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Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review

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What are the The Best 1980s & 1990s Movies? Do you find yourself asking if the movies we loved while growing up were really that good? Have you caught yourself thinking, “why don’t make movi...

Episodes

20 of 522 episodes

Dirty Dancing (1987)

This week on Shat the Movies, we're spending the summer at Kellerman's with Dirty Dancing (1987), the romantic drama that turned Patrick Swa...

01:02:33Nov 6, 2026

The People Under The Stairs (1991)

It's the Spooktacular 2026 finale! Gene and Big D close out horror season with Wes Craven's 1991 social horror comedy The People Under the S...

56:19Oct 31, 2026

The Sixth Sense (1999)

This week on Shat the Movies, we're seeing dead people with The Sixth Sense (1999), the supernatural thriller that made M. Night Shyamalan a...

56:03Oct 29, 2026

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

When listener John S. commissioned the 1983 cult slasher Sleepaway Camp, Big D had zero expectations. Gene was cautiously optimistic after t...

01:01:58Oct 21, 2026

The Evil Dead II (1987)

When a filmmaker gets a second chance at the same idea and decides to just fucking lose his mind, you get Evil Dead 2. Gene and Big D contin...

59:09Oct 14, 2026

The Evil Dead (1981)

This week on Shat the Movies, we're heading into the woods with The Evil Dead (1981), where five friends discover that renting an isolated c...

59:37Oct 7, 2026

Street Trash (1987)

The 10th Annual Shat Spooktacular kicks off with a bang. People are melting. A penis is flying through the air. And somebody brought a woodw...

01:07:15Oct 2, 2026

Licence to Kill (1989)

This week on Shat the Movies, we're going rogue with Licence to Kill (1989), the Bond movie where 007 forgets about saving the world and mak...

01:12:42Sep 28, 2026

Dragonheart (1996)

Commissioned by Michael S. from the UK, "Dragonheart" promised swordplay, knights and old codes. What it delivered was a Funko Pop-headed CG...

01:01:41Sep 23, 2026

Tuff Turf (1985)

We're going back to 1985 for the teen action drama Tuff Turf—starring James Spader, Robert Downey Jr., and Kim Richards. What starts as a go...

58:45Sep 17, 2026

Kiss the Girls (1997)

This week on Shat the Movies, we're hunting a serial killer with Kiss the Girls (1997), the thriller that introduced Morgan Freeman as detec...

01:02:27Sep 12, 2026

Born In East L.A. (1987)

Cheech Marin steps out from Tommy Chong's shadow for his directorial debut, and Gene and Big D dig into whether this immigration comedy stil...

51:58Sep 3, 2026

Dave (1993)

This week on Shat the Movies, we're heading to the White House with Dave (1993), where an ordinary guy who looks exactly like the president...

58:29Aug 30, 2026

Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

This week on Shat the Movies, we're going back to school with Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), the story of a musician who takes a teaching job wh...

01:15:42Aug 18, 2026

The Power Of One (1995)

This week, Gene and Big D review The Power of One (1992), the historical drama directed by John G. Avildsen ( Rocky ) and starring Stephen D...

01:01:59Aug 9, 2026

Cars (2006)

It's episode 503 and commissioner Shane — fantasy baseball champion, Jump Rope for Heart hero, and listener since episode four — finally get...

01:02:07Jul 31, 2026

Meatballs (1979)

This week on Shat the Movies, we're heading to Camp North Star for Meatballs (1979), the summer camp comedy that helped launch Bill Murray i...

01:06:23Jul 24, 2026

The Quest (1996)

Gene and Dick hit a milestone — episode 501 — and they're celebrating by going back to the '90s with Jean-Claude Van Damme's passion project...

57:36Jul 15, 2026

Airborne (1993)

Episode 500 is here! To celebrate this milestone, the Shat Crew commemorated the occasion with a limited-edition Episode 500 Mission Patch ,...

01:08:21Jul 8, 2026

Diggstown (1992)

James Woods is a con man you desperately want to punch, Louis Gossett Jr. fights 10 men at 48 years old, and Gene somehow thought this was a...

56:22Jul 1, 2026