In her sister's final words, Sonja gets a mission to stop Gedren's quest to use the talisman to destroy the world, and she has fourteen days to do it.

Richard Fleischer directs this Dino De Laurentiis production.]]>1765falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/conan-the-destroyer-1984-richard-fleischer--24775766https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=684Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:06:41 +0000Vince LeoPower-hungry Queen Tamaris of Shadizar (Sarah Douglas), who offers Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) a bargain. Taramis will resurrect his dead lover Valeria upon completion of a special mission. He is to assist with the protection of her niece, a young...1816falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/conan-the-barbarian-1982-john-milius--24423070https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=680Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:06:32 +0000Vince LeoThe setting of this fantasy-adventure based on Robert E. Howard's literary creations is the Hyborian Age, a fictional period invented by Howard, around 10,000 B.C. It is a time of magic, madmen, and mercenaries, and barbarians who kill before they end...1732falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fire-and-ice-1983-ralph-bakshi--24091815
Our main hero is vengeful Larn, the survivor of North Village from one of Nekron's glacier attacks that takes out his people. Jarol's beloved teenage daughter Princess Teegra gets kidnapped from Nekron's subhuman minions. Teegra manages to escape and runs into Larn, and the two form an instant romantic bond. As King Jarol sends his son Taro and his men to seek a peaceful solution, Larn makes his way to Nekron's abode, joining forces with a mysterious warrior named Darkwolf, who also is traveling to the Ice City to thwart the Ice Lord's wrath.

Ralph Bakshi directs. Frank Frazetta co-produces.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=677Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:21:49 +0000Vince LeoThis animated story involves a fantasy world imagined before the last ice age, featuring human civilizations and exotic dinosaurs coexisting. It is a time where the lands are divided among two factions, the evil Ice Peak sorcerer warlords, Queen...
Our main hero is vengeful Larn, the survivor of North Village from one of Nekron's glacier attacks that takes out his people. Jarol's beloved teenage daughter Princess Teegra gets kidnapped from Nekron's subhuman minions. Teegra manages to escape and runs into Larn, and the two form an instant romantic bond. As King Jarol sends his son Taro and his men to seek a peaceful solution, Larn makes his way to Nekron's abode, joining forces with a mysterious warrior named Darkwolf, who also is traveling to the Ice City to thwart the Ice Lord's wrath.

Ralph Bakshi directs. Frank Frazetta co-produces.]]>1050falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/return-to-oz-1985-walter-murch--23814079
During the treatment, a mysterious girl watching over Dorothy intervenes during a lightning strike that halts the experiment. Dorothy escapes down a nearby river, washing ashore in the land of Oz again. Except the Yellow Brock Road is demolished. The Emerald City is in ruins and its inhabitants, including all of her old friends, have been turned to stone by the mad Nome King. Except for the Scarecrow, who ran Emerald City in her absence, who has been imprisoned. Along with her hen Billina, a broomstick figure with a pumpkin for a head named, obviously, Jack Pumpkinhead, a robotic soldier named Tik Tok, and a flying beast of burden named The Gump, it's up to Dorothy to stop the mad Nome King and the evil Princess Mombi from destroying the Oz that once was for good.

Fairuza Balk stars as Dorothy in her debut feature film. Walter Murch directs and co-writes this nightmarish cult adventure.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=673Fri, 13 Mar 2020 02:36:44 +0000Vince LeoNine months after her Oz experience, Dorothy wants to return to check in with her friends. Aunt Em thinks Dorothy is mentally ill. She seeks treatment from an experimental clinic using electroshock therapy to treat maladies of the mind. Dorothy is...
During the treatment, a mysterious girl watching over Dorothy intervenes during a lightning strike that halts the experiment. Dorothy escapes down a nearby river, washing ashore in the land of Oz again. Except the Yellow Brock Road is demolished. The Emerald City is in ruins and its inhabitants, including all of her old friends, have been turned to stone by the mad Nome King. Except for the Scarecrow, who ran Emerald City in her absence, who has been imprisoned. Along with her hen Billina, a broomstick figure with a pumpkin for a head named, obviously, Jack Pumpkinhead, a robotic soldier named Tik Tok, and a flying beast of burden named The Gump, it's up to Dorothy to stop the mad Nome King and the evil Princess Mombi from destroying the Oz that once was for good.

Fairuza Balk stars as Dorothy in her debut feature film. Walter Murch directs and co-writes this nightmarish cult adventure.]]>1695falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/willow-1988-ron-howard--23552549
Along the way, they encounter and recruit that first Daikini, Madmartigan (Val Kilmer), a skilled but down-on-his-luck mercenary, who agrees to take the baby for release from capture.  THe Daikinis are in the midst of a war with the legions on Bavmorda's side, putting Elora's fate in jeopardy should they fall short. However, Willow gets another directive from a fairy to find the good witch on a remote island. With Madmartigan and a couple of Brownies, who are from a human-like race even smaller than the Nerwyns, only nine inches in height, Willow seeks to find a way to protect the baby. Ron Howard directs this story by producer George Lucas.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=670Fri, 06 Mar 2020 12:10:19 +0000Vince LeoThe story involves Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a farmer who dreams of becoming a sorcerer's apprentice among the Nerwyns, which are a race of little people. One day, he encounters a baby who has washed onto the riverbank near his farm. The baby,...
Along the way, they encounter and recruit that first Daikini, Madmartigan (Val Kilmer), a skilled but down-on-his-luck mercenary, who agrees to take the baby for release from capture.  THe Daikinis are in the midst of a war with the legions on Bavmorda's side, putting Elora's fate in jeopardy should they fall short. However, Willow gets another directive from a fairy to find the good witch on a remote island. With Madmartigan and a couple of Brownies, who are from a human-like race even smaller than the Nerwyns, only nine inches in height, Willow seeks to find a way to protect the baby. Ron Howard directs this story by producer George Lucas.]]>1478falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ewoks-the-battle-for-endor-1985-ken-jim-wheat--23285028
While roving the forest, Cindel and Wicket encounter a mysterious creature named Teek who leads them to the home of a grumpy hermit named Noa Briqualon, who we come to find has also crashlanded there. Noa wards them off, but his icy exterior melts to friendship, leading to Teek and Noa helping them on their quest to free the imprisoned Ewoks from the marauders' castle. King Terak is confident that the powerful crystal that is an energy cell used by the Towani family star cruiser has magical powers. The power, Terak feels, will get them off of Endor and that Cindel must be some sorceress who can tap into those powers.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=666Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:07:21 +0000Vince LeoThe moon of Endor gets attacked by a vicious band of thuggish Sanyassan marauders, whose ancestors also crashlanded on Endor some time ago, and a powerful shape-shifting sorceress named Charal under the leadership of King Terak.  They attack the Ewok...
While roving the forest, Cindel and Wicket encounter a mysterious creature named Teek who leads them to the home of a grumpy hermit named Noa Briqualon, who we come to find has also crashlanded there. Noa wards them off, but his icy exterior melts to friendship, leading to Teek and Noa helping them on their quest to free the imprisoned Ewoks from the marauders' castle. King Terak is confident that the powerful crystal that is an energy cell used by the Towani family star cruiser has magical powers. The power, Terak feels, will get them off of Endor and that Cindel must be some sorceress who can tap into those powers.]]>1427falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ewok-adventure-caravan-of-courage-1984--23046843https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=663Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:42:21 +0000Vince LeoGeorge Lucas's story for this made-for-TV spin-off from the Star Wars films involves a spacecraft that crash lands on Endor. The mother and father spend the film looking for their two children, a fourteen-year-old named Mace Towani and his...1047falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-star-wars-holiday-special-1978-steve-binder-with-david-acomba--22767488
Chewbacca's family living in a giant treehouse on Kashyyyk. The family trio includes Chewbacca's wife Malla, his father Itchy, and his son, Lumpy. Chewbacca is returning to see his kin for a celebration of the holiday called Life Day. However, Chewie is delayed by an Imperial Cruiser in the vicinity performing a blockade that keeps the Millennium Falcon from its destination, and down on the Wookiee planet, Stormtroopers are invading homes and placing the locals under a strict curfew. All Chewie's family can do is use their technology to entertain themselves with cartoons, acrobats, sultry women of fantasy, and Jefferson Starship while they wait.

Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Bea Arthur, Art Carney, Harvey Korman, Diahann Carroll, and the voice of James Earl Jones all make an appearance.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=658Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:01:56 +0000Vince LeoThe Star Wars Holiday Special is a two-hour made-for-TV musical variety show movie that aired on November 17. 1978 on CBS for its November sweeps period.). Variety shows were hot on TV in the 1970s and this effort would serve as a ratings bonanza,...
Chewbacca's family living in a giant treehouse on Kashyyyk. The family trio includes Chewbacca's wife Malla, his father Itchy, and his son, Lumpy. Chewbacca is returning to see his kin for a celebration of the holiday called Life Day. However, Chewie is delayed by an Imperial Cruiser in the vicinity performing a blockade that keeps the Millennium Falcon from its destination, and down on the Wookiee planet, Stormtroopers are invading homes and placing the locals under a strict curfew. All Chewie's family can do is use their technology to entertain themselves with cartoons, acrobats, sultry women of fantasy, and Jefferson Starship while they wait.

Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Bea Arthur, Art Carney, Harvey Korman, Diahann Carroll, and the voice of James Earl Jones all make an appearance.]]>1591falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/star-trek-vi-the-undiscovered-country-1991-nicholas-meyer--22514210It's hard for Kirk and co. to trust the Klingons after so many years of fighting them, so when a pair of photon torpedoes are shot into the Klingon ship and two men in Federation gear assassinate many onboard, all fingers point to the only logical culprits, the Enterprise crew.  Kirk and McCoy (who tried in vain to save Gorkon) are put on trial for the disaster, leaving the remaining crew with little time to coordinate an effort to clear their names and secure their release before whatever faction responsible commits more assassinations in response to the peace process.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=654Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:44:02 +0000Vince LeoThe final of the Star Trek films to feature the entire original cast, Star Trek VI draws many parallels to the end of the Cold War between the United States (represented here by the Federation) and the Soviet Union (the big bad Klingons).  An...It's hard for Kirk and co. to trust the Klingons after so many years of fighting them, so when a pair of photon torpedoes are shot into the Klingon ship and two men in Federation gear assassinate many onboard, all fingers point to the only logical culprits, the Enterprise crew.  Kirk and McCoy (who tried in vain to save Gorkon) are put on trial for the disaster, leaving the remaining crew with little time to coordinate an effort to clear their names and secure their release before whatever faction responsible commits more assassinations in response to the peace process.]]>1597falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/star-trek-v-the-final-frontier-1989-william-shatner--22267353
William Shatner makes his feature-film debut as a director of this maligned entry in the Star Trek movie series.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=650Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:28:51 +0000Vince LeoStar Trek V starts off with the crew taking over the reins of new Enterprise starship, and their first impromptu mission requires them to travel to the near desolate planet of Nimbus III, where a rogue Vulcan known as Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) has...
William Shatner makes his feature-film debut as a director of this maligned entry in the Star Trek movie series.]]>1802falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home-1986--22020015https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=646Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:37:34 +0000Vince LeoStar Trek IV starts with our heroes on planet Vulcan, loading up to go home and face punishment from the Federation for their hijacking of the Enterprise and its subsequent destruction, as well as the sabotage of the Excelsior.  As they approach...1595falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/star-trek-iii-the-search-for-spock-1984-leonard-nimoy--21780325https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=642Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:45:27 +0000Vince LeoStar Trek III starts off with the weary Enterprise crew returning home after their near-death battle with Khan, and the actual death of Spock, whose body had been torpedoed to the Genesis world, which was a newly transformed planet, formerly without...1596falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-1982-nicholas-meyer--21547179https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=639Fri, 10 Jan 2020 15:33:12 +0000Vince LeoWith Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the series took a swing in the exact opposite direction from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, putting things on a raw emotional level. This is a sequel, not of the first film, but of an original "Star Trek" episode,...1763falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/star-trek-the-motion-picture-1979-robert-wise--21310334https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=635Fri, 03 Jan 2020 12:13:57 +0000Vince LeoFast approaching Earth is a cloudlike alien entity that has destroys all that approaches its nebulous form.  The not-quite-fully-refitted Enterprise is the closest vessel available in its approach toward Earth. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) pushes...2086falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dragnet-1987-tom-mankiewicz--21113380
Their first case together sees them trying to crack a slew of recent murders in Los Angeles, ostensibly done by a mysterious cult known simply as P.A.G.A.N., (People Against Goodness and Normalcy) as the calling cars they leave behind at the scenes of their crimes suggest.  Signs begin to point in the direction of a smarmy TV evangelist named Rev. Jonathan Whirley (Christopher Plummer) and a smarmy smut merchant named Jerry Caesar (Dabney Coleman).  Friday and Streebeck rescue a sacrificial virgin, Connie Swail (Alexandra Paul), at one of the P.A.G.A.N. gatherings, and for the first time in his life, Sgt. Friday has found someone wholesome enough to consider as his girlfriend, though he has now become too involved to think clearly -- or play things by the book when the heart is involved.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=632Fri, 27 Dec 2019 14:40:25 +0000Vince LeoIn this semi-spoof sequel to the classic TV show, "Dragnet", Dan Aykroyd isn't playing Jack Webb's character, Joe Friday, in this film, but rather, his nephew, with the same name and personality.  He's assigned a roguish new partner named Pep...
Their first case together sees them trying to crack a slew of recent murders in Los Angeles, ostensibly done by a mysterious cult known simply as P.A.G.A.N., (People Against Goodness and Normalcy) as the calling cars they leave behind at the scenes of their crimes suggest.  Signs begin to point in the direction of a smarmy TV evangelist named Rev. Jonathan Whirley (Christopher Plummer) and a smarmy smut merchant named Jerry Caesar (Dabney Coleman).  Friday and Streebeck rescue a sacrificial virgin, Connie Swail (Alexandra Paul), at one of the P.A.G.A.N. gatherings, and for the first time in his life, Sgt. Friday has found someone wholesome enough to consider as his girlfriend, though he has now become too involved to think clearly -- or play things by the book when the heart is involved.]]>1554falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/get-smart-again-1989-gary-nelson--20919521https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=628Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:37:21 +0000Vince LeoIn this "Get Smart" sequel movie made for network television, KAOS makes a comeback in a world that hasn't been terrorized by them since CONTROL took them down and put themselves out of the international terror business.  Recurring "Get Smart" actor...1102falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nude-bomb-the-return-of-maxwell-smart-1980-clive-donner--20714667
Andrea Howard, Dana Elcar, Vittorio Gassman, Norman Lloyd, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda Fleming, Pamela Hensley, Bill Dana also appear in this film directed by Clive Donner.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=616Fri, 13 Dec 2019 13:03:40 +0000Vince LeoMaxwell Smart (Don Adams), the dimwitted super-spy from the hit TV series from the 1960s, "Get Smart" returned in 1980 for a brand new, racier adventure.  Entitled The Nude Bomb, it has lost that title over the years in favor of the more...
Andrea Howard, Dana Elcar, Vittorio Gassman, Norman Lloyd, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda Fleming, Pamela Hensley, Bill Dana also appear in this film directed by Clive Donner.]]>1546falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-naked-gun-from-the-files-of-police-squad-1988-david-zucker--20526713
 ]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=613Fri, 06 Dec 2019 11:10:30 +0000Vince LeoThe comedy writing team of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker brought this first of a trilogy, based on their short-lived 1982 TV show "Police Squad", of zany screwball comedies to Hollywood in 1988, offering plenty of sight gags, plays on...
