The Movie Loft Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Here's a compilation of our past TMLP Christmas stories that's sure to give any Time-Life or K-tel Christmas collection a run for the money. Enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail John Candy, John Hughes and Macaulay Culkin. What more do you want from 1989?! Uncle Buck closes out the decade with attitude and heart. Soothe your Thanksgiving hangover with our melodious voices, lulling you into a false sense of security. Until you find yourself wondering if your crazy, out-of-work, bum uncle will shave your head while you sleep.  Just click play already! We’ve...

Send us Fan Mail "The years hadn't softened Moronie. He continued to murder the English language, and anyone who got in his way. "  1982 may be The Year of Living Dangerously, but 1984 is most definitely the year of living Johnny Dangerously! This movie inhabits a special place in the realms of comedy, parody classics of the '80s. And the creative license taken on curse words h...

Send us Fan Mail Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!  If you repeat the word apathetic three times, plan on a late night pep talk from your three favorite hosts. One that will likely keep you from ever uttering that word again.  Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Tim Burton, Danny Elfman and the year 1988. What more do you want?! This movie leaves one wanting for nothing on every level. If you happe...

Send us Fan Mail  It's October and there's a lot of nefarious things going on over at Mayfield Place. The Klopek's have moved next door, and to say they're anything less than completely sus is a vast understatement. The paranoia sweeps though the cul-de-sac goes like witching rumors through Salem Village.  This is the Tom Hanks that we all came to know and love during his forma...

Send us Fan Mail A latch key and a Happy Meal. I only ever had the scratch for a single cheeseburger though. Why are Gen Xers aging in a very different way than most of our ancestors?

Send us Fan Mail If you've ever dreamt of being so good at a video game that it leads to your recruitment to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada. Then get in loser! We're going back to 1984 to The Last Starfighter. Luke Skywalker....er....Alex Rogan has been playing Star Wars....er....Starfighter at the farm....er....trailer park for longer than I care to remember. Lite...

Send us Fan Mail This is pulled from an episode that will never see the light of day. There was an on-air fistfight etc. I won't bore you with the details, but it is a nice story to warm you up for the impending onslaught of anachronistic holiday stimuli.  

Send us Fan Mail Dogma, hearsay and the like.

Send us Fan Mail If you consider California penal code sections 484207,  A597, and 217, theft, kidnapping, cruelty to animals and attempted murder something to laugh about, then you agree that Dragnet is a 1987 crown jewel of comedy. Tom Hanks before TOM HANKS is always a celluloid treasure to behold. P.A.G.A.N. People Against Goodness And Normalcy. Now I'm not saying that I subscribe to this...

Send us Fan Mail Just a few of the movies we feel compelled to watch during the dog days of summer. 

Send us Fan Mail It's late August and time to visit your thieving labor day savior, Bernie. I'm a late comer to this punchline classic, but I'll be making it an annual destination in my end of summer movie rotation. I need to make up for lost time and atone for willfully avoiding this movie all these years.  The irony in Terry Kiser being lauded for his mastery of physical comedy wh...

Send us Fan Mail We're all wasted! Not really. Come to think of it, they didn't even end up using that song in the movie. They didn't use Light Up The Sky by Van Halen either. We can't help but wonder where or how the director would have deployed them. Using Cheap Trick, The Cars, Van Halen (You Really Got Me), and The Ramones tells us he knew what he was doing in these realms....

Send us Fan Mail Totally awesome video games! That's what Joysticks promises. Eugene, McDorfus and King Vidiot are running interference while we chew up the scenery of this 1983 T&A buffet.  This movie has everything you do AND don't want you in your early 80s celluloid war chest. Scott McGinnis and Corrine Bohrer round out the casting staples of any great, but forgettable 80s flick....

Send us Fan Mail These bits fell out of my back pocket when I got up from piecing together the Tales of the City episode on Malden, MA. Enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail Just Thom, Jeff and Jamie at the octagonal parquet table tonight. And here we are with another entry in the annals of life at 28 Spring Street in Malden, MA. Our matriarchal leader is jettisoning the riff-raff like a lost installment in the Death Wish franchise. First mission was to reclaim the nights for sleeping.  All five of us kids were reunited throughout the summer of 1980 i...

Send us Fan Mail Let's do some sweet ass sliding through this BMX classic called RAD. A 1986 right of passage for those who had the passion for all things wheels. Once you retired those primitive four-wheeled strap-ons, it was time to go wheels up on a skateboard or BMX bike.  In the off chance that you still had all your own teeth, you were probably allowed to experience all 3 of these cultu...

Send us Fan Mail Meet is at Bronson Canyon Halfpipe. 9:00. Joust. Be there. No, YOU be there! You shut up, you little punk. It's time to get down with Corey and Tommy, and some boxing gloves on a chain. We're talking Daggers and The Ramp Locals. And don't let Tommy catch Chrissy with any Val jerks! "That wild Indian picture happens to be stylin', you don't know what y...

Send us Fan Mail All of a sudden....Malden, MA.

Send us Fan Mail Another chapter in the Malden Chronicles is in! This time around it's just Thom with his brothers Jeff and Jamie (Jim to the unrelated) taking it out and cutting it up. These 28 Spring Street stories will now live in the annals of infamy for generations to come. Now here's a little story I've got to tell, about one bad Barbara you know so well. It started way back i...

Send us Fan Mail Get in! I'll explain on the way.   Used Cars was one in an endless loop of early '80s movies watching over us as we plopped ourselves down in front of the cathode-ray tube babysitter. And we flew in an expert for this episode. Jesus Mike is your man if you're in the market for a new beater. He's one suave....shut your mouth!  This movie was a right of passage o...

Send us Fan Mail Here we take a glancing blow at identifying some of the best albums of the 1980s....in our humble opinion of course. We're not deep diving, so don't judge, we've already handled that.  Gotta say that I personally think that Duran Duran's first album should be included. However, the inclusion of Is There Something I Should Know on the reissue we got here in the...

Send us Fan Mail It's Just Begun....that song should have been used in the Roxy battle scene according to the Beat Street dancers. As one of the all time great breakdance tracks, it would have been epic. Hollywood always wants to have its own way though, and Arthur Baker's Breakers Revenge became iconic despite that overruling. That factoid is one of many that I forgot to offload during...

Send us Fan Mail This ain't no trip to Lapland, and it's not your moms plum pudding. And it's most certainly not a hallucination brought on by Russian vodka poisoned by Chernobyl! What it is, is a Yuletide celebration to rival any stocking stuffer you're sure receive.  Let us never forget the sentiments of Frank Cross at this time of year. The most magical moment for humanity....

Send us Fan Mail Late night maneuvers and hot pursuit. What more do you need from the vault of Tony Times?