'80s Movie News

This Friday, Aug. 16, there’s a curiosity in the New Film Releases section — Caligula: The Ultimate Cut. The porn epic is as curious now as it was in 1980, ...

Before there was G, PG and R, and definitely before PG-13, there was The Production Code. Willam H. Hays was hired by the studios collectively to create and administer a ...

What girl of the 1970s and '80 (and beyond) didn’t try the exercise “We must, we must, we must increase our bust!� Judy Blume’s novel, “Are You There God? It’s ...

https://youtu.be/XN8fzpWi2ns In Confess, Fletch, Annie Mumolo elevates a character trope into a character for the ages. One-upping the Gladys Kravitz and Stanley Roper nosy neighbors of yore, Mumolo's "Eve" is ...

If you're a Fletch fan (and who isn't?), the release of Confess, Fletch, the third film in the Fletch series, is both exciting and vexing. Fans want a new movie, ...

When anyone postulates, "Who ya gonna call?" most everyone smiles, knowing the 3-syllable answer. Thirty-seven years have passed since the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man pounded the streets of New York, but ...

https://youtu.be/VIvZwnOFrIs If you're reading this, you likely share the same opinion as David Henrie and Selena Gomez: what the world needs now is an '80s teen comedy. There's something buoyantly ...

Humorously showing the emotional pain of teenagers aching for true love amid the social expectations of high school, Sixteen Candles turned a teen sex comedy into an pop cultural phenomenon that was watched by every '80s kid. ...

St. Elmo's Fire was a response to the teen films of the 1980s, examining what happens after college.  Joel Schumacher crafted an authentic and progressive story about the emotional lives and professional ...

Before John Hughes, a movie couldn't be made that was just about who was going to take a girl to prom. But with a high school divided into the haves and ...

"Wolverines!" The call creates a Pavlovian swell of patriotic pride in '80s teens. John Milius' Red Dawn is one of the few teen action films of the '80s -- and definitely the ...

When you're looking to explain the 1980s, look to Risky Business. Teens were attracted to the Paul Brickman comedy by the music video featuring Tom Cruise dancing in his underpants. Running constantly on ...