 ]]>1371falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/curse-of-the-pink-panther-1983-blake-edwards--20364490https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=609Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:36:12 +0000Vince LeoTed Wass stars as New York City police sergeant Clifton Sleigh, who ends up getting selected by an Interpol computer that is choosing the second-best sleuth in the world to use to find the missing best sleuth, Inspector Clouseau. Except Sleigh isn't...1421falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trail-of-the-pink-panther-1982-blake-edwards--20189243https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=604Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:00:29 +0000Vince LeoTrail of the Pink Panther is a film done nearly two years after the death of Pink Panther franchise star Peter Sellers, compiling the best clips and unused outtakes from prior films, along with new material to hang together a plot around the. That...1460falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/who-s-harry-crumb-paul-flaherty--20046954https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=600Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:21:36 +0000Vince LeoJohn Candy plays Harry Crumb, the bumbling son who never quite lived up to the reputation of his sleuthing father and grandfather in his family's long-standing detective agency. Instead of running the company, he's been relegated to being a lowly...804falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fletch-lives-1989-michael-ritchie--19935206https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=597Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:18:47 +0000Vince LeoFletch (Chevy Chase) quits his job as an investigative reporter when he learns he has inherited his aunt's expansive plantation estate in Louisiana called Belle Isle.  Unfortunately, he arrives to find that the property is completely run down through...1576falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fletch-1985-michael-ritchie--19917005https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=593Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:32:57 +0000Vince LeoChevy Chase plays a Los Angeles Times investigative reporter named Irwin M. Fletcher (he prefers to be called by his nickname, “Fletch”) under the pseudonym of Jane Doe. While working undercover trying to uncover the secret to a major beachside drug...1296falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/outrageous-fortune-1987--19917037https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=590Sat, 26 Oct 2019 23:19:18 +0000Vince LeoShelley Long plays prissy longtime acting student Lauren Ames who has never gotten an actual gig, finally finding some hope when she makes her way into a prestigious drama class led by an all-time great international acting coach. Bette Midler...1013falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/real-men-1987-dennis-feldman--19917040https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=586Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:42:41 +0000Vince LeoJames Belushi stars as Nick Pirandello, a crude smart-ass that just so happens to be one of the country's top CIA agents, who is ordered to recruit a mild-mannered suburban insurance salesman father, Bob Wilson (John Ritter), a lookalike for a...607falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spies-like-us-1985-john-landis--19917042https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=582Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:15:59 +0000Vince LeoThe plot of Spies Like Us involves the two most inept, low-level U.S. intelligence agents they could find to go on a mission as expendable decoys for the real agents. Emmett Fitz-Hume (Chevy Chase) and Austin Millbarge (Dan Aykroyd) were scouted by...1026falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rambo-iii-1988-peter-macdonald--19917006https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=579Sat, 05 Oct 2019 14:38:23 +0000Vince LeoThis time it's a bit more personal for John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), as his former Vietnam commander and friend, Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna), has been captured by Russian forces as he tries to rally the Afghan rebels who have been winning the...1046falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rambo-first-blood-part-2-1985-george-p-cosmatos--19917044https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=575Sat, 28 Sep 2019 22:40:37 +0000Vince LeoThe story follows First Blood, where John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is in prison for his one-man army heroics against law enforcement in the first film.  Here, Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna) approaches Rambo to undergo a covert operation that will...1425falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/first-blood-1982-ted-kotcheff--19917039https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=572Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:33:04 +0000Vince LeoSylvester Stallon stars as John Rambo, who has spent years trying to track down the only family he ever really knew -- the soldiers who fought alongside him in the war.  To Rambo's dismay, he finds he is all alone, as all of the rest were killed in...1578falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-delta-force-1986--19917045https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=568Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:49:56 +0000Vince LeoCannon Films and Golan-Globus productions push out this ultra-patriotic film in the middle of the 1980s whereby American elite commandos kick major butt when trying to secure the freedom of a plane full of hostages hijacked by a group of Lebanese...1334falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/commando-1985-mark-l-lester--19917049https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=565Sun, 08 Sep 2019 20:04:30 +0000Vince LeoIn this onscreen persona-defining movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Col. John Matrix, a highly-trained military special-ops expert whose unit was disbanded and now live under secret identities in retirement.  Matrix spends his days as a single...1610falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/predator-1987-john-mctiernan--18962722https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=561Fri, 30 Aug 2019 23:59:22 +0000Vince LeoArnold Schwarzenegger stars as Major "Dutch" Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert hostage rescue mission.  However, he soon finds out there's more to...1500falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/aliens-1986-james-cameron--18905360https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=558Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:11:44 +0000Vince LeoAliens starts where the first one leaves off, with Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in hypersleep drifting in the escape shuttle. What Ripley doesn't know until after she is rescued is that she has been that way for 57 years.  When she gets back, the company...1639falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alien-1979-ridley-scott--18851445https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=554Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:05:35 +0000Vince LeoThe story begins in the year 2122, onboard the commercial towing vessel, the Nostromo. Its mostly blue-collar crew, five men and two women, are awakened prematurely while still in deep space from their cryogenic slumber en route back to Earth.  The...1575falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lifeforce-1985-tobe-hooper--18786122https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=549Sat, 10 Aug 2019 20:12:17 +0000Vince LeoIn Cannon Films' Lifeforce, we find a space shuttle mission co-funded by American and British space agencies traveling to explore Halley's Comet up close. They soon make a discovery of an alien ship hiding in the comet's coma, so they go on board to...1244falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fright-night-part-2-1989-tommy-lee-wallace--18714082https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=546Sat, 03 Aug 2019 10:46:07 +0000Vince LeoFright Night Part 2 is a follow-up to the 1985 cult hit, Fright Night (naturally), where we find the same protagonist, Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale), as a college student no longer believing in the existence of vampires after three years of...1001falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fright-night-1985-tom-holland--18661695Trouble brews when his tenaciousness draws the ire of Jerry, the vampire himself, who threatens that he's going to take down Charley and everyone he loves before Charley can take him down first.  Knowing he needs help, Charley turns to the only man he knows known to kill vampires, Peter Vincent himself, though he's no killer -- he just plays one on TV.  When Jerry has his sights set on Charley's girlfriend Amy (Amanda Bearse), the war is on between the men for love and continued life.
Tom Holland writes and directs this beloved 80s horror-comedy.]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=540Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:16:45 +0000Vince LeoCharley Brewster (William Ragsdale) is a typical suburban teenager with a special interest in old-time horror b-movies, the kind seen on the local creep-fest TV showcase, "Fright Night", hosted by the self-proclaimed king of vampire hunting films,...Trouble brews when his tenaciousness draws the ire of Jerry, the vampire himself, who threatens that he's going to take down Charley and everyone he loves before Charley can take him down first.  Knowing he needs help, Charley turns to the only man he knows known to kill vampires, Peter Vincent himself, though he's no killer -- he just plays one on TV.  When Jerry has his sights set on Charley's girlfriend Amy (Amanda Bearse), the war is on between the men for love and continued life.
Tom Holland writes and directs this beloved 80s horror-comedy.]]>767falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lost-boys-1987-joel-schumacher--18601450https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=536Sun, 21 Jul 2019 01:57:46 +0000Vince LeoLucy Emerson (Dianne Wiest) is a divorced mother of two teenage sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Coey Haim), who relocates to the strange oceanside California town of Santa Carla, which is filled with a mix of punk and hippie cultures.  The...1002falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/near-dark-1987-kathryn-bigelow--18546612https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=533Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:18:23 +0000Vince LeoAdrian Pasdar stars as Caleb Colton, a young and somewhat passive small-town guy in Oklahoma who has his eye set on a visiting mysterious boyish beauty named Mae (Jenny Wright).  Caleb and Mae spend the night talking and flirting, but Mae has to make...1068falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hitcher-1986-robert-harmon--18482056https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=529Sun, 07 Jul 2019 13:31:47 +0000Vince LeoC. Thomas Howell stars as Jim Halsey, a young Chicago native driving a car cross-country to California. The Texas road he's currently on is lonely and Jim is tired, but he spies a way he might stay awake in the form of hitchhiker John Ryder (Rutger...1287falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/road-games-1981-richard-franklin--18423196https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=526Sun, 30 Jun 2019 12:17:08 +0000Vince LeoRoad Games (aka Roadgames) is a Hitchcockian suspense-thriller set primarily out on the open roads running through the Australian outback. Jamie Lee Curtis is Pamela, who, along with independent truck driver Pat Quid (Stacy Keach) and his pet dingo...1027falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mad-max-beyond-thunderdome-1985-george-miller-george-ogilvie--18348465https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=522Sat, 22 Jun 2019 21:57:36 +0000Vince LeoIn this entry of the Mad Max series, set a few years after the events of The Road Warrior, Max's nomadic travels lead him to Bartertown, which, as the name implies, is the methane-fueled hub where anyone can go to exchange something they have for...696falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mad-max-2-the-road-warrior-1981-george-miller--18290417https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=519Sun, 16 Jun 2019 22:37:05 +0000Vince LeoMax's wanderings through the now lawless Wasteland formerly known as Australia take him to a fortified oil refinery where there's plenty of precious fuel, but a vicious gang of murdering marauders, led by a hockey-masked and muscle-bound leader named...863falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mad-max-1979-george-miller--18216482https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=515Sun, 09 Jun 2019 01:58:20 +0000Vince LeoSet in the near future, Mel Gibson stars as the titular Max, one of the best police officers working for the MFP fighting against the increasingly hostile lands, full of marauding car and biker gangs who have no regard for life, or for laws, and...657falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/escape-from-new-york-1981-john-carpenter--18150316https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=511Sun, 02 Jun 2019 13:33:53 +0000Vince LeoEscape from New York is set in a future 1997, during a time when, after the crime rate has skyrocketed out of control, the island of Manhattan has been turned into an ultra-maximum security prison where the worst of the worst violent criminals are put...894falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/akira-1988-katsuhiro-otomo--18081033https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=508Sun, 26 May 2019 18:25:21 +0000Vince LeoIn this breakthrough anime masterwork, Akira starts out in 1988, much of Tokyo is destroyed by a mysterious that spreads like a dome of energy over the city. The rest of the film is set in the year 2019, as we peek into the post-apocalyptic...1106falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blade-runner-1982-ridley-scott--18006778https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=504Sat, 18 May 2019 04:12:50 +0000Vince LeoThe date is November 2019. The city is Los Angeles. Earth has undergone massive population explosions in the urban areas, the city landscape is a mish-mash of every culture, and almost everywhere you go there are advertisements. The most prominent of...1657falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trancers-1984-1985-charles-band--17886011
There and then, Whistler hopes to terminate the ancestors of the three-person "High Council of the Western Territories" members who took him down in 2247. Jack Deth always gets his man, so he too goes back in time to stop Whistler once and for all, inhabiting his consciousness into one of his own ancestors, a sleazeball journalist named Philip Dethton, who happens to be a dead ringer. Along with Phil's young girlfriend Leena (Helen Hunt), Deth is going to be crafty to take down his target, as Whistler is inhabiting the body of his own ancestor, who happens to be an LAPD detective, and has already channeled a number of "trancers" to his cause to protect him as he tries to take down the last Council member's ancestor, a down-and-out, alcoholic ex-pro baseball pitcher currently living on Skid Row (Biff Manard).]]>https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=500Fri, 10 May 2019 02:20:21 +0000Vince LeoTrancers starts off in the neon-tinged year of 2247, where we find much of old Los Angeles (now called "Angel City") submerged by the ocean. Law enforcement officers called "Troopers", like Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson), are taking down (referred to as...
