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Permanent Vacation (1980) Jim Jarmusch's Raw Debut and the Birth of Indie Cool.
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'Permanent Vacation' (1980): Jim Jarmusch’s Raw Debut and the Birth of Indie Cool
Before Stranger Than Paradise made him a defining voice of American independent cinema, Jim Jarmusch wandered through a nearly abandoned Manhattan with a $12,000 budget, a 16mm camera, and absolutely ...
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November 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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The Company of Wolves A Freudian Fairy Tale in the Woods Told By Angela Lansbury and Directed by Neil Jordan
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'The Company of Wolves' (1984): A Freudian Fairy Tale in the Dark Woods
Neil Jordan and Angela Carter transformed Little Red Riding Hood into a surreal coming-of-age nightmare, creating one of the strangest, most visually inventive fantasy-horror films of the 1980s.
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November 8, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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Oklahoma Oil Money, Ruth Gordon, Mud Wrestling, Laura Branigan, Eddie Deezen, Boxer Ken Norton, a pot smoking rabbit and Annie Ample. How did Mugsy's Girls ever become so forgotten???
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‘Mugsy’s Girls’ (1985): Ruth Gordon, Laura Branigan, and Oklahoma’s $3.2 Million Hollywood Gamble
How a 26-year-old filmmaker, a group of Oklahoma investors, and some very ambitious merchandising plans brought a sorority mud-wrestling comedy to the movies.
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November 7, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Ever heard of Music Zaps? We'd never heard of it and was quite a fun and ambitious rabbit hole.
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Movies of the 80s Sidequest - Music Zaps: The Forgotten Theatrical Music Videos of the 1980s
Music Motions’ Music Zaps brought David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Rick Springfield, Twisted Sister, and other music stars to movie theaters in the 1980s. Discover the forgotten story of 35mm music videos.
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November 8, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Fraternity Vacation 1985 - The Ultimate Mid-80s Spring Break Sex Comedy Time Capsule
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‘Fraternity Vacation’ (1985): The Ultimate Mid-’80s Spring-Break Sex Comedy Time Capsule
Stephen Geoffreys, Tim Robbins, a Palm Springs paradise, and a whole lot of bad behavior. Revisiting a forgotten sex comedy from the era when cable television made sure we never forgot them.
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November 6, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Cat's Eye Stephen King's Feline Horror Anthology
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'Cat’s Eye' (1985): Stephen King’s Feline Anthology and Wilmington’s Hollywood East Moment
Before the Stephen King adaptation boom started running out of steam, Lewis Teague brought together James Woods, Drew Barrymore, and a very resourceful stray cat for one of the decade’s most unusual h...
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November 5, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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The Three Identical Strangers Who Appeared Along Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan.
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The Three Identical Strangers Who Appeared Alongside Madonna in ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’
A chance encounter on a New York City sidewalk put Robert Shafran, Eddy Galland, and David Kellman in a 1984 Madonna movie. Years later, their story became the subject of an extraordinary documentary.
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November 5, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Forgotten Movies of the 80s: Evilspeak (1982) - When the 80s Put Satan on an Apple II
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Forgotten Movies of the 80s - ‘Evilspeak’ (1982): When the 80s Put Satan on an Apple II
A bullied military-school cadet, a Satanic manuscript, an early personal computer, and a pack of demonic pigs. Welcome to one of the strangest horror movies of the early 1980s.
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November 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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The Hollywood Machine: The Prowler and the Business of Independent Film Distribution in the early 1980s.
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The Hollywood Machine: ‘The Prowler’ and the Business of Independent Film Distribution in the Early 80s
How did The Prowler (1981) navigate the crowded slasher marketplace? Explore its independent distribution, the rejected Avco Embassy offer, and its regional newspaper advertising campaign.
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November 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Little Miss Marker 1980 Walter, a New Kid, and The Fourth Time Around for a Runyon Classic
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'Little Miss Marker' (1980): Walter Matthau, a New Kid, and the Fourth Time Around for a Runyon Classic
Before Shirley Temple became a Hollywood sensation, a little girl was left as collateral for a gambling debt. Nearly half a century later, Walter Matthau took his turn as Sorrowful Jones in an affecti...
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November 4, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Alamo Bay (1985): Louis Malle's Uncomfortable Portrait of American Racism.
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‘Alamo Bay’ (1985): Louis Malle’s Uncomfortable Portrait of American Racism
Ed Harris gives a racist Vietnam veteran a complicated humanity in Louis Malle’s overlooked 1985 drama. TheVietnamese immigrant at the center of the story never receives the same consideration.
