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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 48: It’s Awesome, Totally Awesome!
It’s time for another look back at a classic teen movie and this time I’ve pulled out all the stops for one of the quintessential 1980s teen flicks, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I’m joined by Todd...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 50: The Weirdest Year of Your Life
It’s the 50th episode of Pop Culture Affidavit! For this special episode, I take a look back twenty years to the year I graduated from high school. Along the way, I look at how senior year of high...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 65: Cherry-Flavored Pez
Thirty years ago, Rob Reiner directed the seminal coming-of-age film Stand By Me. To celebrate its anniversary, Michael Bailey and I take a look at the film as well as the Stephen King novella “The...
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It Follows
If Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby set the tone for the “psychological horror” film back in the late 1960s, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows is the culmination of nearly 50 years of psychological...
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I Spent My Adolescence Wandering the Teen Movie Desert
Shannen Doherty as Heather Duke in the film that killed ’80s teen movies. She’d later play the iconic Brenda Walsh on the ’90s teen soap Beverly Hills 90210. I’m in the middle of prepping for my next...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 107: School’s Out!
High School is over and for the students who went to Degrassi High, that means parties, college, jobs, and sex with Tessa Campinelli. That’s right, it’s time to look back at the wildest summer in...
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Because Deep Down, We All Want Football Glory and a Slow Clap
So I’m watching Lucas last night … I guess I have to justify why I’m watching a Corey Haim movie from 1986? It had been in my Netflix DVD queue and therefore part of my “uncollecting” list. Oh, and I...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 133: Some Kind of Wonderful
After four years and six films, John Hughes left the teen movie subgenre behind in 1987, but not before producing one last film, Some Kind of Wonderful. Join me as I take a look at the film, its...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 136: Teen TV Movies from 1988
In 1988, NBC produced three television movies starring a gaggle of teenage stars from some of the most popular sitcoms of the day. And for this episode, I sit down and talk about them. So strap in for...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 144: Where Were You in ’62?
It’s the first of three episodes that look at the nostalgia subgenre of films, and I’m starting with the granddaddy of all of them, 1973’s American Graffiti. Directed by George Lucas, this is a...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 145: Alright, Alright, Alright
My look at nostalgia-themed movies continues! This time around, Amanda joins me to sit down and talk about a formative movie for the two of us: Dazed and Confused, the 1993 Richard Linklater film that...
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