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S4E32: Raiders Region 3v14: Outside/Making Sense (opens the original)
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This week’s lineup of films has a couple of films that didn’t have much of a presence in the lives of our hosts, Keith & Joe. However, we brought in experts to help us out!In one corner, we have 3-seed The Outsiders, a film that launched a dozen careers, but that is set in the early 60s.In the other corner, we have a concert movie of an iconic 80s band: Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads. This is tough because concert films don’t follow the same rules of regular feature films. This film is widel
S4E31: Raiders Region 6v11(Ghost/Bloodsters) (opens the original)
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This week we have an iconic 80s comedy franchise against an iconic 80s action franchise! In one corner: Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman’s 1984 supernatural comedy in which three disgraced parapsychology professors start a ghost-catching (“busting”) business in New York City and end up saving the world from a Sumerian demigod.In the other corner: First Blood, Ted Kotcheff’s 1982 action film in which Vietnam veteran John Rambo wanders into a small Pacific Northwest town and is run out by a sheriff who
S4E30: Raiders Region 4v13:(Eddie & the Terminators) (opens the original)
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This week, we flash back to movies that have lots of flashbacks in them. (Or flash-forwards in one case.)In one corner: The Terminator, James Cameron’s 1984 science fiction thriller in which a machine from 2029 is sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor before she can give birth to the man who will lead humanity’s resistance. In the other corner: Eddie and the Cruisers, Martin Davidson’s 1983 drama in which a TV journalist investigates the mystery of Eddie Wilson, a charismatic Jersey Shore rock
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