Bonus! - Tango & Cash

The over-the-top fun of The 80s didn’t surrender to the angsty thoughtfulness of The 90s without a fight. Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell teamed-up to fight crime, make us laugh, and prove that yes, sometimes cops do go to prison - and unfairly too! Listen to Alex and Julio take on the much maligned last great action movie: TANGO & CASH! Why can’t critics appreciate Sly playing against type? Why can’t they appreciate Russell boldly dressing in drag before the world was ready for it? And how can anyone resent an early appearance from the best Lois Lane ever? Also: Jack Palance kisses a rat!

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Bonus! - 200 Cigarettes

MTV was way ahead of their time when they cast a bunch of future Oscar nominees, future Oscar winners and all around future superstars to travel back in time and celebrate New Year's Eve in The 80s. Critics and audiences dismissed them as a bunch of nobodies who didn't even know how to party - now we can appreciate them as complex individuals who share the same issues we people from the 2000s suffer from. Listen to Alex and Julio untangle the multiple storylines that make up 200 CIGARETTES and marvel at how much we all have in common with young Martha Plimpton and young Kate Hudson, how Jay Mohr is always a weasel no matter the decade and how Ben Affleck became a man after this movie flopped.

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