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The podcast that holds your fond childhood memories up to the harsh light of today.
Season finale and conclusion of our 2-part Star Wars smackdown video spectacular! We move on to 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back" as H.P. Men...
Part 1 of our 2-part Old v. Gold Season 2 finale spectacular takes on a movie that's as old and yet as omnipresent as The Force: "Star Wars....
We hide behind our space couches and revisit the horror of 1979's "Alien," the (only) Ridley Scott movie about space predators (worth talkin...
In Robert Zemeckis' 1997 film "Contact," a child raised in a single-tragedy household grows up to be Jodie Foster and a scientist listening...
This week, we hit the 1988 quasi-musical "Earth Girls Are Easy," starring the Blum! And also Geena Davis, and pre-"In Living Color" Jim Carr...
The year is 1994. A new science-fiction series with groundbreaking computer graphics and not much budget at all debuts in syndication. It ca...
Out of the TV static left when 1982 signed off comes Steven Speilberg's-- um, Tobe Hooper's "Poltergeist," which among its many frights and...
The 1988 Japanese animation classic "Akira" blows up our screen - and, of course, Tokyo - bringing us, yes, plenty of yelling, but also plen...
An initial discussion of the darkness of Santa Claus leads naturally to a January podcast about 1986's "Big Trouble in Little China," a comi...
In 1985, Val Kilmer was a "Real Genius," which it turns out is one rank below "Top Gun," at least chronologically. In what some (well, one)...
It's interstellar attackers vs. the world - read U!S!A! - in Roland Emmerich's 1996 epic-wannabe "Independence Day." Can Jeff Goldblum work...
Say "yes, cyborg officer" to 1987's "RoboCop." whose near-future science fiction trades in such preposterous notions as a crippled Detroit,...
From the mind of Joel Schumacher springs 1987's "The Lost Boys," about a California beach town infested with gays-- um, vampires. Will the d...
This Season 2 sample of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is "The Emissary," who is someone in this episode, but that's not important. What's...
A theme park filled with actual flesh-eating dinosaurs: what could go wrong? That's the question asked and answered by Steven Spielberg's 19...
It's back to high school yet again for the proto-"Mean Girls": 1988's "Heathers," which brings us a brightly colored yet pitch-black tale of...
For "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," we're joined by some folks who know their way around the Alpha Quadrant: Captain Matt, Lt. Commander...
Would you like to swing on a star? Or would you rather recall the 1991 Bruce Willis showcase "Hudson Hawk"? This difficult-to-describe antic...
For Spooky Week, we've picked the spooky 1984 comedy "Ghostbusters," full of spooky slime monsters and spooky demon dogs and spooky sexual h...
Remember that movie about sinking oceancraft that James Cameron made? No, not that one - "The Abyss," the 1989 deep-seacret movie with Ed Ha...
Season 2 of Old v. Gold moves, with Spockly logic, to Season 2 of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." First up: "Q Who," which, besides servin...
Season 2 premiere! Ah, the '80s. When Americans were obsessed with skiing contests, French foreign-exchange students, Howard Cosell-imitatin...
Old v. Gold's second season begins Tuesday, Oct. 7. New to the podcast, or need a refresher course on the concept? Enjoy this preview, which...
The Old v. gold season finale! When you think of "Chariots of Fire," one thing comes to mind: guys running down a gloomy British beach in lo...
A bunch of us black-palms get together and set our analytical lasers to beautify and/or brutally dissect"Logan's Run," the iconic 1976 sci-f...
Two kids with what ought to be world-conquering powers and conveniently sporadic vague memories wind up on the run from a large number of di...
Someone remembered "Trainspotting," Danny Boyle's acclaimed tale of heroin-dependent and -adjacent young men in Scotland as a kind of, um, f...
Using the Charm of Making, we weave a mist ... in time! ... through which we watchExcalibur, John Boorman's 1981 telling of the legend of Ki...
Old v. Gold goes on location, huddling in a shaky house among the redwoods of Northern California to view the pilot episode of "Twin Peaks,"...
Kirk, Spock, and the rest warped to the big screen in 1979's "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." This first movie in the franchise isn't a five...
Joe Dante's "Explorers" presents, in their first theatrical-film roles, River Phoenix and Ethan Hawke - plus a third kid you haven't heard w...
There's no movie or show to view this time! Instead, we gathered a few of our podcasters past and future to not just bring you updates on th...
Our two-part look at holiday classics wraps up with the stop-motion antics of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", an epic tale of non-conformi...
Part 1 of our two-part look at classic Yuletide TV is a double feature: the decidedly downbeat, jazzy attack on commercial Xmas that is "A C...
Save Ferris ... from the Middle Ages! Somewhere, sometime in Europe, Matthew Broderick is drawn into the cursed romance of Michelle Pfeiffer...
In 1984's "The Last Starfighter," a bored young denizen of a strangely idyllic trailer park longs for something more - and gets it when his...
it's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, in which weirdly popular Matthew Broderick manipulates his friends, the mean ol' dean of students, a lot of a...
The NeverEnding Story brings us, all the way from Germany, weird capitalization and a truly interactive children's book. Follow the story wi...
1984's Red Dawn pits a gaggle of teenagers (and apparent Hugh Jackman fans) against the entire Soviet army, plus one Cuban guy, who have inv...
We return to the Enterprise, cruising at full impulse toward the end of Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. "Conspiracy" darkens the...
In the well-regarded 1988 action hit "Die Hard," Bruce Willis single-handedly withstands the assault on an L.A. office building by Alan Rick...
Our nostalgia beams to the small screen for the second episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "The Naked Now", which itself hearkened...
"Gremlins" brings us Joe Dante and Chris Columbus's 1984 Christmas vision of the terror inflicted on a strangely isolated patch of Americana...
Like no straight teenage boy ever, the hero of "Fright Night" forgoes available girl sex to investigate whether a vampire lives next door.
The Goonies 'R' good enough for the first episode of Old v. Gold — or 'R' they?
A short introduction to our new podcast Old v. Gold, plus a few tasty clips from upcoming episodes.