June 2019 – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Road Games (1981) | Richard Franklin

June 30, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

Road Games (aka Roadgames) is a Hitchcockian suspense-thriller set primarily out on the open roads running through the Australian outback. Jamie Lee Curtis is Pamela, who, along with independent truck driver Pat Quid (Stacy Keach) and his pet dingo Boswell, tries to get to the bottom of a story which might connect a series of killings which have surfaced […]

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) | George Miller & George Ogilvie

June 22, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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In this entry of the Mad Max series, set a few years after the events of The Road Warrior, Max’s nomadic travels lead him to Bartertown, which, as the name implies, is the methane-fueled hub where anyone can go to exchange something they have for something they need. The town is overseen by Aunty (Tina Turner), though […]

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) | George Miller

June 16, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Max’s wanderings through the now lawless Wasteland formerly known as Australia take him to a fortified oil refinery where there’s plenty of precious fuel, but a vicious gang of murdering marauders, led by a hockey-masked and muscle-bound leader named Lord Humungus, wants to get their hands on it, giving the residents an ultimatum of imminent […]

Mad Max (1979) | George Miller

June 8, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Set in the near future, Mel Gibson stars as the titular Max, one of the best police officers working for the MFP fighting against the increasingly hostile lands, full of marauding car and biker gangs who have no regard for life, or for laws, and especially not for law officers. One such gang of bikers, […]

Escape from New York (1981) | John Carpenter

June 2, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Escape from New York is set in a future 1997, during a time when, after the crime rate has skyrocketed out of control, the island of Manhattan has been turned into an ultra-maximum security prison where the worst of the worst violent criminals are put to live in a state of walled-in anarchy. A potential […]