1987 – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

RoboCop (1987) | Paul Verhoeven

April 5, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

RoboCop is set in near-future Detroit, where the city streets are just about completely dominated by the criminal element, while the police are neither respected nor welcome; they are virtually walking targets out there. Desperate to clean up the crime-ridden community and build a gleaming new one in its place, the government officials turn to […]

Overboard (1987) | Garry Marshall

March 28, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Goldie Hawn plays the ultra-disdainful Joanna Slayton, who hires a carpenter, Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell), while stopping off for repairs in their luxury yacht off the coast of the small town of Elk Cove, Oregon, with her snobby hubby Grant (Edward Herrmann), in order to remodel her closet space for her extensive designer clothing collection. […]

Batteries Not Included (1987) | Matthew Robbins

January 18, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Real-life married couple Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy star as Frank and Faye Riley, the owners of a small diner in a dilapidated building that also houses their apartment in the slums of Manhattan. The rest of the tenants of the building are being paid off to evacuate ASAP, so that greedy land developers can take […]

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) | Chuck Russell

October 10, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The third time was certainly the charm in the Nightmare on Elm Street” series with DREAM WARRIORS, which put together a team of adept but troubled teenagers in taking on the fiercely powerful (and growing more so by the day, Freddy Krueger, who is out to kill these kids in their nightmares. Nancy Thompson (Heather […]

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) | Sidney J. Furie

August 10, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Although he had claimed to be done putting on the red cape after SUPERMAN III, Reeve is lured back to make a fourth entry with a different studio from an idea he had written himself to bring back the series to respectability. Alas, it didn’t quite work out that way in the end. Superman makes […]

G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987) | Don Jurwich

June 8, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Rounding out this trio of Hasbro toy-based films put out by Marvel/Sunbow in the mid-1980s, “GI Joe: The Movie” has the dishonorable distinction of being funneled straight to video and subsequently syndicated on television due to the lack of success for the “Transformers” and “My Little Pony” movies at the box office the year before. […]

Masters of the Universe (1987) | Gary Goddard

May 18, 2018April 17, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The Cannon Group took a bath with the failure of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE in 1987, a film that had gone over budget and well beyond schedule. The film starts off in the mythical land of Eternia, where the ruthless villain Skeletor (Frank Langella) has managed, with the help of a powerful musical cosmic key, to […]

Mannequin (1987) | Michael Gottlieb

March 30, 2018April 17, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall star in this smash hit bubblegum romance about a struggling artist who falls in love with a mannequin possessed by a lovelorn ancient Egyptian spirit who turns his life around. James Spader, Estell Getty, and Meshach Taylor have supporting roles in this quintessential 80s fantasy-romance. Does it hold up?

Innerspace (1987) | Joe Dante

November 26, 2017April 16, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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In this episode, Vince takes a look at “Innerspace” from director Joe Dante, starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, and Meg Ryan. produced by Steven Spielberg, this sci-fi based comedy riffs on “Fantastic Voyage” where an unassuming supermarket clerk is injected with the microscopic vessel containing an ace test pilot who is wanted by hi-tech thieves […]

The Princess Bride (1987) | Rob Reiner

October 22, 2017April 16, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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A sick young boy gets a visit from his grandfather, who reads the young lad one of his favorite books, ‘The Princess Bride’. The book is of a princess named Buttercup, who has a romance with her stable boy, Westley but the evil Prince Humperdinck has plans to marry the beautiful young woman so he kidnaps her, leaving […]