80s Flick Flashback

Buckle up for a trip in the station wagon! This week, Tim Williams is joined by Ben Carpenter to look back at the brilliant, messy, and laugh-out-loud reality of Ron Howard’s 1989 comedy-drama classic, Parenthood.
We dive deep into the chaotic world of the Buckman family tree—from mid-life anxieties and toddler pressures to teenage rebellion. We talk about th...

Grab your bad eggs and your parachuting turtles, because this week on the 80s Flick Flashback Podcast, we are heading straight to Kamp Kikakee to revisit the 1987 comedy classic, Ernest Goes to Camp!
Jim Varney took a wildly popular regional commercial character and turned him into a bona-side box office sensation. We dive deep into the history of how Disney took a ...

This week on the 80s Flick Flashback Podcast, we are pulling on the fedora, grabbing the whip, and heading back to 1981 to revisit George Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece: Raiders of the Lost Ark.
From the high-stakes history of how Indiana Jones was conceived to the incredible practical effects that still blow modern CGI out of the water, we’re unpacking wh...