love triangle – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Saturn 3 (1980) | Stanley Donen

October 30, 2020October 29, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

In the future, Earth is a polluted wasteland. People have resorted to drugs and promiscuity while relying on off-world food production systems for salvation. Research chemists Major Adam (Kirk Douglas), his young assistant/lover Alex (Farrah Fawcett), and their dog Sally are the sole residents of the subterranean Experimental Food Research Station on Saturn’s third moon, […]

Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) | Sam Firstenberg

January 4, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Somewhere underneath the never-ending music and dance numbers is a story about keeping Shabba-Doo’s community center for inner city youth (named “Miracles”) from falling into the hands of a slimy developer who wants to bulldoze it to erect a shopping center in the middle of the community. This would leave the kids nowhere else to […]

Ladyhawke (1985) | Richard Donner

October 30, 2017April 16, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Set in France during the Middle Ages, Philippe ‘The Mouse’ Gaston, a convicted pickpocket escapes from a castle dungeon only to get involved in a bitter feud between the powerful, scheming Bishop of Aquila and two lovers, a former captain of the guard named Etienne of Navarre and a lady named Isabeau d’Anjou, who were […]