Episode 84: 1982 with Chris Nashawaty
A podcast about the great movies.
Film critic and author Chris Nashawaty’s latest book is The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982, so you’ll never guess what year he joins us to talk about! Hear us wax rhapsodic about the thrills of Blade Runner, the chills of The Thing, the Catholic guilt of The Verdict, and much more..
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First Blood is available for digital rental or purchase (and here is a piece Jason wrote about the shifts of the Rambo character). The Verdict is available for digital rental or purchase as well.
The Road Warrior is streaming on Max (appropriately enough) and is available for digital rental or purchase, though we recommend WB’s 4K set of the first four films in the Mad Max franchise. (Also, here’s Jason’s recent NYT piece on continuity in the series.) Blade Runner is available for digital rental or purchase, though it too has a very good 4K set.
And The Thing is available for digital rental or purchase, and it too has a very good 4K. And here is Chris’s original article about the Blade Runner/The Thing release day for Esquire, which he mentioned as the origin of the book.
If you’d like to hear our last pass at 1982, with guest Jen Cheney, you can listen to that here.
You can follow Chris on Twitter; you can buy The Future Was Now here or here. You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.
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