Meet Your Host

Nathan Blackwell

Nathan Blackwell is a Phoenix-based filmmaker who began his career like many of his counter-parts, as a weird eleven year-old kid running around with a camera. In 1998 he directed his first feature film, Forever Midnight, and in 2007 he created his production company Squishy Studios, with which he produced numerous short films and the award winning, two season web series Voyage Trekkers. He’s won over 40 filmmaking awards, including six ADDYs for directing commercial and branded content, was named by the New Times as one of Phoenix’s 100 Creatives, and recently won Filmmaker of the Year at the Phoenix Film Festival for his feature film “The Last Movie Ever Made.”

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

It’s the podcast where a filmmaker (Nathan Blackwell of Squishy Studios), a comedian (Krissy Lenz of National Comedy Theatre) and a comic actor (Ryan Gaumont of Showmont) go on a cross country adventure… metaphorically… in a Rube-Goldberg machine of delig

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The Wizard (1989)

WELCOME TO The MOST EXCELLENT 80s MOVIE PODCAST! It’s the podcast where a filmmaker (Nathan Blackwell- Squishy Studios), a comedian (Krissy Lenz – NCT) , an actor (Erica Connell – The Manson Tapes) and an author (Craig Michael Curtis – Voyage Trekkers) st

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The Last Starfighter (1984)

It’s the podcast where a filmmaker and a comedian get invited on an adventure into a world of big foreheads, nonsense words, greedy old hucksters, space tantrums with fabulous scepters, reluctant and I mean REALLY reluctant warriors and of course, the 80s

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Chances Are (1989)

It’s the podcast where a filmmaker and a comedian fall in love with the movies of the 80s… then get reincarnated and fall in love with them all over again as adults. Or… maybe fall in love with their daughters? Either way we get to look back on these 80s

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Rocky IV (1985)

It’s the podcast where a filmmaker Nathan Blackwell, a comedian Krissy Lenz and an author Craig Michael Curtis montage their way through the 80s movies we love while dragging a metaphorical log through the Russian snow the entire time… Also while leaving

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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

It’s the podcast where a filmmaker, a comedian and an actor/brother brave their way through the jungle of the 80s moves we love, hate, hate to love and love to hate… and you better be careful, or we might pop an arrow right into your head and make EVERY

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Overboard (1987)

It’s the podcast that has it all! Kidnapping! Gaslighting! Stockholm syndrome! Miniature Golf! AND a filmmaker and a comedian ready to dive in to the 80s movies we love! This is Overboard from 1987 on the Most Excellent 80s!

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Crocodile Dundee (1986)

It’s the epsidode where a filmmaker and a comedian make their way through the jungle of the 80s movies we love, even when the crocodile of toxic masculinity pops right up and rears its ugly head… That’s right, we watched Crocodile Dundee from 1986 on th

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The Burbs (1989)

It’s the podcast where a filmmaker and a comedian make their way through the mysterious suburban neighborhood of 80s movies we love. And, as always, we wonder what the heck Corey Feldman is doing there. That’s right, we watched The Burbs from 1989 on the

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Young Guns (1988)

It’s the podcast where a filmmaker and two comedians are here to regulate your enjoyment of revisiting the 80s movies we love… and we’re damn good too. But you can’t be any geek off the street, you gotta be handy with the sass and earn your keep… This i

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