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The Movies of 1985

In season 1 we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the movies of 1999, reckoned by many to be the greatest year of movies of all time. This season we’re celebrating the 40th anniversary of the movies of 1985, taking the opportunity to watch moves that we missed in our youth because they were something for the oldies. Now WE’RE the old ones!

tv & film film reviews

All Episodes

53:52

S01E39 - Two Hands and Best Laid Plans

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/09/29

Jason drives a Ford through the streets of Sydney in pursuit of Craig, who has ditched his holden and dashed aboard the monorail while following Heath Ledger in "Two Hands", before Jason delivers the ultimate dad joke as the boys change gears to watch Reese Witherspoon in "Best Laid Plans". See you at the movies!Two Hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2JmLpnASv0 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145547/ Best Laid

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54:27

S01E38 - The Limey and Payback

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/09/22

It's all revenge this week as Jason and Craig follow Terence Stamp as he avenges his daughter's suspicious death in Steven Soderbergh's "The Limey" before watching Mel Gibson take on a bad guy role in the film that Margaret Pomeranz gave no stars whatsover in the controversal "Payback". See you at the movies! The

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54:06

S01E37 - Man on the Moon and Bicentennial Man

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/09/15

Craig does his best Elvis impersonation while Jason adopts his alter-ego of Tony Clifton in order to fully embody Andy Kaufman in the intriguing "Man on the Moon", after which a big dose of saccharine sentimentality arrives in the form of Robin Williams in the overlong "Bicentennial Man". See you at the movies! Man on the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCcQB-iT7LY https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125664/ Bicentennial

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01:02:59

S01E36 - Three Kings and The Mummy

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/09/08

Craig and Jason venture into the desert on a treasure hunt this week, navigating the dark satire of "Three Kings" before dodging bad CGI in the disappointing "The Mummy". See you at the movies! Three Kings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdal5c1TfmE https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120188/ The

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59:11

S01E35 - Topsy Turvy and Hurlyburly

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/09/01

Jason and Craig settle their creative disputes by deciding to record a magnificent podcast about Mike Leigh's detailed and authentic costume drama "Topsy Turvy", before moving to the Hollywood Hills to explore the seedier side of film production in the grim "Hurlyburly". See you at the movies!Topsy

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54:40

S01E34 - The Green Mile and True Crime

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/08/25

This week Craig and Jason head to death row, travelling back to Louisiana in 1935 to watch yet another performing mouse in Stephen King's "The Green Mile", before following Clint Eastwood around modern day Oakland, California in the disappointing "True Crime". See you at the movies! The Green Mile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki4haFrqSrw https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689 True

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54:20

S01E33 - 10 Things I Hate About You and Blast From...

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/08/18

Placeholder no more... Jason returns from Vietnam and immediately catches up on his movie watching so he can join Craig for a mid-week update. The fellows first delve into "10 Things I Hate About You" before emerging like newborns into the modern world of 1999 in the rip-van-winkle-esque "Blast From The Past". See you at the movies!10 Things I Hate About You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEmcEuS6xm4 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147800 Blast From The

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57:51

S01E32 - October Sky and Star Wars: Episode I - The...

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/08/11

Jason and Craig, aka "The Rocket Boys", blast into space to reminisce about the fifties in the acronymic love letter to science and engineering that is "October Sky", followed by us heartily disagreeing on the George Lucas big space movie blockbuster "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace". See you at the movies! October Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxJQgYPXjN4 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132477 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom

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55:14

S01E31 - Following and Entrapment

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/08/04

Craig starts following Jason everywhere... or is it the other way around? Only Christopher Nolan knows in "Following", his feature directorial debut. Craig then prances about as he dodges through a field of laser beams to find out more about Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery in our second former-James-Bond-art-thief-romances-an-insurance-investigator movie of the year in "Entrapment". See you at the

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59:26

S01E30 - The Sixth Sense and Stuart Little

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/07/28

Craig experiences M. Night Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" for the very first time, having remained unspoiled for the last twenty-five years! He and Jason then marvel at the big-budget "Stuart Little" featuring CGI that was well ahead of it's time, at the time. See you at the movies!The Sixth Sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXG4HTIlc1U https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404 Stuart