There and then, Whistler hopes to terminate the ancestors of the three-person "High Council of the Western Territories" members who took him down in 2247. Jack Deth always gets his man, so he too goes back in time to stop Whistler once and for all, inhabiting his consciousness into one of his own ancestors, a sleazeball journalist named Philip Dethton, who happens to be a dead ringer. Along with Phil's young girlfriend Leena (Helen Hunt), Deth is going to be crafty to take down his target, as Whistler is inhabiting the body of his own ancestor, who happens to be an LAPD detective, and has already channeled a number of "trancers" to his cause to protect him as he tries to take down the last Council member's ancestor, a down-and-out, alcoholic ex-pro baseball pitcher currently living on Skid Row (Biff Manard).]]>778falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/terminator-2-judgment-day-1991-james-cameron--17831412https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=497Sat, 04 May 2019 03:21:50 +0000Vince LeoLinda Hamilton returns as buffed out Sarah Connor, the mother of humanity's future savior, now holed up in a mental institution for her claims that the world is going to end in an apocalyptic nuclear war instigated by a sentient advanced computer...1316falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-terminator-1984-james-cameron--17758698https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=493Sat, 27 Apr 2019 01:12:15 +0000Vince LeoThe simple premise: A killer android (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back to 1984 to assassinate the mother (Linda Hamilton) of a resistance leader of the future. A soldier of that resistance (Michael Biehn) is also sent back to protect her...995falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hands-of-steel-1986-sergio-martino--17682649https://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=489Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:27:26 +0000Vince LeoHands of Steel is an Italian-produced film obviously influenced by James Cameron’s The Terminator if combined with the basic plot of First Blood. Set in the near future, we find a beefy thug (Daniel Greene) has been brainwashed by the evil head of a...607falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cyborg-1989-jean-claude-van-damme--17609065http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=366Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:50:34 +0000Vince LeoIn the future, New York, after the dreaded nuclear holocaust, is a wasteland of lawlessness and gangland thuggery. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a skilled martial arts warrior named Gibson Rickenbacker, a "slinger"(aka, a mercenary for hire helping...847falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/robocop-1987--17545007http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=360Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:41:50 +0000Vince LeoRoboCop is set in near-future Detroit, where the city streets are just about completely dominated by the criminal element, while the police are neither respected nor welcome; they are virtually walking targets out there.  Desperate to clean up the...1254falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/overboard-1987--17469707http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=345Fri, 29 Mar 2019 03:16:55 +0000Vince LeoGoldie Hawn plays the ultra-disdainful Joanna Slayton, who hires a carpenter, Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell), while stopping off for repairs in their luxury yacht off the coast of the small town of Elk Cove, Oregon, with her snobby hubby Grant (Edward...655falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lose-yourself-find-yourself-american-dreamer-1984--17405893http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=341Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:27:03 +0000Vince LeoJoBeth Williams stars as suburban Ohio housewife and mother Cathy Palmer, who escapes her joyless marriage in her spare time by reading her favorite romantic thriller novels, all starring a Modesty Blaise-like globe-hopping female private detective,...591falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/76-lose-yourself-find-yourself-desperately-seeking-susan-1985--17319198http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=337Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:57:09 +0000Vince LeoRosanna Arquette stars as Roberta Glass, a dreamer New Jersey housewife who contents herself to reading about the mysterious lives of others through perusing the personals in the local paper.  One in particular has caught her eye, involving "Jim and...1016falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/she-devil-1989--17253154http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=326Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:44:14 +0000Vince LeoRoseanne Barr stars as Ruth Pratchett, a devoted wife to her accountant hubby Bob (Ed Begley Jr.), and mother to two precocious children.  One day while attending a swank party, Bob meets and eventually has a fling with best-selling romance novelist...700falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-jewel-of-the-nile-1985--17189048When a well-known leader within the fictional North African country of Kadir, a supremely wealthy sheikh named Omar (Spyros Fokas), approaches her to write his life’s story, on the hope of elevating his status among his people to become the new emperor there, Joan sees new possibilities to change her scenery, her outlook, and her horizons as a writer.  Jack and Joan reluctantly split up, but when Jack catches wind that Omar may be in possession of the mysteriously alluring “Jewel of the Nile”, his soldier-of-fortune ways get the better of him, so he decides to get a closer look in Kadir, as does the diminutive lowlife named Ralph (Danny DeVito), who insists that Jack owes him enough for them to help each other get the jewel and split their fortune.  Meanwhile, Joan discovers that Omar’s dark side and his attempt at a bloody power grab, leading her to try to get the scoop, as well as help spring a valuable prisoner who is seen as a folk hero to the people of the region, and therefore, Omar’s greatest threat to be respected as leader.]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=322Fri, 01 Mar 2019 03:10:49 +0000Vince LeoIn this follow-up to the 1984 hit, Romancing the Stone, it’s hard to live up to a “happily ever after ending”, especially for a successful romance novelist like Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), who has learned more about romance in the chase than she...When a well-known leader within the fictional North African country of Kadir, a supremely wealthy sheikh named Omar (Spyros Fokas), approaches her to write his life’s story, on the hope of elevating his status among his people to become the new emperor there, Joan sees new possibilities to change her scenery, her outlook, and her horizons as a writer.  Jack and Joan reluctantly split up, but when Jack catches wind that Omar may be in possession of the mysteriously alluring “Jewel of the Nile”, his soldier-of-fortune ways get the better of him, so he decides to get a closer look in Kadir, as does the diminutive lowlife named Ralph (Danny DeVito), who insists that Jack owes him enough for them to help each other get the jewel and split their fortune.  Meanwhile, Joan discovers that Omar’s dark side and his attempt at a bloody power grab, leading her to try to get the scoop, as well as help spring a valuable prisoner who is seen as a folk hero to the people of the region, and therefore, Omar’s greatest threat to be respected as leader.]]>1243falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/73-a-novel-romance-romancing-the-stone-1984--17127486http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=318Sat, 23 Feb 2019 19:19:43 +0000Vince LeoJoan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), a best-selling writer of romance novels, has little romance in her own life. She dreams of a tall, dark and handsome man to rescue her and whisk her off her feet, much like the hero in her series of sexy adventure...909falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/72-indy-movies-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-1989--17056079http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=313Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:22:57 +0000Vince LeoLast Crusade begins with River Phoenix playing a young Indiana Jones, even at a young age, having a thirst for adventure.  His father (Connery), who is also professor of Medieval literature, is acutely obsessed with tracking down any information he...1074falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/71-indy-movies-indiana-jones-and-the-temple-of-doom-1984--16991673http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=310Fri, 08 Feb 2019 23:55:48 +0000Vince LeoWhile INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM is a sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, it’s really a prequel, set in 1935, a year before.  Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) finds himself in Shanghai on the hunt for a precious diamond, but gets in over his...1298falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/70-indy-movies-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981--16933123Harrison Ford would catapult to super-stardom after this one, with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas solidifying their place as they greatest blockbuster filmmakers of their generation. Can't forget that amazing John Williams score, either.]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=306Sat, 02 Feb 2019 22:49:50 +0000Vince LeoThe year is 1936, just before the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime.  Hitler has been seeking the long-lost Ark of the Covenant, the container for the original tablets containing the Ten Commandments, reportedly used by God’s people in the days of...Harrison Ford would catapult to super-stardom after this one, with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas solidifying their place as they greatest blockbuster filmmakers of their generation. Can't forget that amazing John Williams score, either.]]