30something Movie Podcast

In a movie that's campy in more ways than one, Ernest P. Worrell tries to help a group of misfit boys turn their lives around and save Camp Kikakee from the evil developer Sherman Krader who just wants the land so he can tear it up and mine it. With a little help from the boys, some turtles, and the secret recipe for eggs erroneous, Ernest might just save the day. 1. Intro & Disney-Fox merger news...

Justice League was a step in the right direction for the DCEU. John, Jeff, Pat, Bo, and special guest Will talk about why this is one of the best DCEU movies to date! 1. Intro [0:00] 2. Justice League background info/trailer [6:08] 3. Justice League discussion [18:23] 4. Wrap-up [1:40:28] The trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cxixDgHUYw&t=6s  

The 80s was full of movies showcasing the plight of the modern teenager... and John Hughes was the master. Unfortunately, John Hughes didn't make this one. What do you get when you cross a story about a boy wanting to be popular with good old-fashioned almost-prostitution? Can't Buy Me Love! 1. Intro & 1987 in Review discussion [0:00] 2. Can't Buy Me Love background info/trailer [19:50] 3. Can't B...

J.C. Wiatt can't have a baby because she's got a 12:30 lunch meeting. Or at least, that's what she thought before a relative died and left her with a toddler to raise in the midst of her busy corporate life. Baby Boom stars Diane Keaton, Harold Ramis, and Sam Shepard. 1. Intro & Thor: Ragnarok discussion [0:00] 2. Baby Boom background info/trailer [29:18] 3. Baby Boom discussion [35:30] 4. Wrap-up...

We came to a startling realization that Michael J. Fox features in more than one role where a relative wants to give new meaning to the term "family get-together." Regardless, the secret of The Secret of My Success is that it's a fun, lighthearted take on big business in the 80s. 1. Intro [0:00] 2. The Secret of My Success background info/trailer [17:59] 3. The Secret of My Success discussion [27:...

Gordon Gekko (which I always thought would be a great name for the Geico gecko) is a ruthless Wall Street player who makes multi-million dollar deals before most of us have had breakfast. Bud Fox is a young and restless stock broker looking to score a big client. When he finally gets his foot in the door of Gekko's office, it may have been more than he bargained for. 1. Intro [0:00] 2. Wall Street...

Take the cast of ALIENS and put them in Oklahoma... and make them vampires. Then you've got Kathryn Bigelow's feature film directing debut: NEAR DARK. (I wonder what Paul Reiser would've looked like as a vampire...) 1. Intro [0:00] 2. Near Dark background info/trailer [26:06] 3. Near Dark discussion [36:40] 4. Wrap-up [1:18:39]   The trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzJz5pd3pTs  

It’s the epic love story for the ages: Girl meets boy. Girl marries boy. Girl is bored with husband and has affair with husband’s brother. Brother-in-law gets bored with the limits of earthly pleasure and pain and gets ripped apart and taken to another dimension. Girl moves into brother-in-law’s old house and ultimately discovers undead skinless brother-in-law in the attic. Girl begins to seduce a...

You see what I did there? It's called PRINCE of Darkness and the visions from the future take place in 1999, so it's like the song "1999 (Party Like It's 1999)" by Prince. Right? Shut up. Anyway, apparently Jesus was an alien who started a secret society 2,000 years ago which became the Catholic Church and kept the secret that what we thought was God was really the Anti-god and is evil and his son...

Arnold and his friends go on a tropical vacation and find that all is not what it seems in this light-hearted family-friendly romp through the jungle. It's PREDATOR! (Rated R for some slight non-family-friendly elements) 1. Intro [0:00] 2. Predator discussion [11:55] 3. Wrap-up  [41:22] The trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKDNI_CjpcE  

When the United States and North Korea threaten nuclear war... oops, sorry... jump back 30 years. When the United States and the Soviet Union threaten nuclear war, it takes a mind-wiped Lois Lane and some random school kid's letter for Superman to decide to rid the world of nuclear weapons. He gets more than he bargained for, however, when Lex Luthor returns to the scene and has engineered the per...

Have you ever had one of those days where you had a plan in mind, but everything went wrong? Let's say, for example, you planned to be miniaturized and injected into a lab rabbit so you could study it from the inside, but instead the lab was attacked by saboteurs who wanted to steal the technology for themselves and you ended up being inadvertently injected into a grocery store assistant manager w...

