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80s Movie Guide

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

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Film by film, mother-teen daughter movie critics Tara McNamara and Riley Roberts examine what makes movies from the 1980s so amazing and so, so wrong.

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XANADU is one of the 1980s biggest flops, but it is also rather magnificent. It's a cult classic with passionate fans who love the music, the style, the dance numbers, and the cheesy special effects. Tara McNamara and Riley Roberts... more

Casual Sex? is a time capsule of women's difficulties in navigating the ever-changing sexual landscape of the 1980s. Screenwriter Wendy Goldman explains how the film- the first studio film to mention AIDS and acknowledge its... more

Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara (Gen X) and Riley Roberts (Gen Z) look at SCROOGED on its 30th Anniversary, and reflect how it's so '80s, how it's held up, and why Frank Cross got dumped unfairly. Read all the behind the... more

"Christmas in the Movies" author Jeremy Arnold joins us to give the definitive answer of whether or not DIE HARD is a Christmas movie and WHY. We also look at what makes the Bruce Willis classic so '80s and examine how it holds... more

Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara and Riley Roberts, 17, identify why THE KARATE KID has stood the test of time, why Gen X'ers identify with it so much, and what it's like in high school today (the answer is eye-opening).... more

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