The Best 80s & 90s Movie Podcast
This week, Shat The Movies puts on the sunglasses and uncovers John Carpenter’s They Live, the cult classic that turns Reagan-era paranoia into a full-blown alien conspiracy. Starring “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as a drifter who discovers the world is secretly controlled by skull-faced elites, this 1988 sci-fi satire pulls no...
This week on Shat the Movies, we’re asking the important question: what if Bigfoot was just… a really hairy houseguest? Harry and the Hendersons (1987) brings us a giant, gentle creature, a suburban family, and way more emotional damage than anyone signed up for. Gene and Big D break down...
Shat The Movies heads to New York City for Quick Change, the 1990 crime comedy starring Bill Murray as a master planner who pulls off the perfect bank robbery… only to discover escaping Manhattan is the real heist. Directed by Murray and Howard Franklin, the film pairs Murray’s signature dry...
This week, Shat The Movies tackles one of the most bafflingly successful high-concept comedies of the ’80s: Twins, the movie that asked, “What if Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito were genetically engineered brothers?” and somehow convinced the world to buy a ticket. Gene and Big D revisit Ivan Reitman’s unlikely...
This week, Shat The Movies heads behind the Iron Curtain—or at least a Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker version of it—with Top Secret!, the absurdist spy spoof that introduced the world to Val Kilmer as a legitimately charismatic movie star who could also sing, dance, and commit fully to absolute nonsense. Long before Top...
This week, Shat The Movies parks the surveillance van and cracks open Stakeout, the 1987 buddy-cop hit that proved Richard Dreyfuss could be both wildly neurotic and a believable romantic lead. Gene and Big D revisit this Reagan-era crowd-pleaser to figure out how a movie about police spying on a...
This week, Shat The Movies heads into the Pacific Northwest wilderness with Shoot to Kill, the late-’80s thriller that blends serial killers, mountain survival, and peak “competent adult movie” energy. Starring Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, and Kirstie Alley, this 1988 sleeper feels like the kind of grown-up studio thriller Hollywood...
This week, Shat The Movies heads to rural Iowa for Field of Dreams, the baseball fantasy that turns whispered voices, cornfields and unresolved daddy issues into cinematic magic. This episode is especially meaningful as it marks the first episode edited by our first-ever intern, Elias, officially ushering in a new era...
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