Show: Movie of the Year
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Movie of the Year: 1982 Victor/Victoria Is Victor/Victoria dragging us for it leaving off of the bracket for 1982’s Movie of the Year? Starring Julie Andrews playing a woman pretending to be a man who is performing as a woman, and made in the early 1980’s, you might think Victor/Victoria runs the risk of being a…
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Movie of the Year: 1982 The Verdict Is The Verdict judging us for leaving off of the bracket for 1982’s Movie of the Year? The Verdict is like the New Yorker of movies. It is made for adults, by adults. And it doesn’t try to be everything to everyone by bringing in broad humor or action bombast.…
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Movie of the Year: 1982 Tootsie Is Tootsie too cringey to be 1982’s Movie of the Year? Tootsie has every reason to be one of the most uncomfortable movies we have covered. It’s about crossdressing and gender and it is forty years old. However, the movie manages to handle sensitive subject matter with a lot…
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Movie of the Year: 1982 The Thing Will The Thing prove itself evolved enough to be 1982’s Movie of the Year? The Thing makes us confront the fact that if we had the ability to look like, or be like, anybody it would only be a matter of time before we would choose to become…
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Movie of the Year: 1982 Mixtape Listen to us construct the definitive 1982 mixtape! Some years we do this mixtape and it’s really more accurately a playlist, or in its own time it would have been burned on to a CD. But not in 1982. In 1982 you would be setting those songs down on…
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Movie of the Year: 1982 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Who will win the ultimate battle between Kirk, Khan, and the Taste Buds, on an all-new Movie of the Year! On the first episode of Movie of the Year to focus on a Star Trek property (and let’s be honest…most likely the last), the Taste Buds are tackling…
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Movie of the Year: 1982 State of the Franchise Let’s check in on the state of the franchise in 1982! Film franchises weren’t as big in 1982 as they are now, but they did exist. By 1982 we were already pretty deep into Friday the 13th, Halloween, and the Rocky franchises. Heck, the Greaseaverse was nearly launched in…
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Movie of the Year: 1982 Poltergeist Can Poltergeist scare its way into being 1982’s Movie of the Year? Nothing encapsulates the 1980s mindset quite like the horror buying a huge house only to have it turn out that there is something completely wrong with it. Or maybe it’s about the fundamental horror of realizing that…
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Movie of the Year: 1982 Night Shift Should Night Shift have been included in our 1982 bracket? Night Shift imagines a New York where morgues are always empty, and thus their employees are free to run other “small businesses” out of them. We’ve got Henry Winkler; we’ve got Shelley Long; we’ve got Michael Keaton, and…
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Movie of the Year: 1982 Fitzcarraldo Does Fitzcarraldo have what it takes to get over the hump and into the heights of 1982’s Movie of the Year? With apologies to Kate Bush, running up that hill is nothing compared to what this movie brings to audiences. Running up a hill? Sure, that sounds very tiring…
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