FOOTLOOSE Explains Everything Going on in America Right Now: ’80s Movies: A Guide to What’s Wrong with Your Parents Podcast

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Footloose isn’t just a story about a group of kids fighting to have a prom. It’s about: a suicidal girl suffering from depression and no one is noticing all the red flags she’s waving, a community grieving over the loss of their loved ones and grappling to prevent another tragedy, youth fighting “The Man,” religious…

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Do Two OVERBOARD Make a Right? ’80s Movies: A Guide to What’s Wrong with Your Parents podcast

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With the reboot of Overboard, mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara and 17-year-old Riley Roberts explore the original 1987 Goldie Hawn-Kurt Russell rom-com treasure, evaluate if it holds up today, and wonder why no one called out all the white slavery and stuff. The duo also review the new Anna Faris-Eugenio Derbez gender reversal remake and evaluate…

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All Was Right for the Women of THE RIGHT STUFF

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“Do not eat the meat!†Veronica Cartwright says that while filming the huge Houston barbeque scene in The Right Stuff, a booming voice shouted over and over again with a reminder to not eat the steak served on all of the plates. Indeed, in the film, plates and plates of food are shown, and Dennis…

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Bill & Ted’s Make Most Triumphant Return to “Face the Music”

Time-traveling dudes are righteous again! Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have signed on to star in Bill & Ted Face the Music, the third film in the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure franchise. The new film signifies a reunion of the franchise creators and writers, Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, who wrote the script for Face the…

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