>1217falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/69-stealing-home-the-goonies-1985--16850470http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=303Sat, 26 Jan 2019 19:31:04 +0000Vince LeoSean Astin stars as Mikey, the youngest of two brothers who are about to move from their home in Astoria, Oregon because their family lacks the funds to stop a developer from taking over the area to expand a lush country club.  This would end many...986falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/68-stealing-home-batteries-not-included-1987--16753600http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=299Sat, 19 Jan 2019 04:45:21 +0000Vince LeoReal-life married couple Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy star as Frank and Faye Riley, the owners of a small diner in a dilapidated building that also houses their apartment in the slums of Manhattan.  The rest of the tenants of the building are being...839falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/67-stealing-home-the-blues-brothers-1980--16695379http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=296Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:39:26 +0000Vince LeoThe film starts out with Jake Blues (John Belushi) being released from prison, picked up by his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) in a used cop car turned “Blues Mobile”.  They make good on a promise to visit the orphanage they grew up in, only to find it...984falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/66-breakin-through-breakin-2-electric-boogaloo-1984--16633962http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=292Sat, 05 Jan 2019 02:50:43 +0000Vince LeoSomewhere underneath the never-ending music and dance numbers is a story about keeping Shabba-Doo’s community center for inner city youth (named “Miracles”) from falling into the hands of a slimy developer who wants to bulldoze it to erect a shopping...1002falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/65-breakin-through-breakin-1984--16589180http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=288Sat, 29 Dec 2018 17:30:23 +0000Vince LeoFormer “Solid Gold” dancer Lucinda Dickey stars as Kelly, a waitress by day, aspiring jazz dancer in her spare time.  She has the looks and talent to go far, at least according to her dance instructor, but this move seems to come at a price, as he...710falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/64-breakin-through-style-wars-1983--16550329http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=285Sun, 23 Dec 2018 01:36:39 +0000Vince LeoStyle Wars is a documentary look at the street art among the youth of New York in the early 1980s, especially in the South Bronx, particularly in graffiti art and break-dancing.  The film takes a balanced look at the youth culture, showing the...795falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/63-rap-attack-beat-street-1984--16479957http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=281Sat, 15 Dec 2018 01:00:42 +0000Vince LeoProducer and activist Harry Belafonte's commercialized slice-of-life drama stars Guy Davis as Kenny ‘Double K' Kirkland, a South Bronx hip-hop DJ with big dreams, and Jon Chardiet as Ramon, a Puerto Rican graffiti artist who would rather tag trains...770falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/62-rap-attack-wild-style-1983--16418718http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=277Sat, 08 Dec 2018 16:36:21 +0000Vince LeoThe seminal hip-hop film looks at underground Bronx art culture, including rap, graffiti art, break-dancing (aka b-boying) and DJing (aka turntablism), as we follow the exploits of a graffiti artist named Zoro and his quest to take his art and make it...666falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/61-rap-attack-krush-groove-1985--16360022http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=273Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:32:27 +0000Vince LeoThe loose story of how Def Jam came to be, featuring the hottest hip-hop artists of the mid-1980s, Run-DMC, Kurtis Blow, The Fat Boys, LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, and many more.  Blair Underwood plays Russell, whose management company is coming up...947falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/60-dancing-on-air-berry-gordy-s-the-last-dragon-1985--16308549http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=269Sun, 25 Nov 2018 23:44:28 +0000Vince LeoTaimak stars as a young African-American Harlemite who is a devout student of martial arts.  He lives kung fu, breathes kung fu and is so entrenched in the ways of the kung fu warrior, he stands out in his predominantly Black community for his lack of...891falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/59-dancing-on-air-girls-just-want-to-have-fun-1985--16247088http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=265Sat, 17 Nov 2018 17:28:16 +0000Vince LeoSarah Jessica Parker stars as a Chicago teenager who works her tail off for a spot as a dance on her favorite dance show on television, but spats with her dance partner and a potentially rigged contest makes for a great challenge to success, not to...824falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/58-dancing-on-air-hairspray-1988--16199511 ]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=262Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:13:59 +0000Vince LeoJohn Waters writes and directs this most accessible of his films, his only one to be rated PG, with HAIRSPRAY, the film that made Ricki Lake a prominent star to be.  Set in 1962, HAIRSPRAY explores race and class in a mostly divided Baltimore, where... ]]>719falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/freddy-s-dead-the-final-nightmare-1991--16124006http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=257Sat, 03 Nov 2018 01:41:51 +0000Vince LeoThe sixth and final in the original Freddy Krueger arc finds us ten years in the future, where the psycho demon has killed off all but one of the original Elm Street children.  Needing new souls to maintain his power, Freddy plans to use the last teen...856falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/56-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-5-the-dream-child-1989--16061779http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=253Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:30:54 +0000Vince LeoThe fifth entry in the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET series sees the return of Lisa Wilcox as the heroine, Alice, taking on Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) yet again, who has come back to haunt her nightmares through her unborn child. Freddy wants to be...929falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/55-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-4-the-dream-master-1988--16009866http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=250Sat, 20 Oct 2018 14:03:50 +0000Vince LeoFuture action movie maestro Renny Harlin came to Hollywood from Finland to take over the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET franchise for one entry with THE DREAM MASTER, in which Freddy Krueger gets resurrected in order to get revenge on those who put him in...925falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/54-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-3-dream-warriors-1987--15932532http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=246Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:24:42 +0000Vince LeoThe third time was certainly the charm in the Nightmare on Elm Street" series with DREAM WARRIORS, which put together a team of adept but troubled teenagers in taking on the fiercely powerful (and growing more so by the day, Freddy Krueger, who is out...1007falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/53-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-part-2-freddy-s-revenge-1985--15883960http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=242Fri, 05 Oct 2018 02:47:33 +0000Vince LeoA very speedy follow-up to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET replaces Wes Craven as the creative force, taking the series in a new and unexpected direction under the guiding influence of Jack Sholder.  Screenwriter David Chaskin supplies the subversive...1097falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/52-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-1984--15841221http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=239Sun, 30 Sep 2018 00:21:46 +0000Vince LeoWes Craven refreshed the struggling slasher film genre with this more surreal and intense take, saving New Line Cinema with one of the big surprise hits of 1984: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET.  Heather Langenkamp  stars as Nancy Thompson, who finds out...1185falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/51-in-your-dreams-dreamscape-1984--15771078http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=235Fri, 21 Sep 2018 03:12:06 +0000Vince LeoDreamscape stars Dennis Quaid as a psychic enlisted into a top-secret government experiment that puts him into the nightmares of another person in order to cure them.  However, when the President of the United States becomes the subject, he finds...855falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/50-in-your-dreams-brainstorm-1983--15723912http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=232Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:45:24 +0000Vince LeoChristopher Walken stars as a scientist out to protect his project, one that involves being able to experience the senses and emotions of another person, from getting into the wrong hands.  Natalie Wood, in her final film role, co-stars as the wife he...1317falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/49-in-your-dreams-explorers-1985--15663242http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=228Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:03:09 +0000Vince LeoJoe Dante's Explorers marks the big screen debuts of two future stars, Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix, who, along with Jason Presson, make up the three young boys with a thirst for adventure and scientific exploration.  