Hockey Masks, High Schools and Popcorn

Keeping with our announcement last episode, we're expanding our movie choices from not only the 80's, but also movies from the 70's and 90's as we realized a lot of the movies we grew up watching started in the 70's and go right through to the 90's.So, last week, we gave our nostalgic review and ratings of the 1978 horror classic "Halloween". We're back after watching it with our current ratings and discussion. Is this movie intelligent enough to scare today's audiences?  We'll break it down.And just because we can, we're jumping to 1990 after the break to talk about the next movie up for discussion where it follows Henry Hill and his friends working their way up through the mob hierarchy. Who doesn't love a good gangster-type movie?

We're back to have a difference of opinion over this week's current discussion of "Conan The Barbarian" (1982). We've watched it last week and now we're back to talk about it. Who's got the more realistic current rating? We'll both defend our ratings to the death!After Conan, we announce a small format change that leads us into our next movie. Over the past year, we've focused strictly on movies of the 80's. Going forward, we're going to expand to movies ranging from the 70's to the 90's as we found that there are quite a few movies that started in the 70's and had sequels that went straight into the 90's. This change also aligns us more with our upcoming plans we have been teasing about with the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema!  More details on this to come! So, with that said, we're going back to 1978 for the start of an iconic horror villain and the beginning of a series that went all the way to 2002 before finally rebooting. The tagline of this movie was "It's the night he came home".

It's another Eddie Murphy episode featuring "Trading Places" (1983)! Last week, we both gave pretty high nostalgic ratings for this 30 year old classic. But, does it hold up to our nostalgic memories? We'll go over our current review and ratings after watching it last week. We'll, then, set up next week's episode with our nostalgic discussion of one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's first break-out films (1982) prior to The Terminator.

"Tuff Turf" (1985) is up for cynical discussion after last episode's announcement of the our "Review and Win" contest winners where Jawsome took first place with her review of this movie. Check out her winning review and all the other winners and entries at movie-blogger.com! Although we haven't seen this movie before, we gave it a chance based on her review and now we're back to talk about it. Was this the most over-looked movie of the decade or does it just deserve to be over-looked? We'll break it down. Our next movie we're revisiting from 1983 has two Saturday Night Live alumni starring in a comedy where one goes from rags to riches and the other from riches to rags.

We're taking a break from our regularly scheduled episodes to bring you another installment of a Totally Tubular Edition featuring 80's Rumors! Remember growing up and hearing a rumor about a star or maybe an anonymous person where something shocking happened but without the internet available like today, you really had no good way of verifying the rumor? Some rumors were pretty shocking and spread from coast to coast and maybe even globally just by word of mouth. We have a great time going over our personal favorites we remember growing up in the 80's. We'll be back next week with our continuation of our regular episodes and our current review of "Tuff Turf" (1985) which was the winning entry in our "Review and Win" contest with movie-blogger.com! We'll see if the movie lives up to the winning review by Jawsome which can be read here!

The winners of our "Review and Win" contest are announced in this episode! We had some really great entries and it was fun reading all the reviews! Thanks to all who participated and a big thank you goes to Graham over at movie-blogger.com for partnering up and hosting the contest on his movie review site. But first, we'll give our current review and ratings of "Risky Business" (1983). We went to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema @ One Loudoun in Ashburn, Virginia to watch this during their Summer of '83 movie event occurring all summer long. Stay tuned for more info on some upcoming events we have planned with the Alamo! We can't even tease here what the next movie is going to be because it ties into the winning entry of the contest so tune in to find out what movie we're going to do next!

Chhh Chhh Chhh... Haa Haa Haa.... Can you believe it's already that time again? Yup, episode 52 (13x4) features the fourth installment of the Friday the 13th movie series "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter" (1984). The previous installment viewings have left us a little apprehensive about how enjoyable this one was going to be. But we've muddled through it and lived to talk about it. Relive the horror of it all with us. Things get a little bit Risky with our next movie from 1983 starring a young Tom Cruise and his memorable pink shirt and tighty-whities dancing to that Old Time Rock and Roll. We'll go down memory lane with this sex-laden flick and give our nostalgic review and ratings before next week's show. You only have until Tuesday, June 4th to enter the "Review and Win" contest where Hockey Masks, High Schools and Popcorn have teamed up with movie-blogger.com to let have a chance at winning one of three great prizes. Top prize is a $100 pre-paid Visa Card. How nice is that?! It will be nice for someone. Might as well be you! Goto movie-blogger.com and click on the contest banner on the main page to learn how to enter. But, you don't have much time left! Last, but certainly not least, we have some exciting news to tease about some upcoming events that will result in new video content in addition to our weekly audio podcast, so listen for some of the details!

