Harry Dean Stanton – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Alien (1979) | Ridley Scott

August 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

The story begins in the year 2122, onboard the commercial towing vessel, the Nostromo. Its mostly blue-collar crew, five men and two women, are awakened prematurely while still in deep space from their cryogenic slumber en route back to Earth. The reason for their early disturbance has to do with the company’s policy to investigate […]

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 […]