In their dreams, the boys have a...743falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/48-dangerous-games-tron-1982-a-podcast-film-review--15614692http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=224Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:08:06 +0000Vince LeoDisney's first big foray into the realm of computer animation would prove to be a box office disappoiuntmen in 1982, but garner a legion of fans over the years for its revolutionary design work and the influence it still continue to have in science...1296falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/47-dangerous-games-cloak-dagger-1984--15559906http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=220Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:20:45 +0000Vince LeoHenry Thomas plays Davey, a young San Antonio boy with a vivid imagination and a love o fantasy games.  The lines between fantasy and reality blur when he ends up in possession of a video game cartridge that is the conduit for top secret information...920falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/46-dangerous-games-wargames-1983-a-podcast-film-review--15517417http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=217Sat, 18 Aug 2018 02:12:52 +0000Vince LeoMatthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy star in this major hit from 1983, one of the first films to break through into the world of hacking and the burgeoning internet, WarGames.  Directed by John Badham, this tells the tale of a teenager who hacks into a...1197falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/45-superbad-superman-iv-the-quest-for-peace-1987-a-podcast-film-review--15462877http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=213Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:04:13 +0000Vince LeoAlthough he had claimed to be done putting on the red cape after SUPERMAN III, Reeve is lured back to make a fourth entry with a different studio from an idea he had written himself to bring back the series to respectability.  Alas, it didn't quite...1001falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/44-superbad-supergirl-1984-a-podcast-film-review--15417211http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=209Sat, 04 Aug 2018 00:44:23 +0000Vince LeoJust as Kal-El was sent by his parents to Earth from a dying planet in order to save him, so too did Alexander and Ilya Salkind try to save their dying franchise by trying to spin it off with a new character with Kara, Superman's cousin, better known...1050falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/43-superbad-superman-iii-1983-a-podcast-film-review--15349599http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=205Sat, 28 Jul 2018 21:54:36 +0000Vince LeoGone is Richard Donner, gone is Gene Hackman, and gone is the epic feel of the SUPERMAN series with SUPERMAN III, in which the creators finally wrest the controls away to make what they've been wanting to make all along: comedies!  Richard Lester...1026falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/42-we-see-dc-superman-ii-1980-a-podcast-film-review--15336875http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=201Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:59:10 +0000Vince LeoA patchwork film that somehow still works great as a piece of entertainment, despite the switch in directors from Richard Donner to Richard Lester a great deal of the way through.  Three power-hungry Kryptonians travel to Earth to dominate it, and the...1259falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/41-we-see-dc-superman-1978-a-podcast-film-review--15336876http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=194Sat, 14 Jul 2018 20:06:38 +0000Vince LeoThe granddaddy of the modern-day superhero flick, 1978's SUPERMAN put together a truly epic experience befitting a popular hero on the magnitude of Superman. Richard Donner directed DC Comics' legendary property from his infancy on the planet Krypton...1242falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/40-we-see-dc-batman-1989-a-podcast-film-review--15211405http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=191Sat, 07 Jul 2018 20:43:01 +0000Vince LeoOne of the biggest blockbusters of the 1980s, and of all time, Tim Burton would take the reins of Warner Bros. hugest hit with 1989's BATMAN, a much more dark and eerie take on the character than any prior screen take to date.  With a tremendous Danny...1353falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/39-vegetable-is-animal-the-return-of-swamp-thing-1989--15154349http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=187Fri, 29 Jun 2018 02:05:09 +0000Vince LeoSeven years after Wes Craven's original adaptation of the DC Comics superhero, Jim Wynorski takes a stab by sending the whole thing up as a campy b-movie sci-fi/horror hybrid. Swamp Thing (Dick Durock again) is back as protector of a hot babe in the...837falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-vegetable-is-animal-swamp-thing-1982--15117505Note: I neglected to mention that next week's show will be on the follow-up, RETURN OF SWAMP THING (1989)]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=184Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:50:41 +0000Vince LeoWes Craven wrote and directed this adaptation of the DC Comics superhero, once a scientist trying to help humanity, who turns superhuman when he is doused with his own experimental formula to use plants to help humans while in the nearby Louisiana...Note: I neglected to mention that next week's show will be on the follow-up, RETURN OF SWAMP THING (1989)]]>887falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/37-vegetable-is-animal-little-shop-of-horrors-1986--15065661http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=180Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:19:54 +0000Vince LeoHoward Ashman and Alan Menken's off-Broadway darkly comical stage musical came to life in 1986, directed by Muppet-alum Frank Oz, featuring Rick Moranis, and small roles for Steve Martin, Bill Murray and John Candy.  Ellen Greene co-stars in this...1053falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/36-those-marvel-ous-toys-g-i-joe-the-movie-1987--15004303http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=170Sat, 09 Jun 2018 02:31:02 +0000Vince LeoRounding out this trio of Hasbro toy-based films put out by Marvel/Sunbow in the mid-1980s, "GI Joe: The Movie" has the dishonorable distinction of being funneled straight to video and subsequently syndicated on television due to the lack of success...969falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/35-those-marvel-ous-toys-my-little-pony-the-movie-1986--14957717http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=167Sun, 03 Jun 2018 03:20:50 +0000Vince LeoMarvel joined with Sunbow to deliver the first of four animated feature films based on Hasbro toys in the 1980s with 1986's MY LITTLE PONY: THE MOVIE, which took the popular toy line of dolls resembling ponies and other animals (plus a few humans) and...715falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-those-marvel-ous-toys-the-transformers-the-movie-1986-podcast-film-review--14884898http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=152Fri, 25 May 2018 11:15:55 +0000Vince LeoThe first of four feature-length ventures between Marvel Productions and Sunbow Entertainment that centered on toys made by Hasbro, THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE would make for an ambitious way to not only sell toys and entertain fans, but also to set...1089falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/33-swords-of-enchantment-masters-of-the-universe-1987-podcast-film-review--14825980The film starts off in the mythical land of Eternia, where the ruthless villain Skeletor (Frank Langella) has managed, with the help of a powerful musical cosmic key, to capture Castle Grayskull, the source for a wealth of magic and power in the region.  Skeletor has taken the powerful good Sorceress (Christina Pickles) prisoner and has been draining her of her essence to channel into his own, making him more powerful as time goes on.  However, the great hero of Eternia, He-Man (Dolph Lundgren), is still free, and with his cronies, the faithful Man-at-War (Jon Cypher) and his daughter Teela (Chelsea Field), he seeks to thwart Skeletor’s plans for dominion over Eternia and restore Castle Grayskull back to its original state.
Their plans go awry when the cosmic key’s creator, the dwarven creature known as Gwildor (Billy Barty), opens up a portal to modern Earth with a prototype of the same key for them to escape Skeletor’s clutches.  The key is lost on arrival to Earth, soon found by a couple of high school aged teens named Julie (Courteney Cox) and Kevin (Robert Duncan McNeill), who activate it thinking it must be some newfangled musical device.  However, using the device alerts Skeletor as to its whereabouts, and once he has pinpointed its location, he sends a band of mercenaries to recover the key and ensnare He-Man, of whom he plans to make an example of in custody to break the will of any would-be heroes left in Eternia.]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=131Fri, 18 May 2018 10:01:16 +0000Vince LeoThe Cannon Group took a bath with the failure of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE in 1987, a film that had gone over budget and well beyond schedule. The film starts off in the mythical land of Eternia, where the ruthless villain Skeletor (Frank Langella) has...The film starts off in the mythical land of Eternia, where the ruthless villain Skeletor (Frank Langella) has managed, with the help of a powerful musical cosmic key, to capture Castle Grayskull, the source for a wealth of magic and power in the region.  Skeletor has taken the powerful good Sorceress (Christina Pickles) prisoner and has been draining her of her essence to channel into his own, making him more powerful as time goes on.  However, the great hero of Eternia, He-Man (Dolph Lundgren), is still free, and with his cronies, the faithful Man-at-War (Jon Cypher) and his daughter Teela (Chelsea Field), he seeks to thwart Skeletor’s plans for dominion over Eternia and restore Castle Grayskull back to its original state.