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November 3, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Police Academy (1984) Steve Guttenberg Was a Live Action Bugs Bunny.
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‘Police Academy’ (1984): Steve Guttenberg Was a Live-Action Bugs Bunny
Growing up in the 1980s, Cary Mahoney was more than a wisecracking police recruit. He was a lovable underdog who could puncture authority, outsmart the bad guys, and make a kid feel in on the gag.
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November 2, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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On this date in 1984 National Lampoon's Movie Madness was released and a piece of 1980s lost media was born.
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The Lost Fourth Segment of a National Lampoon Film: Henry Jaglom’s Vanishing Act
A look into the forgotten fourth segment of a 1980s National Lampoon anthology, directed by Henry Jaglom, and why it disappeared before audiences ever saw it.
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November 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame
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November 1, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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Q the Winged Serpent (1982) Larry Cohen, Samuel Z. Arkoff and the Art of Making a Monster Movie.
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‘Q: The Winged Serpent’ (1982): Larry Cohen, Samuel Z. Arkoff, and the Art of Making a Monster Movie
How a disastrous Hollywood firing, a forgotten screenplay, and a little old-fashioned hustling gave Larry Cohen one of the most delightfully ridiculous monster movies of the 1980s.
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November 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Movies of the 80s - Is American Werewolf in London the Most Overrated 80s Horror 'Classic?'
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Movies of the 80s - Is AmericanWerewolf in London the Most Overrated 80s Horror ‘Classic’
Rick Baker created one of the great werewolf transformations in movie history. We’re just not sure there was much of a movie around it.
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October 31, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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The Franchise Files: Halloween 2 - So Now What?
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The Franchise Files: ‘Halloween II’: So Now What?
The moment Michael Myers stopped being a boogeyman and became a franchise
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October 30, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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On this date in 1983, Hadley's Rebellion was released in theaters to very little fanfare.
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The Movie Hollywood Forgot: The Strange Story of Hadley’s Rebellion
What is Hadley's Rebellion and what happened to it? A Movies of the 80s investigation.
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October 28, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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Happy the Shooting is Over... In More Ways than One: The Dangerous Making of Defiance (1980)
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“Happy the Shooting Is Over”—in More Ways Than One: The Dangerous Making of ‘Defiance’ (1980)
Before Defiance became a forgotten AIP crime picture, John Flynn’s production found itself caught between Hollywood’s hunger for authenticity and the real dangers of New York’s Lower East Side.
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October 29, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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The Godsend (1980) The Evil Child Horror Movie That Refused to Scream.
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The Godsend (1980): The Evil Child Horror Movie That Refused to Scream
A forgotten British horror film about a mysterious child, a collapsing family, and the kind of evil that doesn’t need to explain itself.
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October 29, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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Movies of the 80s Sidequests: The Slugger's Wife, Bernie Carbo and the Pitcher Who Got Away
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Movies of the 80s Sidequests: ‘The Slugger’s Wife’ (1985), Bernie Carbo, and the Pitcher Who Got Away
How a former major-league pitcher auditioning for a Hollywood movie caught the eye of Braves manager Joe Torre and wound up with an unexpected second chance at baseball.
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October 28, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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Forgotten Movies of the 80s: 'Death Ship' (1980) From Bloodstar to Bilge.
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October 26, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Beards, Strikes, and Sacred Scrolls: The Troubled Making of King David (1985)
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Beards, Strikes, and Sacred Scrolls: The Troubled Making of ‘King David’ (1985)
Richard Gere, a biblical epic, an extras’ revolt, and a production that battled the elements in pursuit of a more human Old Testament.
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October 27, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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Just Tell Me What You Want, The Forgotten 1980 Movie That was Too Cynical for Hollywood.
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Just Tell Me What You Want: The Forgotten 1980 Movie That Was Too Cynical for Hollywood
Sidney Lumet turned sex, money, corporate power and a deeply dysfunctional relationship into one of the strangest comedies of the early 1980s—and audiences wanted nothing to do with it.
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October 24, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Sean Connery, Manufactured Crises, and the Moral Collapse of the Attention Economy. Wrong is RIght was ahead of its time, even as it wasn't a masterpiece.
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Nothing Happens Unless It Happens on Television - ‘Wrong Is Right’ (1982): Sean Connery, manufactured crises, and the moral collapse of the attention economy
The overlooked Richard Brooks satire saw something more disturbing than a future of terrorist attacks and televised wars. It saw a world in which the people controlling the cameras no longer needed to
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October 25, 2026 at 12:51 PM