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Movie of the Year: 1985 – The Goonies
Movie of the Year: 1985 The Goonies The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s VHS babysitter, The Goonies! Perhaps no other movie of the 1980s captured what it was to be, in that time or an other, a Goonie. Goony? I don’t know how to do just one of them. That actually kind of works with the…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – State of the Franchise
Movie of the Year: 1985 State of the Franchise The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s franchises! 1985 had its fair share of franchises, not all of them great: looking at you, Rambo. Others had been the peak of cinema and yet had fallen to new lows: that’s you, Police Academy. But no matter how good or bad the…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – Come And See
Movie of the Year: 1985 Come And See The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s answer to typical Hollywood war movies, Come and See! Come And See is probably not the first movie you think of when you think of 1985. That’s an obvious major strike against it for winning Movie of the Year. But what if it…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – Breakfast Club
Movie of the Year: 1985 Breakfast Club The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s most teen movie, The Breakfast Club! The Breakfast Club isn’t just some movie about being a teen; it is the movie about being a teen. In 1985 every teenager could identify with the characters in this movie, and that should have changed–this movie should…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – Brazil
Movie of the Year: 1985 Brazil The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s most bizarre movie, Brazil! Brazil is a quirky little movie that didn’t do great in its own time but has risen to cult status. Might it be more than a little film that punches above its weight? We would dare to say that it…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – Mixtape
Movie of the Year: 1985 Mix Tape The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s music by putting together a mix tape of 85’s greatest jams. The Taste Buds are joined by their lady-buds, the improbable Unnatural 20s who were like negative six when these songs came out. But they know about Huey Lewis, and they for…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – Back to the Future
Movie of the Year: 1985 Back to the Future The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s biggest movie, Back to the Future! Back to the Future is probably the most important movie in the history of this podcast. It raised us and taught us how to be. Mike straight up calls this movie Dad and it’s…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – After Hours
Movie of the Year: 1985 After Hours The Taste Buds discuss Martin Scorsese’s 1985 forgotten classic After Hours! After Hours, what is that even? Can this movie possibly be the movie of the year if no one has ever seen it and few have even heard of it? Well, it’s directed by a little guy…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – The Battle Begins
Movie of the Year: 1985 The Battle Begins Its the beginning of a new era for Movie of the Year. Brand new host Ryan has taken the reins and is leading the boys into the brave new frontier of 1985, a year in which Back to the Future, Goonies, and Mishisma all came out. That’s right, Mishima came…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 2019 – Finale Part Two
Movie of the Year: 2019 Finale Part Two The end of the end of 2019. Well, it is finally here. All the guesswork and pontificating will be over after this episode because we are going from the final four all the way to 2019’s Movie of the Year. Plus, we have all the really important…
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