There are a few decades in film history that have been as screwed nuts as the 1980s, but to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple of someone's who were there for it the first time around.

Drew McLean and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade, one month at a time. The look at what worked then, what endoers now, and how it felt to be there when it all went down. Turn back the calendar with us. It's the 80s all over. I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel. It's the 80s all over. The did Algeria to kick the month off, meanwhile in Japan, the very first Mario Brothers game was released. Friday night video was made its premiere on NBC, and as if in response, there were light flashes recorded on Jupiter's Moon, I Am. Does that seem like a random assortment of facts? Well, that's not how this random is the films.

We're about to discuss in July of 1983.

Hi, everybody. I'm Drew McQueenie and welcome to 80s all over as always I'm joined by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. Hi everybody, I'm Scott Weinberg and I'm joined by my co-h- Sorry, I'm just making you. After all these episodes, I think it's fair that we pay a little bit of credit

to the person who writes all your uh... your intro pieces that include all the

topical news bits

uh... david mammoth I think it's fair that we pay a little bit of credit to the person who writes all your intro pieces that include all the topical news bits. David Mammott writes those for us. And Kudos man. Very sure. No. And before we begin this wonderful episode full of crazy stuff from July of 1983. great Margot Kitter has passed away at the age of 69 and Drew and I were in a minute, just a few minutes talking about how much we loved her. What do you love most about Margot Kitter's lowest lane? Well, as low as lane, the thing I like is that what made her low as lane interesting was the sense that she really was what a reporter in 1979 might look like in New York as opposed to sort of a 40s homage or anything. She modernized that movie as much as any other element of it, I think, and grounded it and made it very real. Growing up in love with Superman and Superman 2, she very often spars with him verbally and she never seems like his damsel or his female sidekick. She's a very cool reporter, very tough. I love her in those movies. I love her in Brian De Palmes' Sisters. She's terrific in Sisters. And if you read easy writers and raging bulls, you get a sense of kind of how she fit into that whole 70s scene and and she and her roommate Jennifer Salt. They were just at that flashpoint of all the filmmakers that were interested in what we love and she was part of that that moment. You know there's a lot of people who I think contributed to the energy and just sort of the scene that don't necessarily get credit and I think one of the great things that book does is kind of show how it was that alchemy of all those people in that place at that time. And I think they all contributed.

And I really do think Margot Kitter will be missed by a lot of people.

And she has generations of fans.

Rest in peace, Margot Kitter.

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Let's move on to July of 1983. Well first first Scott. Say oops, look, side to head, say oops, side to head. Say oops. We pulled the boner. Oh wait, did I say that somebody was dead who isn't?

No, no, that's not the one.

I think I'd think that about Dan Hadaya and I apologize again. I think somebody pointed out that there might be the third or fourth time we've killed Dan Hadaya on the show too. There is something about him that insists on the fact that no, he passed away at some point. But we love the fact that he's still here and still acting. Now the boner we pulled this week was we skipped the whole movie.

It's an easy movie to skip because it barely got released.

And that seems to be a theme running through 1983. There's a lot of these movies that had one release and one market, and one of those was a piece of now, Vanna animation called Rock, Street and all.

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