112. 🤜👊🤛 Street Fighter (1994) w/ Eric Althoff

Dan & Manny welcome Emmy award winner, writer, & USC Alum, Eric Althoff to put the Jean-Claude Van Damme classic Street Fighter (1994) to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST!

This is an hour and a half of classic Nostalgia Test Podcast comedy, hot takes, & tangents. We try to figure out who Street Fighter is for, how no one sets out to make a bad movie, Raul Julia, the absence of JCVD splits, quotable lines from the movie, Eric talks about an enlightening conversation he had with Judd Nelson, and so much more! 

 

112. 🤜👊🤛 Street Fighter (1994) w/ Eric Althoff

 

 

Eric Althoff is the Emmy-winning co-writer of the documentary “The Red River Flood,” “The Town That Disappeared Overnight” and producer of the Telly-winning shorts “My Hatton” and “The Long Hair” for Media 523. 

A native of New Jersey, Eric earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Southern California and a master’s in film studies from Tiffin University.  He is currently pursuing his doctorate in media and communications at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  In addition to a paper accepted by CINEJ Cinema Journal, his writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Screen Comment, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Napa Valley Register, Washington Times, Luxe Getaways, DCist, Black Belt, Alchemical Records and elsewhere. 

Eric is an adjunct professor of writing at the Community College of Vermont and also works for the opinion desk of the Washington Post as well as as a writer for the public relations firm Promova, which is based in Florida.

As a writer for Screen Comment, he has reported from Sundance, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Ebertfest, Bentonville Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and also covered other events such as Tribeca and DOC NYC.  Eric has lectured several times at the annual conference of ACES: The Society for Editing, and moderated panels for the inaugural DC/DOX festival, held in Washington, D.C., in 2023.  As a reporter he has also attended the Kentucky Derby, the Oscars and Mardi Gras.  He has been to every U.S. state and visited every presidential library/museum.

Eric lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with his wife, Victoria. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericfalthoff/

https://muckrack.com/eric-althoff

 

 

Some Episode Notes

• Street Fighter (movie 1994)
• Street Fighter (video game 1987)
• Eric Althoff
• The Man Show (series 1999-2004)
• Hustler Magazine
• Screen Comment
• Joe Rogan
• Doug Stanhope
• Roger Ebert
• Dave Kuznicki
• The Red River Flood (movie 2021)
• Carl Weathers
• Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Pound of Flesh (movie 2015)
• Steven Seagal
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Cobra Kai (series 2018-present)
• Point Break (movie 1991)
• Point Break reboot (movie 2015)
• Road House (movie 1989)
• Road House reboot (movie 2024)
• Patrick Swayze
• Jake Gyllenhaal
• Pulp Fiction (movie 1994)
• Christopher Walken
• Last Action Heroes by Nick de Semlyen
• Sylvester Stallone
• Jackie Chan
• Bloodsport (movie 1988)
• Mortal Kombat (movie 1995)
• Mortal Kombat (movie 2021)
• Die Hard (movie 1988)
• 💥 Die Hard (1988) w/ Longtime Friend Billy D’Elia
• Steven E. de Souza
• Edward R. Pressman
• Contra (video game 1987)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (movie 1988)
• Indiana Jones (franchise)
• Spaceballs (movie 1987)
• Flash Gordon (movie 1980)
• The Adams Family (movie 1991)
• Christopher Lloyd
• Raul Julia
• Dolph Lundgren
• Mitch Hedberg
• Kylie Minogue
• Blindfold: Acts of Obsession (movie 1994)
• Death Wish 3 (movie 1985)
• The Quest (movie 1996)
• Judge Dredd (movie 1995)
• Die Hard 2 (movie 1990)
• The Flintstones (movie 1994)
• Beverly Hills Cop 3 (movie 1994)
• Thunder in Paradise (series March-November 1994)
• 📚Nostalgia 101: Nostalgia & Shared Experiences w/ Georg Csarmann
• Movie Bonerz
• Airheads (movie 1994)
• 🎸 Airheads (1994) w/ Longtime Friend Steve Herrera
• Dookie by Green Day (album 1994)
• 💚 The 30th Anniversary of Green Day's Dookie w/ Marc Jackson
• Powder (movie 1995)
• Sean Patrick Flannery
• Airborne (movie 1993)
• 🏄😎 Airborne (1993) w/ Rob McCaffery
• Jack Black
• Drew Casper
• Nostalgia Test Rocky eps playlist
• Judd Nelson

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