We are right smack-dab in the middle of our "Review and Win" contest where you can still enter to win the top prize of a $100 pre-paid Visa card! We'll go over the details again in this episode for those that may have missed it. You have until June 4th to enter, which is right around the corner. Don't miss your chance! Scotty, beam us up! We're back with our current ratings and discussion after last week's nostalgic review of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982). A lot of people will probably agree that this movie is the best of the series starring the original Star Trek cast members, but does it hold up after all these years? Listen as we point out how our future looks a lot like our past. Deep, maaaan. Also, we'll come to a final decision of Khan's chest... real or not. Tune in! Then, it's that time again... 13 episodes later and we're here to review the next installment (from 1984) of the most iconic horror movie series of all time. Is this truly the last one in the series as the title alludes to? Find out!

Welcome to the 50th episode of our podcast! It's been a year since we started and it's been a great adventure. For this special episode, we finally announce the details for the "Review and Win" Contest where we team up with movie-blogger.com and you could win 1 of 3 top prizes in which the top prize is a $100 pre-paid Visa card! Tune in to learn how to play. Also we bring our kids, Scarlett (Mike's daughter) and Jake (Shawn's son), on for the opening and let them give their review and ratings for this week's movie "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" (1989) as we all just watched it together right before we recorded this episode. It's wacky fun for the first few minutes as we try to promote conversations with them. We'll wrap up the show with our nostalgic memories of next week's film from 1982 where we are going to go where no one has gone before and where a man wants his revenge on a certain captain. We'll rate it and talk about it some, then go and watch it and come back next week with our current ratings and review. Don't forget the contest! It's open through June 4th! Enjoy! Amazon.com Widgets

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! We just conjured up this week's episode featuring "Beetlejuice" (1988)! Michael Keaton is frightfully funny in this comedy about the afterlife. We're back after watching it and giving our two cents and our current ratings after last week's nostalgic discussion. Does this movie stand a ghost of a chance of holding up after all these years or is Michael Keaton the only ghost with the most in this flick? Once we give up the ghost... we'll move on to our next movie in preparation for our special 50th episode next week. The world looks a lot bigger and introduces unexpected dangers when you're only a quarter of an inch tall in this comedy/adventure from 1989. Finally, we'll give some hints to what's happening on our 50th episode, including some info about our special guests and of our 50th episode contest we've been hinting about. It's almost here! Amazon.com Widgets

Yippee Ki-yay! This week, it's our in-depth conversation of "Die Hard" (1988). Last week, we gave our nostalgic ratings before watching it again. Now, we're back to talk about it. Stupid security guards, stupid bad guys, and an English actor playing a German terrorist pretending to be an average American white-collar are some of the conversations we get into. Lots more that you don't want to miss. We just hope that after the break you don't say his name three times in a row from our next movie. We'd not want conjure up this dude until next week's current review. For this week, we'll give our nostalgic ratings and talk about some memories of this classic from 1988. Amazon.com Widgets

"This is our podcast. There are many like it, but this one is ours." Okay, not as powerful or compelling as the Rifleman's Creed from the movie "Full Metal Jacket" (1987), but you get the idea. We gave our nostalgic ratings last week, then watched it and now we're back to have our usual banter about the movie. Although we both gave this high ratings, it's due mostly for the boot camp portion of the movie. We'll get into this and other facets of the film. After the break, we'll go from a war in a country to a war in a building in next week's movie from 1988 that starred a TV actor gone full-blown action movie star and kicked off a bunch of sequels. We'll give our nostalgic reviews in preparation for next week.

Save Ferris! We have a good discussion over "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986) after some fairly high nostalgic ratings last week. Mike and Shawn share two different opinions but agree it's a classic to enjoy. We'll break it down and talk about if Ferris is truly a righteous dude or is he just being a douche. Next week's movie from 1987 is nostalgically discussed after Ferris. We go back to Vietnam and go through basic training with the beloved Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. Make a name for your rifle and listen in as we get ready to discuss this movie in full next week.

Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) takes some time-off as a Detroit Police Detective to follow clues leading him to Beverly Hills, CA to investigate a friend's murder in this week's discussion of "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984). This is Eddie Murphy at his best in this comedy-laden film that gets to show off his acting chops as well as allowing him to show off his signature Eddie Murphy style. Then, we plan to ♪ shake it up baby now ♪ in the next movie from 1986 up for nostalgic discussion when someone else decides to take a day off. But in this case, it's just to skip school and have an adventurous day with his girlfriend and best friend.

Coinciding with the movie release of "Evil Dead" this past weekend, we are going back to 1981 to talk about the original, classic "The Evil Dead" by legendary writer/director Sam Raimi. Shawn gave it a very high nostalgic rating last week and Mike stayed neutral. Will the passage of time ruin the movie? We've watched it again and are back to possess your soul (and give our current ratings)! We'll get into our nostalgic discussions of the next movie from 1984 coming up next week about a Detroit cop investigating a murder in Beverly Hills. Sounds like a serious drama, but it's all comedy, especially when it's star is Eddie Murphy.