Their plans go awry when the cosmic key’s creator, the dwarven creature known as Gwildor (Billy Barty), opens up a portal to modern Earth with a prototype of the same key for them to escape Skeletor’s clutches.  The key is lost on arrival to Earth, soon found by a couple of high school aged teens named Julie (Courteney Cox) and Kevin (Robert Duncan McNeill), who activate it thinking it must be some newfangled musical device.  However, using the device alerts Skeletor as to its whereabouts, and once he has pinpointed its location, he sends a band of mercenaries to recover the key and ensnare He-Man, of whom he plans to make an example of in custody to break the will of any would-be heroes left in Eternia.]]>1123falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/32-swords-of-enchantment-excalibur-1981-podcast-film-review--14782250http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=127Sun, 13 May 2018 14:16:47 +0000Vince LeoJohn Boorman's polarizing but highly ambitious take on Arthurian legend is a visually and aurally striking look into the myth, the fantasy, and the haunting imagery that the medieval Thomas Malory tale has evoked over the last several centuries.  A...784falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/31-swords-of-enchantment-the-black-cauldron-1985-podcast-film-review--14714382http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=123Sat, 05 May 2018 16:21:21 +0000Vince Leo1985's THE BLACK CAULDRON represents Disney at its nadir as an animation studio, resulting in a box office failure and years of obscurity.  It's first PG-rated animated feature struggled to find an audience clamoring for its dark and violent tones. ...938falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/30-no-monster-can-keep-us-apart-dragonslayer-1981-podcast-film-review--14671237http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=119Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:53:11 +0000Vince LeoDisney collaborated with Paramount Pictures to make a fairly adventure for audiences that were a bit older in DRAGONSLAYER, a rousing but somewhat brutally dark tale of a sorcerer's apprentice who must undertake the treacherous journey of slaying a...686falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/29-no-monster-can-keep-us-apart-clash-of-the-titans-1981-podcast-film-review--14671238Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, and Burgess Meredith are in supporting roles in this dated but charming fantasy flick.]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=115Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:28:10 +0000Vince LeoRay Harryhausen's final film marked the popular early 1980s adventure based on ancient Greek myths, CLASH OF THE TITANS.  Harry Hamlin stars as Perseus, the illegitimate mortal son of Zeus who ends up falling for the beautiful princess Andromeda,...Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, and Burgess Meredith are in supporting roles in this dated but charming fantasy flick.]]>898falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/28-no-monster-can-keep-us-apart-the-little-mermaid-1989-podcast-film-review--14671239http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=110Sat, 14 Apr 2018 18:39:45 +0000Vince LeoThe Disney Renaissance kicked off with this smash hit animated feature that brought the studio back in a major way, THE LITTLE MERMAID!  Featuring great vocal talent, quality animation, and a killer score and soundtrack, it delighted a generation, and...1096falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/27-the-girl-of-my-dreams-splash-1984-podcast-film-review--14671236http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=106Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:45:51 +0000Vince LeoRon Howard directs this delightful romantic comedy that would score one of the biggest hits of 1984, SPLASH.  Tom Hanks, Darryl Hannah and John Candy would all propel to a more secure stardom after their roles in this screwball but tender love story...743falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/26-the-girl-of-my-dreams-mannequin-1987-podcast-film-review--14671240http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=100Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:05:36 +0000Vince LeoAndrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall star in this smash hit bubblegum romance about a struggling artist who falls in love with a mannequin possessed by a lovelorn ancient Egyptian spirit who turns his life around.  James Spader, Estell Getty, and Meshach...693falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/25-the-girl-of-my-dreams-xanadu-1980-podcast-film-review--14671242http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=97Sat, 24 Mar 2018 23:25:25 +0000Vince LeoThe much-maligned 1980 musical gets re-evaluated in this podcast review.  Olivia Newton-John plays a muse who is sent to earth to inspire a struggling artist (Michael Beck) fulfill his dream of starting a roller-disco club with a retired construction...1167falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/24-brink-of-extinction-legend-1985-podcast-film-review--14671243http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=92Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:53:58 +0000Vince LeoFollowing up two sci-fi masterpieces in ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER, Ridley Scott turned his gaze toward the realm of fantasy with LEGEND, starring Tom Cruise and Mia Sara.  Critics greeted the film with a shrug upon its initial release, but it has gained...1129falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/23-brink-of-extinction-the-last-unicorn-1982-film-podcast-review--14671244http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=89Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:31:43 +0000Vince LeoRankin and Bass, the team that brought us Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as well as the ThunderCats, brought this charming animated feature featuring Japanese animation from the team who would go on to form Studio Ghibli, and voiced by stars like Mia...931falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/22-brink-of-extinction-the-dark-crystal-1982-podcast-film-review--14671245http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=86Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:03:02 +0000Vince LeoJim Henson conceived of this elaborate realm of fantasy in which two competing races vie for the destiny of a faraway planet, as the evil Skeksis try to thwart the Gelflings of prophecy from uniting the planet yet again and bringing equilibrium to...1143falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/21-back-to-the-future-part-iii-1990-podcast-film-review--14671248 
 ]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=83Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:48:02 +0000Vince LeoThe third and final entry in the BACK TO THE FUTURE Trilogy sees Marty and Doc in the Old West of Hill Valley in 1885, where Marty must save Doc from getting gunned down by an ancestor of Biff Tannen.  It's a softer, and more romantic effort, as Doc... 
 ]]>761falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-back-to-the-future-part-ii-1989-podcast-film-review--14671249This ingenious sequel takes the premise of the original film for a loop-de-loop of logic few were expecting it to go, from the minds of Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale.]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=80Fri, 16 Feb 2018 03:22:18 +0000Vince LeoMarty and Doc must head 30 years into the future to save Marty's kids from calamity,l but end up making a mess of the past when Biff Tannen takes over the DeLorean.  Will they save themselves, and their pasts, as well as their futures? This ingenious...This ingenious sequel takes the premise of the original film for a loop-de-loop of logic few were expecting it to go, from the minds of Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale.]]>846falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/19-back-to-the-future-1985-film-podcast-review--14671250Michael J. Fox plays 17-year-old Marty McFly, a spirited teenager who doesn’t seem to quite fit in with his current family, so much so that he spends a great deal of his time helping out an eccentric local scientist, Doc Brown, in his kooky experiments.  One night, Doc calls Marty out to an empty mall parking lot to witness his latest triumph, a souped- up DeLorean that he has modified as a time machine.  Upset that Doc has used the plutonium given to make a proposed nuclear bomb for his own machine, some angry terrorists gun him down in cold blood, leaving Marty with no other choice than to escape in the DeLorean, which sends him back in time to the date Doc first came up with the idea for time travel, November 5th, 1955, which also happens to be the date that Marty’s parents met and fell for each other.  Problems ensue when Marty’s mother begins to fall for him instead, which would completely negate the existence of Marty and his siblings.  Marty must find a way for his parents to fall in love, and get back to the future without the nuclear component necessary, with only the younger Doc Brown to help him.]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=77Fri, 09 Feb 2018 01:23:06 +0000Vince LeoRobert Zemeckis, Bob Gale and Steven Spielberg present the original 1985 class, BACK TO THE FUTURE! Michael J. Fox plays 17-year-old Marty McFly, a spirited teenager who doesn’t seem to quite fit in with his current family, so much so that he spends a...Michael J. Fox plays 17-year-old Marty McFly, a spirited teenager who doesn’t seem to quite fit in with his current family, so much so that he spends a great deal of his time helping out an eccentric local scientist, Doc Brown, in his kooky experiments.  One night, Doc calls Marty out to an empty mall parking lot to witness his latest triumph, a souped- up DeLorean that he has modified as a time machine.  Upset that Doc has used the plutonium given to make a proposed nuclear bomb for his own machine, some angry terrorists gun him down in cold blood, leaving Marty with no other choice than to escape in the DeLorean, which sends him back in time to the date Doc first came up with the idea for time travel, November 5th, 1955, which also happens to be the date that Marty’s parents met and fell for each other.  Problems ensue when Marty’s mother begins to fall for him instead, which would completely negate the existence of Marty and his siblings.  Marty must find a way for his parents to fall in love, and get back to the future without the nuclear component necessary, with only the younger Doc Brown to help him.]]>811falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-hi-concept-high-school-my-science-project-1985-film-review-podcast--14671251http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=74Fri, 02 Feb 2018 03:39:05 +0000Vince LeoJohn Stockwell, Fisher Stevens and Dennis Hopper appear in this low-budget sci-fi/comedy from 1985, MY SCIENCE PROJECT, where teens find an alien contraption of seemingly unlimited power that opens a portal from which people and things from Earth's...709falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/17-hi-concept-high-school-peggy-sue-got-married-1986-podcast-film-review--14671253http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=71Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:34:08 +0000Vince LeoFrancis Ford Coppola directs this fluffy but endearing film that asks the age-old question, "what if we could do it all over again?" An Oscar-nominated performance from Kathleen Turner bolsters this whimsical romantic comedy-drama with a time-travel...817falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/16-hi-concept-high-school-bill-ted-s-excellent-adventure-1989-film-review-podcast--14671252http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=69Sat, 20 Jan 2018 23:52:28 +0000Vince LeoThe breakthrough performance for Keanu Reeves, along with co-star Alex Winter, in this fun time-traveling romp through history, as two California teens pick up verious historical figures in their phone booth through time to pass an oral presentation...687falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/15-the-bluth-shall-set-you-free-the-land-before-time-1988-movie-review-podcast--14671254http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=66Sat, 13 Jan 2018 22:52:13 +0000Vince LeoDon Bluth collaborates with executive producer Steven Spielberg again, this time also joining forces with George Lucas for THE LAND BEFORE TIME, the film that would kick off a series of ten additional straight-to-video animated features for kids. ...629falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/14-the-bluth-shall-set-you-free-an-american-tail-1986-podcast-film-review--14671255http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=62Sat, 06 Jan 2018 01:44:28 +0000Vince LeoDon Bluth's second feature film as director sees him joining forces with producer Steven Spielberg for AN AMERICAN TAIL, which details the immigrant experience for many of American ancestors in their long journey to the land of freedom and...698falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/13-the-bluth-shall-set-you-free-the-secret-of-nimh-1982-podcast-movie-review--14671257http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=57Sat, 30 Dec 2017 20:02:51 +0000Vince LeoDon Bluth's first big screen effort under his own name after splitting from Disney, along with several other Disney animators and artists, in order to try to return to the kind of groundbreaking style and commitments to storytelling that their former...1009falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/scrooged-1988-richard-donner--19917041
Bill Murray stars as Frank Cross in this modern take on the Charles Dickens' class, "A Christmas Carol". Richard Donner directs.]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=54Mon, 25 Dec 2017 03:18:10 +0000Vince LeoI look back at a film that some people herald as a great Christmas film.  I've always had issues, but wanted to give it another shot.  Do I come around? Bill Murray stars as Frank Cross in this modern take on the Charles Dickens' class, "A Christmas...
