Best Movie Year

Simon Foster and Dan Barrett

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Best Movie Year

Was 1987 the best movie year? Simon Foster & Dan Barrett intend to find out. Join them as they watch and discuss one 1987 movie each week. With 100 curated films across a pretty incredible year for movies, there's a lot of viewing that needs to get done.

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1987's Some Kind of Wonderful

Co-host Simon Foster can usually be reliably defensive of movies that he loved as a 1980s movie fan. Dan Barrett lacks any sentimentality, so calls a spade a spade. Join us this week as Simon's faith is tested with the John Hughes-written teenage fantasy romcom starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Lea Thompson.

33 min
24/12/2024

1987's Lethal Weapon

Released March 6, 1987, Lethal Weapon is the GOAT buddy cop film. Rewatching this, it turns out neither podcast hosts Simon Foster or Dan Barrett were too old for this sh!t. Hang out with the guys as they pore over Lethal Weapon and discuss the good and the couple of moments that left them thinking: 'huh?'

1h 1m
19/12/2024

1987's A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors

Released Feb 27, 1987, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors taught an entire generation to love and laugh... at teenagers being brutalised in life and in their dreams. This week on Best Movie Year Dan and Simon check out the third film in the franchise. Does the film add weight to the idea that 1987 was the best movie year?

37 min
09/12/2024

1987's Over The Top

An entire generation of movie fans, upon hearing that Sylvester Stallone was going to star in an arm wrestling competition action film, braced themselves for what could have been the greatest motion picture event of their lives. But that movie was Over The Top and within just 3 years of it's release, these same youngsters had embraced grunge, cynicism, and irony. A coincidence? This week on the Best Movie Year podcast Dan Barrett and Simon Foster try to make heads or tails of what they pressed play on. It is all for the scientific experiment of determining whether 1987 really is the best movie year.

36 min
08/12/2024

1987's Mannequin

Released 13 January, 1987, Mannequin was a party film released for the Valentine's Day audiences. This story about a man falling in love with an Egyptian spirit goddess-turned storefront mannequin was supposed to stir romance in us all - The lovers, the dreamers, and me. This week on the podcast, Dan Barrett and Simon Foster watched the crowd favourite Mannequin. Did this film deserve to become a smash hit? Or is it just as plastic fantastic as the female love interest in this?

48 min
29/11/2024

1987's Light of Day

Michael J Fox is the bad boy rocker in Paul Schrader's 1987 melodrama. But plot twist, he's nowhere near as bad as his older sister rock bad girl. So much drama. And here to go through this half-baked nonsense is the bad boys of podcasting Dan Barrett and Simon Foster.

40 min
22/11/2024

1987's Radio Days

Released on 30 January, Radio Days is a nostalgic look back at a pre-WWII Rockaway Beach family and the way their relationships were formed by their relationship with radio. This sort of film isn't really made anymore, so as Dan and Simon take a look at 100 films from 1987, they grapple with their own nostalgia while wondering who even listens to radio anymore.

34 min
22/11/2024

1987's Outrageous Fortune

Released January 30, 1987, Outrageous Fortune was a smash hit at the box office. A then-rare female buddy comedy, the film had audiences howling with laughter. So, why in 2024 does it barely raise a chuckle? And why is it so hard to find even a movie trailer online for this pretty huge 80s comedy?

39 min
01/11/2024

1987's The Stepfather

Released on Jan 23, The Stepfather is a surprisingly really good and creepy horror starring Terry O'Quinn in an early breakout role. He got typecast after giving a performance that was creepy as heck. Dan and Simon discuss the film and how maybe the creepiest thing about the movie isn't the family-murdering titular character.

43 min
26/10/2024

1987's The Kindred

Released at the start of January 1987, The Kindred is a pretty dire creature feature that is one part creepy X-Filesian science gone wrong monster flick, one part teen cabin in the woods nonsense. But, does it make for an entertaining film? Does it add to the case that 1987 is the best movie year?

38 min
20/10/2024

1987's Withnail & I

In our quest to determine whether 1987 is the best year for movies, Dan and Simon watched the first film released in 1987 as they launch this brand new podcast. They have another 99 films to watch before deciding whether 1987 was the GOAT. But they begin with Withnail & I. A cult classic that found a very loyal audience of university students on VHS in the decade that followed, it remains a favourite for many to this day.

52 min

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Was 1987 the best movie year? Simon Foster & Dan Barrett intend to find out. Join them as they watch and discuss one 1987 movie each week. With 100 curated films across a pretty incredible year for movies, there's a lot of viewing that needs to get done.

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Simon Foster and Dan Barrett
Years Active

2024 - 2025
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11
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Explicit
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