Mo Shapiro & Max Sanders discuss all things 80's movies
Kat Stratford is beautiful, smart and quite abrasive to most of her fellow teens, meaning that she doesn't attract many boys. Unfortunately for her younger sister, Bianca, house rules say that she can't date until Kat has a boyfriend, so strings are pulled to set the dour damsel up for a romance. Soon Kat crosses paths with handsome new arrival Patrick Verona. Kat may let her guard down enough to fall for the effortlessly charming Patrick.
In honor of the American Lung Association Fight For Air Climb, today’s episode of Buzzn The Tower takes a step by step journey through some of the most memorable stair scenes in 80s and 90s movies. From triumphant training montages to suspenseful climbs and unforgettable cinematic moments, we’re breaking down the staircases that ended up stealing the scene. Lace up your shoes, catch your breath, and join us as we climb through some of the most iconic movie moments one flight at a time.
A streetwise police officer is recruited into a secret government agency that monitors and polices extraterrestrials living on Earth. Partnered with a veteran agent, he must stop a hostile alien disguised as a human who is searching for a powerful galaxy that could destroy Earth. Along the way, he learns that the truth about aliens is hidden in plain sight and that the Men in Black keep the world safe by keeping it unaware.
Schoolteacher and single mother Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) lives an average suburban life -- until she begins having strange memories of unexplained violence and discovers that she has physical skills that she never imagined. Hiring private detective Mitch Hennessey (Samuel L. Jackson) to probe into her past, Samantha discovers that she's a well-trained government assassin who went missing after suffering a bout of amnesia and that her former handlers want her back in their employ.
Based on the popular Tom Clancy novel, this suspenseful movie tracks Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) as he abandons his orders and heads for the east coast of the United States. Equipped with innovative stealth technology, Ramius' submarine, "Red October," is virtually invisible. However, when an American sub briefly detects the Russians' presence, CIA agent Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) sets out to determine Ramius' motives, fearing he may launch an attack on the U.S.
A year after his heroics in L.A., detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) is mixed up in another terrorist plot, this time at Washington Dulles International Airport, where he is waiting for his wife (Bonnie Bedelia). That same night, South American politico and drug profiteer Ramon Esperanza (Franco Nero) is arriving in U.S. custody. McClane takes action when a treasonous ex-colonel (William Sadler) seizes control of the airport, threatening to crash every inbound flight unless Esperanza is freed.
Jurassic Park (1993) follows paleontologists Alan Grant & Ellie Sattler, mathematician Ian Malcolm, and John Hammond's grandchildren, Lex & Tim, as they tour a revolutionary dinosaur theme park on Isla Nublar, only for a villainous employee to sabotage security, unleashing dinosaurs like the T-Rex and Velociraptors, forcing the group to survive and escape the island as chaos theory proves true.
After the melting of the polar ice caps, most of the globe is underwater. Some humans have survived, and even fewer still, notably the Mariner (Kevin Costner), have adapted to the ocean by developing gills. A loner by nature, the Mariner reluctantly befriends Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and her young companion, Enola (Tina Majorino), as they escape from a hostile artificial island. Soon the sinister Smokers are pursuing them in the belief that Enola holds the key to finding the mythical Dryland.
Predator: Badlands follows a young, exiled Predator named Dek who crash-lands on the hostile planet Genna. There, he forms an unlikely alliance with a damaged Weyland-Yutani android named Thia. Together, they embark on a dangerous journey across the planet, battling its formidable creatures and other predators, to find an "ultimate adversary" and restore Dek's honor.
Summer. 1997. Four good-looking teens hit someone with their car and decide the best move is to dump the body and never talk about it again. A year later, surprise — someone knows what they did last summer. Cue the fisherman with a hook, a lot of screaming, and enough 90s angst to power a Dawson’s Creek marathon. This is I Know What You Did Last Summer — where bad decisions, shiny hair, and slickers collide.
A spoiled, cheerleading Valley Girl named Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson) discovers she’s destined to hunt vampires. Trained by her weary mentor Merrick (Donald Sutherland), she reluctantly takes up the fight against the ancient vampire Lothos (Rutger Hauer) and his minions. Mixing comedy, camp, and action, the movie follows Buffy’s journey from shallow teen to unlikely hero, laying the groundwork for the darker, more acclaimed TV series that followed.