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30something Movie Podcast

John W. Reid

One movie each week. 30 years in the making.

tv & film film history

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Episode #115: "The Kids Return" | Lego Batman Movie...

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2017/02/25

Kids. All Lego Movie podcasts start with kids. So I got mine to sit down with me and talk about what they loved about the Lego Batman Movie.

01:08:18

Episode #114: "Life's A Beach" | Summer School (1987)

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2017/02/22

Life's a beach... and then you get stuck in summer school. The long, boring hours in the classroom. Freddy Shoop didn't want to be there... he didn't ask to be there... but he has to, because he's the teacher. In order to save his teaching job for the next school year, Mr. Shoop must take his group of misfit students from zeroes to passing in just a few weeks.

51:41

Episode #113: "Snap Out of It!" | Moonstruck (1987)

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2017/02/15

Loretta Castorini is a bookkeeper living in New York who’s just gotten engaged to a man she doesn’t love. When she calls on his estranged brother to invite him to the wedding, she finds more than she bargained for and begins to fall for him. In the midst of all this, everyone around her seems to be struggling with their own search for love.

01:10:16

Episode #112: "It's Not Us... It's Roy" | Overboard...

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2017/02/08

Joanna is a wealthy woman who lives aboard her yacht with her husband Grant. When she wants some work done on the boat, she hires carpenter Dean Proffitt. After an argument, she refuses to pay him. Later when she falls overboard and suffers amnesia from a bump on the head, Dean tricks her into coming back home with him and pretends she is the mother of his four children.

01:17:50

Episode #111: "You Down With OTT?" | Over The Top (1987)

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2017/02/01

The world meets nobody halfway, least of all Lincoln Hawk. He's a hard-working truck driver who's driven to bond with his estranged son and does so through truck driving and arm wrestling. It's a rocky start, but we won't leave you with a cliffhanger. He must go all the way to the arm wrestling championship in Vegas to keep his son. It's over the top. And that's the title of the movie too.

01:45:27

Episode #110: "Your Feet's Too Big" | Harry and the...

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2017/01/25

Let's say you hit an animal in the woods. Do you lash it to the roof of the car and bring it home? Well, if you enjoy roadkill cuisine... sure! But if you're the Henderson family returning home from a camping trip, you'll either come to regret that decision... or you might just have your life changed by it.

57:26

Episode #109: "Crapping You Negative" | Raising...

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2017/01/19

When biology and the prejudices of others conspire to keep H.I. and Ed childless, what do they do? Steal a baby, of course. Now they're embroiled in a scheme that involves Huggies, the Federal B.I., The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse, blackmailing best friends, Dr. Spock, and two convicts who released themselves on their own recognizance. It must be Raising Arizona!

01:10:32

Episode #108: "Goodnight, Sweetheart" | Three Men and...

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2017/01/11

Our first delivery of 1987 is Three Men and a Baby. Three bachelors have their lives turned upside down when a new woman appears. At first they try to change her... but it's their lives that end up transformed.

58:08

Episode #107: "There Are Two O's in Goose" | Top Gun...

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2016/12/30

The best of the best come together to make themselves better... and when they do, they sit around and talk about Top Gun. This podcast is unpredictable. And dangerous.

37:49

Episode #106: "Boom, Shake Shake the Room" | The...

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2016/12/21

Paul Stephens is a brilliant high school student who decides to build an atomic bomb in order to teach a lesson to weapons researcher Dr. John Mathewson, who has hidden his top secret lab in the middle of Ithaca, New York. Paul takes his show on the road to the National Science Fair, but is nearly intercepted by the military. Can Paul unmask the secret government facility in time, or will it blow up in his face?

01:47:11

Episode #105: "One With the Force" | Rogue One: A...

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2016/12/21

It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.

01:32:00

Episode #104: "War Is Hell" | Platoon (1986)

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2016/12/14

"Elias was a crusader. Now, I got no fight with any man who does what he's told, but when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. And I ain't gonna allow that in any of you. Not one." Platoon.

01:06:41

Episode #103: "Lend Me Your Ears" | Blue Velvet (1986)

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2016/12/06

She might've worn blue velvet, but that didn't really change how we felt about this movie. We came away from this one not hating or loving David Lynch... just realizing that he might not be our cup of tea. John and Pat talk about deconstructing American life, threnodies, and Laura Dern.

50:20

Episode #102: "No One Expects the French Inquisition"...

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2016/11/30

Sherlock Holm... I mean, William of Baskerville and his young pupil are called to an Italian abbey in 1327 to take part in a debate over the poverty of the church. While there they become embroiled in a murder mystery that threatens the lives and faith of everyone involved.

43:15

Episode #101: "Podcasters Against Drunk Baking" | Raw...

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2016/11/23

Arnold Schwarzenegger — the most inconspicuous person on the planet — is thrust into an undercover operation where he must blend in to the mob and move his way up into the organization in order to take it down and get revenge for Ralphie's dad.

02:23:25

Episode #100: The Best Holiday Movies

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2016/11/16

For our 100th episode spectacular the whole gang sat down to talk about our favorite movies from the 80s and all-time. From Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to Christmas Vacation to It's A Wonderful Life, join us as we journey through our favorite holiday movies, favorite scenes, and favorite songs... and we share a little of our favorite holiday memories in the process.

01:11:47

Episode #99: "P90-Ax" | Cobra (1986)

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2016/11/09

The New World Order club is trying to get their new exercise program off the ground, but rogue cop, Marion "Cobra" Cobretti, wants to stop them. Can the fitness guru and insane serial killer known as the Night Slasher fulfill his life-long dream of survival of the fittest? Grab a slice of pizza and a pair of scissors before you sit down to join us for this one!

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Episode #98: "Gigobros" | Razzies of 1986

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2016/11/02

What do you get when you cross an anthropomorphized duck, a radio personality with a nervous breakdown, Prince, and Madonna? You get the worst movies of 1986!

31:19

Episode #97: "Anti-Coital Garden Hoses" | This House...

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2016/10/31

What can one say about this little TV movie gem from 1981? Anti-coital garden hoses, traumatizing blood showers, hot water burn rag lady...? All of those and more as John re-examines This House Possessed!

01:08:03

Episode #96: "Brundlefly" | The Fly (1986)

30something Movie Podcast ·

2016/10/27

During this heated presidential election, maybe the best choice is not one of the two major parties, but rather an insect politician. If you're interested in finding out more about insect politics, the plasma pool, and the Brundle Museum of Natural History... you've come to the right place. And we promise... we won't hurt you if you stay.

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