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01:07:40

S01E29 - American Beauty and Dogma

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/07/21

This week Jason and Craig reunite in Perth to dive into the seedy underbelly of American suburbia in the quintessential American Beauty, then become disciples of "Buddy Christ" in Kevin Smith's Dogma. See you at the movies! American

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01:02:27

S01E28 - Bulworth and Any Given Sunday

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/07/14

Craig and Jason re-unite this week and are joined by a very special guest: Drew Morrow! Tune in for an in-depth discussion of the topical political satire Bulworth and the shaky-cam fly-on-the-wall sports movie Any Given Sunday, but stay for Drew's bombshells, including the Banksy reveal... see you at the movies! Bulworth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWca7MI-RBs https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118798 Any Given

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34:31

S01E27 - Happiness and Happy, Texas

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/07/07

This week Jason goes it alone to discuss the shocking and difficult-to-watch Happiness, followed by the light-hearted rom-com Happy, Texas. Look out for the Magnolia connection, and see you at the movies!Happiness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Roh0b-J6g https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612 Happy,

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20:12

S01E26 - Run Lola Run and Runaway Bride

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/06/30

This week Craig runs away, so it's only Jason hosting a very short podcast. We begin with the exciting "Run Lola Run", which was so good that we watched it twice. We were then disappointed with the terrible "Runaway Bride"... the less said about that the better. See you at the movies!Run Lola Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT2RlajsaSQ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827 Runaway

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01:12:10

S01E25 - Magnolia and Analyze This

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/06/23

Jason is overjoyed while Craig is overwrought and languishing in despair after watching the first 2h45m of Paul Thomas Anderson's masterpiece "Magnolia", exiting stage left as amphibians descended from the heavens. He tried therapy only to be bumped off the waiting list by Robert De Niro in the light entertainment escapist antidote of "Analyze This". See you at the movies! Magnolia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnamcFv_N9Q https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175880 Analyze

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01:07:40

S01E24 - Bringing Out The Dead and A Civil Action

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/06/16

Jason and Craig drive an ambulance around the gritty nighttime streets of New York City in search of a good Nicholas Cage performance in the Martin Scorsese's "Bringing out the Dead" while John Travolta chases after them asking for a drink of water in the star-studded Erin Brokovitch-esque "A Civil Action". See you at the movies!Bringing Out The Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TMg9WlKgsU https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163988 A Civil

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01:09:07

S01E23 - Praise and Notting Hill

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/06/09

Love is in the air as Jason and Craig yack about Praise, the dismal, dour and depressingly honest Aussie love story with a fantastic soundtrack by Dirty Three, before they embark on the sugar rush that is the overly saccharine English romcom of Notting Hill. See you at the movies! Praise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Y-BPLYw6o https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147192 Notting

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01:05:30

S01E22 - The Insider and Titus

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/06/02

Join Jason and Craig this week as they delve into the world of shouty actors telephoning in their performances in the impressive The Insider before they are snatched up by the lapels and dragged into the Shakespearean tragedy that is Titus. See you at the movies! DMA's cover of Beautiful Stranger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoCIwkwH9XU The

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01:02:42

S01E21 - Gods and Monsters and Arlington Road

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/05/26

Craig returns from his sick box and bumps Sam Altman's Monster to the sidelines to join Jason to chat about probably the highlight of the year so far, bringing Gandalf and George of the Jungle together in the remarkable Gods and Monsters, before they start peering over neighbourhood fences to try to catch their neighbours doing something despicable in the twisty Arlington Road. See you at the movies!Gods and

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33:24

S01E20 - eXistenZ and Deep Blue Sea

The Movies of 1985 ·

2024/05/19

With Craig away sick with an infected bioport (and the 'rona), Jason and ChatGPT chat about the body horror shock of the prophetic eXistenZ before diving under the waves to escape from genetically engineered sharks in the weird Jurassic Park / Abyss crossover Deep Blue Sea. See you at the movies!eXistenZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgOUa91GHg https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907 Deep Blue

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