Bill Murray stars as Frank Cross in this modern take on the Charles Dickens' class, "A Christmas Carol". Richard Donner directs.]]>715falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/national-lampoon-s-christmas-vacation-1989-jeremiah-s-chechik--19917038http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=51Sat, 23 Dec 2017 02:57:51 +0000Vince LeoThe third in National Lampoon's Vacation series, Christmas Vacation has gone on from being a minor blip to a holiday favorite for many families over the years.  Chevy Chase at his most slapstick-y sets the formula for many dysfunctional Christmas...673falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-christmas-story-1983-bob-clark--19917050http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=49Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:15:52 +0000Vince LeoBob Clark directs and co-writes my favorite Christmas film of the 1980s, and perhaps my favorite of any era, A CHRISTMAS STORY, a nostalgic look at childhood that makes me nostalgic for my own.  Peter Billingsley stars as Ralphie, who wants more than...630falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/9-let-s-get-small-the-incredible-shrinking-woman-1981-podcast-film-review--14671260http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=46Sun, 03 Dec 2017 19:21:03 +0000Vince LeoLily Tomlin stars in this wacky comedy from 1981, playing multiple roles, exploring the satirical themes of the diminishing role of the American housekeeper in the period, getting smaller, literally, by the day, as she eventually measures only two...910falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/8-let-s-get-small-innerspace-1987-podcast-film-review--14671261http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=44Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:58:36 +0000Vince LeoIn this episode, Vince takes a look at "Innerspace" from director Joe Dante, starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, and Meg Ryan.  produced by Steven Spielberg, this sci-fi based comedy riffs on "Fantastic Voyage" where an unassuming supermarket clerk...534falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/7-let-s-get-small-honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-1989-podcast-film-review--14671262http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=41Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:50:32 +0000Vince LeoRick Moranis stars as lovable dad and ambitious college professor Wayne Szalinski, who has recently become something of a laughing stock to his peers when he dares to introduce a potential way to drastically reduce the size of everyday objects.  His...668falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/6-fairy-tales-labyrinth-1986-podcast-film-review--14671264http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=37Sun, 05 Nov 2017 21:05:46 +0000Vince LeoJennifer Connelly is cast in one of her first starring roles as Sarah, a teenage girl who has grown tired of her stepmother and father leaving her home alone to babysit her infant brother, Toby.  In a bout of exasperation, she wishes him away, and...925falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/5-fairy-tales-ladyhawke-1985-podcast-film-review--14671266http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=35Mon, 30 Oct 2017 01:01:34 +0000Vince LeoSet in France during the Middle Ages, Philippe ‘The Mouse' Gaston, a convicted pickpocket escapes from a castle dungeon only to get involved in a bitter feud between the powerful, scheming Bishop of Aquila and two lovers, a former captain of the guard...1110falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/4-fairy-tales-the-princess-bride-1987-podcast-film-review--14671268http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=31Sun, 22 Oct 2017 18:41:35 +0000Vince LeoA sick young boy gets a visit from his grandfather, who reads the young lad one of his favorite books, ‘The Princess Bride'. The book is of a princess named Buttercup, who has a romance with her stable boy, Westley but the evil Prince Humperdinck has...824falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/3-star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-podcast-film-review--14671267http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=27Sun, 08 Oct 2017 12:28:38 +0000Vince LeoThis final entry sees the Empire creating a new Death Star, a feat with such magnitude, even the Emperor himself has come to oversee the progress.  Meanwhile, a rescue attempt is underway to try to spring Han Solo from his icy trap in Jabba the Hut's...862falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2-star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-podcast-film-review--14671270http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=24Sun, 01 Oct 2017 12:39:02 +0000Vince LeoThe Empire Strikes Back continues the Star Wars saga in exciting fashion, with the Empire now having driven the Rebels from their secret base to another on an ice planet called Hoth. The Empire eventually locates this new base, forcing an...899falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1-star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope--14671271 
A couple of robots shuttle to a desert planet after their rebel spaceship is taken over by an Imperial star cruiser, capturing everyone on board including the Rebel Alliance princess, Leia. Leia has sent the robots to Tattooine to convey a message to a man named Obi-Wan Kenobi, who she claims is the only hope left for the rebels to beat the evil Empire.  A pair of Tattooine farmers buy the droids after they are captured by some scavengers to use on their farm, and after the farmer boy, Luke,discovers the princess' message, he heads to Obi-Wan to deliver it. While he is away, his family is killed by the Empire seeking the droids, as they make their escape from the planet with the aid of a galactic smuggler named Han Solo, and make their way to help the princess, who is now aboard a space station powerful enough to destroy an entire planet in seconds, the Death Star, to which the rebels have obtained plans that reveal a weakness to destroy it — if only their home base doesn't get destroyed first.]]>http://around80s.blubrry.net/?p=11Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:08:45 +0000Vince LeoThe inaugural review of the 1980s film retrospective, looking at George Lucas' monumental blockbuster.  yes, it's from 1977, but necessary to dip back to review the later films.   A couple of robots shuttle to a desert planet after their rebel... 
A couple of robots shuttle to a desert planet after their rebel spaceship is taken over by an Imperial star cruiser, capturing everyone on board including the Rebel Alliance princess, Leia. Leia has sent the robots to Tattooine to convey a message to a man named Obi-Wan Kenobi, who she claims is the only hope left for the rebels to beat the evil Empire.  A pair of Tattooine farmers buy the droids after they are captured by some scavengers to use on their farm, and after the farmer boy, Luke,discovers the princess' message, he heads to Obi-Wan to deliver it. While he is away, his family is killed by the Empire seeking the droids, as they make their escape from the planet with the aid of a galactic smuggler named Han Solo, and make their way to help the princess, who is now aboard a space station powerful enough to destroy an entire planet in seconds, the Death Star, to which the rebels have obtained plans that reveal a weakness to destroy it — if only their home base doesn't get destroyed first.]]>1237falsefull