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Was 1987 the best movie year? Simon Foster & Dan Barrett intend to find out. Join them as they watch and discuss one 1987 movie each week. With 100 curated films across a pretty incredible year for movies, there's a lot of viewing that needs to get done.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWas 1987 the best movie year? Simon Foster & Dan Barrett intend to find out. Join them as they watch and discuss one 1987 movie each week. With 100 curated films across a pretty incredible year for movies, there's a lot of viewing that needs to get done.
Best Movie Year is hosted by Simon Foster and Dan Barrett. The show has published 23 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "1987's Creepshow 2" (18 May 2025, 32 minutes), "1987's The Allnighter" (20 April 2025, 39 minutes), and "1987's Extreme Prejudice" (13 April 2025, 42 minutes).
Best Movie Year publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 41 minutes across 23 episodes.
Booking probability for Best Movie Year is 18%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Best Movie Year requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Best Movie Year's contact route on record: public web form.
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Episode #24
<p>Released 1 May, 1987, Creepshow 2 is a sequel to the rather good anthology film from 1982. Unlike the first film, Creepshow 2 is neither good, nor a hit. This week our podcast hosts have differing opinions on liking...
Episode #22
<p>Released on 1 May, 1987, The Allnighter has Susanna Hoffs from The Bangles in the lead role. Written and directed by her mother, Hoffs stars alongside Dedee Pfeiffer and Joan Cusack. They're a trio of girls...
Episode #21
<p>Walter Hill film Extreme Prejudice is pretty well-forgotten by movie audiences these days, but it has a great cast of character actors and some great, bloody-as-heck shootouts. Dan Barrett and Simon Foster press play...
Episode #20
<p>Released on 10 April 1987, The Secret of My Success had Michael J Fox, riding high on the success of break-out hits like Family Ties, Back To The Future, and Teen Wolf, giving a very 1980s adult comedy a go. As...
Episode #19
<p>Released into US cinemas April 3, 1987, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol dares ask audiences: Can David Spade skateboard? The gang are all back for the fourth film, with Steve Guttenberg, Bobcat Goldthwait, and...
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<p>Released on 27 March, 1987, Blind Date was Bruce Willis' first effort as a big screen star coming off of his star-making turn in TV hit Moonlighting. It was a box office hit, bringing along Kim Basinger as his...
Episode #17
<p>Released into UK cinemas March 20, 1987, The Fourth Protocol is a British cold war thriller starring Michael Caine. He's an MI5 agent who is battling the MI5 bureaucracy as much as he is the KGB who are working on...
Episode #16
<p>Whoopi Goldberg is, as the name of the film suggests. a burglar. But what happens when a theft goes wrong and she witnesses a murder? You guessed it: high stakes comedy 80s-style.</p><p>As the Best Movie Year...
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<p>Released March 13, 1987, Evil Dead 2 occupies a very special place in the heart of horror and cult movie fans. It's ridiculous, gory, and sometimes ridiculously glory. It is the sort of movie that your VHS player was...
Episode #14
<p>Released March 6, 1987, it would be understandable if you didn't really know the movie Tin Men. Despite being widely available, it's not really a film that gets talked about a lot these days. It's a Barry Levinson...
Episode #13
<p>Released March 6, 1987, Raising Arizona was the first Coen Brothers comedy and has thrived on a cult status since it debuted. SIMON FOSTER and DAN BARRETT watch the film for their ongoing project to see if 1987 is...
Episode #12
<p>Released March 6, 1987, ANGEL HEART is a batty film. For the first hour viewers are lulled into believing they are watching a 1950s era detective noir. But then our PI Harry Angel follows the investigation to New...
Episode #11
<p>Co-host Simon Foster can usually be reliably defensive of movies that he loved as a 1980s movie fan. Dan Barrett lacks any sentimentality, so calls a spade a spade. Join us this week as Simon's faith is tested with...
Episode #10
<p>Released March 6, 1987, Lethal Weapon is the GOAT buddy cop film. Rewatching this, it turns out neither podcast hosts Simon Foster or Dan Barrett were too old for this sh!t. Hang out with the guys as they pore over...
Episode #9
<p>Released Feb 27, 1987, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors taught an entire generation to love and laugh... at teenagers being brutalised in life and in their dreams. </p> <p>This week on Best Movie Year Dan...
Episode #8
<p>An entire generation of movie fans, upon hearing that Sylvester Stallone was going to star in an arm wrestling competition action film, braced themselves for what could have been the greatest motion picture event of...
Episode #7
<p>Released 13 January, 1987, Mannequin was a party film released for the Valentine's Day audiences. This story about a man falling in love with an Egyptian spirit goddess-turned storefront mannequin was supposed to...
Episode #6
<p>Michael J Fox is the bad boy rocker in Paul Schrader's 1987 melodrama. But plot twist, he's nowhere near as bad as his older sister rock bad girl. So much drama. And here to go through this half-baked nonsense is the...
Episode #6
<p>Released on 30 January, Radio Days is a nostalgic look back at a pre-WWII Rockaway Beach family and the way their relationships were formed by their relationship with radio.</p><p>This sort of film isn't really made...
Episode #4
<p>Released January 30, 1987, Outrageous Fortune was a smash hit at the box office. A then-rare female buddy comedy, the film had audiences howling with laughter. So, why in 2024 does it barely raise a chuckle? And why...
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