The 80s Movie Podcast

Jan 30 2025 133 ep. 36 mins 137
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We’re your ticket to the movies! Since 2019, film historian and former critic Edward A. Havens III has carefully curated a unique cinematic journey through 1980s films, covering a wide variety of aspects of cinema of the day, from distributors barely remembered and films long forgotten, to the biggest actors and filmmakers of the decade.

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Collision Course

Jan 30 2025 14 mins  
On this episode, our first episode of our seventh season and first in more than six months, our host apologizes for baiting and switching episodes, explains the long delay, and talks about the only movie ever made to star comedian and talk show host Jay Leno.

The 1980s Films of Susan Seidelman: Desperately Seeking Susan

Jul 11 2024 15 mins  
On this episode, we’re going to continue with our series on the 1980s movies of director Susan Seidelman, talking about her biggest hit film, 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan.

Brats

Jun 21 2024 12 mins  
We pause our retrospective on the 1980s movies of director Susan Seidelman to examine Andrew McCarthy new Hulu documentary about the Brat Pack and how a single article in 1985 may or may not have affect his career and the careers of many of his co-stars and friends.

The 1980s Films of Susan Seidelman: Smithereens

Jun 12 2024 16 mins  
On this episode, we’re going to start a miniseries on the 1980s films from director Susan Seidelman. Like last year, with Martha Coolidge, I want to highlight at least one female filmmaker each year from the decade that made a significant impact on filmmaking and culture as a whole, and Ms. Seidelman definitely fits that description.

Crimewave

May 27 2024 20 mins  
On this episode, we’re going to tackle a movie from the early 1980s that, if made today with the same pedigree, would cause movie geeks and cinephiles to lose their freaking minds over. But because this was made early in their careers, most people are only tangentially aware of its existence, let alone have actually seen it. We’re talking about the 1986 Sam Raimi/Coen Brothers

Smokey and the Bandit Part 3

May 12 2024 23 mins  
Our first episode returning from paternity leave takes us back to 1983, and one of two sequel bombs Universal made with Jackie Gleason that year, Smokey and the Bandit Part 3. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it’s The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. On this episode

Threads

Jan 12 2024 24 mins  
Welcome to the first episode of our sixth season, the first of three episodes to begin the new year before our two month hiatus. This episode, we do our first ever Listener Freebie, letting Lee Thompson, one of our biggest supporters in the United Kingdom, pick the movie we cover this episode. Lee chose the 1984 British television drama Threads, and we are proud to talk about this

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Dec 28 2023 34 mins  
For our final episode of 2023, the podcast takes a look back at the history of one of the best and most popular films of the decade, 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Deep in the Heart (aka Handgun)

Nov 30 2023 16 mins  
On this week’s episode, we talk about a movie that was buried by one of the major American distributors back in 1984, due to its similarity to a Clint Eastwood movie they were making at the time, and how it’s finally going to get a second chance with viewers forty years later. Tony Garnett’s Deep in the Heart.

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Nov 25 2023 13 mins  
This week, we go back to the 1984 summer movie season, with one of the most forgotten movies of the decade, for good reason: Chattanooga Choo Choo, starring Barbara Eden, George Kennedy, Melissa Sue Anderson, Christopher McDonald, Joe Namath, and Joe Namath’s 1969 Super Bowl III championship ring.