Posts Tagged ‘80s movie podcast’
Podcast: RISKY BUSINESS Declared Women are Products and Money is all that Matters.
When you’re looking to explain the 1980s, look to Risky Business. Teens were attracted to the Paul Brickman comedy by the music video featuring Tom Cruise dancing in his underpants. Running constantly on MTV, teens watched and rewatched the “Old Time Rock n’ Roll” music video and its resonant clips of a line of beautiful prostitutes walking into Joel’s house,…
Read MorePodcast: 40 years later, THE BLUE LAGOON is even more unsettling.
The summer of 1980, movie critics and audiences were aghast that teen icon Brooke Shields was once again being depicted as the ultimate object of sexual desire in The Blue Lagoon. Despite the criticism, director Randal Kleiser’s follow up to Grease was a box office smash. The young model-actress’ prepubescent virginal sexuality was a constant…
Read MorePodcast: The misogynistic influence of PORKY’S goes all the way to the Supreme Court.
’80s Movies: A Guide to What’s Wrong with Your Parents podcasters Riley Roberts and Tara McNamara look at the influence of PORKY’S on Generation X.
Read MorePODCAST: JUST ONE OF THE GUYS is a Dude’s Story Disguised as a Chick Flick
Podcaster Riley Roberts gives the Gen Z take on JUST ONE OF THE GUYS (1985).
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