experiment – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Real Genius (1985) | Martha Coolidge

November 27, 2020November 26, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

Real Genius centers on several students at Pac Tech, an institution esteemed for its technological breakthroughs. They’re currently working on a project to build a high-powered laser. The project is led by an egotistical professor and TV science show host named Jerry Hathaway (William Atherton), who has been employed by a clandestine group within the […]

Akira (1988) | Katsuhiro Otomo

May 26, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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In this breakthrough anime masterwork, Akira starts out in 1988, much of Tokyo is destroyed by a mysterious that spreads like a dome of energy over the city. The rest of the film is set in the year 2019, as we peek into the post-apocalyptic megalopolis that has been rebuilt as Neo-Tokyo, where the government is […]

Dreamscape (1984) | Joseph Ruben

September 20, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Dreamscape stars Dennis Quaid as a psychic enlisted into a top-secret government experiment that puts him into the nightmares of another person in order to cure them. However, when the President of the United States becomes the subject, he finds himself embroiled in a plot to assassinate the world leader in his sleep. Kate Capshaw, […]

Swamp Thing (1982) | Wes Craven

June 23, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Wes Craven wrote and directed this adaptation of the DC Comics superhero, once a scientist trying to help humanity, who turns superhuman when he is doused with his own experimental formula to use plants to help humans while in the nearby Louisiana swamp. Adrienne Barbeau stars as the government agent sent to oversee the lab, […]

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 […]

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) | Joe Johnston

November 19, 2017April 16, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Rick Moranis stars as lovable dad and ambitious college professor Wayne Szalinski, who has recently become something of a laughing stock to his peers when he dares to introduce a potential way to drastically reduce the size of everyday objects. His own experiments have proved futile, but a fluke accident causes the reduction machine to […]