Hi-Concept High School – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

My Science Project (1985) | Jonathan R. Betuel

February 1, 2018April 16, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens and Dennis Hopper appear in this low-budget sci-fi/comedy from 1985, MY SCIENCE PROJECT, where teens find an alien contraption of seemingly unlimited power that opens a portal from which people and things from Earth’s past and future pour into their high school. Now the teens need to pull the plug on […]

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) | Francis Ford Coppola

January 27, 2018April 16, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Francis Ford Coppola directs this fluffy but endearing film that asks the age-old question, “what if we could do it all over again?” An Oscar-nominated performance from Kathleen Turner bolsters this whimsical romantic comedy-drama with a time-travel twist, with a quirky role for Nicolas Cage as her no-good husband.

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) | Stephen Herek

January 20, 2018April 16, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The breakthrough performance for Keanu Reeves, along with co-star Alex Winter, in this fun time-traveling romp through history, as two California teens pick up verious historical figures in their phone booth through time to pass an oral presentation that will secure Earth’s future — a future in which Bill & Ted are revered as saviors! […]