When real estate developers strike and the Goonies aren't around to save you, who can the residents of a dilapidated old apartment building/diner turn to...? The Fix-its, of course! 1. Intro [0:00] 2. Superman Extended Edition release [8:14] 3. Spaceballs: The Auction (and X-Files returns again) [22:27] 4. *batteries not included Background Info/Trailer [25:57] 5. *batteries not included Discussio...

Pat, Jeff and John decided to put each other through the torment of having to narrow down their favorite movie composers, scores, individual songs, etc. to a series of "top 5" lists. Here's part 3! 1. Intro [0:00] 2. Favorite Dramatic Scores [31:55] 3. Favorite Compilation Soundtracks [1:00:49] 4. Honorable Mentions [1:16:14] 5. Wrap-up [1:38:05]

Pat, Jeff and John decided to put each other through the torment of having to narrow down their favorite movie composers, scores, individual songs, etc. to a series of "top 5" lists. Here's part 2! (And feel free to weigh in on the Blues Brothers is/isn't a musical debate!) 1. Intro/Favorite Soundtracks of the 80s [0:00] 2. Favorite Movie Musicals [25:59] 3. Favorite Individual Songs [51:27] 4. Wr...

Pat, Jeff and John decided to put each other through the torment of having to narrow down their favorite movie composers, scores, individual songs, etc. to a series of "top 5" lists. They made it out alive... mostly. We hope you all enjoy our very special 150th episode! 1. Intro [0:00] 2. Tobe Hooper RIP [8:18] 3. What makes a song or score "work?" [12:34] 4. Favorite composers [25:17] 5. Favorite...

Planet Spaceball is running out of air, but King Roland of Druidia has plenty of fresh air — and the Spaceballs want it. They kidnap Princess Vespa and will force Roland to give up the super secret unbreakable code to open the planetary shield... unless Lone Starr and his faithful Mog friend, Barf, can stop them!   1. Intro [0:00] 2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 35th Anniversary [11:01] 3. Spac...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. 1. Intro/Solar Eclipses [0:00] 2. What Fall 2017 movies are we looking forward to? [10:47] 3. Full Metal Jacket Intro./Background info/Trailer [21:10] 4. Full Metal Jacket discussion [27:16] 5. Favorite Stanley Kubrick movie...

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam. 1. Intro, Movie background info, trailer [0:00] 2. Good Morning Vietnam discussion [17:26] 3. Favorite scenes [30:32] 4. Favorite quotes [37:32] 5. Wrap-up [50:07] The trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJoHqmtFcQ   Behind the Scen...

When a young Bruce Wayne gets separated from his parents, he must learn to do whatever it takes in order to survive in a Japanese internment camp, whether it's stealing supplies for his friend Basie, protecting the weaker residents of the camp, or being left completely in awe of anything with wings and a propeller. Empire of the Sun was directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Christian Bale and Joh...

Most Vietnam War movies deal with the psychological torment of war and how soldiers left as idealistic young men, but came back scarred physically and mentally... and having to face a nation that was not proud of their sacrifices. Hamburger Hill tells a different story: one of a band of brothers trying to do the impossible in the midst of war, racism, and the knowledge that they may now be outcast...

Last month saw the release of a ridiculous amount of amazing new trailers at San Diego Comic Con... and some pretty exciting news coming out of Disney's D23 Expo. It's like an eating contest of movie trailers and we'll spend the next couple of hours digesting it all... Okay... that just sounds gross now. 1. Intro [0:00] 2. D23 announcements [8:13] 3. Thor Ragnarok [45:06] 4. Justice League [53:21]...

Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise... first airing in 1987 and running 7 seasons, The Next Generation was the definitive Star Trek for 80s kids. Join us as we get all dressed up for a Betazoid wedding and talk about our favorite characters, episodes, aliens and ships.   1. Intro [0:00] 2. Ranking the Star Trek: The Next Generation era films [7:51] 3. Whic...

Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise... first airing in 1987 and running 7 seasons, The Next Generation was the definitive Star Trek for 80s kids. Join us as we proceed at full impulse and talk about our favorite characters, episodes, aliens and ships. Part 2 will follow soon! 1. Intro [0:00] 2. Star Trek: The Next Generation cast/background [8:04] 3. Star...

Lace up your dancing shoes and get ready to shake your maracas... it's time for Dirty Dancing! Nobody puts our podcast in a corner... The trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcra0-0Gu4U   The complete soundtrack: http://www.what-song.com/Movies/Soundtrack/584/Dirty-Dancing