The Great 80s

YouTube is streaming the 1st  Ghostbusters movie for free for a whole week as a celebration of its 25th anniversary. Ghostbusters was the 1984 hit starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroid as two bumbling scientists who start a ghost cleaning … Continue reading →

Tom Cruise’s son is among the newest Wolverines to join the remake of “Red Dawn,” the 1984 action movie about a group of teenagers who form an insurgency when their town is invaded — this time by Chinese and Russian … Continue reading →

Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood’s youth impresario of the 1980s and ’90s who captured the teen and pre teen market with such favorites as “Home Alone,””The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” died Thursday, a spokeswoman said.  He was 59. … Continue reading →

As a die-hard horror fan, I feel I have the right to say that Friday the 13th has never been a particularly intellectual series.  It is has never made chronological sense, nor tried to explain how Jason mysteriously transformed from … Continue reading →

Disney is readying another launch of sci-fi adventure movie “Flight of the Navigator.” Brad Copeland is writing the remake, which is being produced by Mandeville partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. The 1986 original told the story of a 12-year-old … Continue reading →

The Best Movies You Totally Forgot About The Lost Collection   Lionsgate presents The Lost Collection eight fun theatrical films from the 1980s featuring the “best films you totally forgot about” that include Irreconcilable Differences, My Best Friend is a Vampire, … Continue reading →

The Denver Entertainment Examiner comes up with their list of the 10 best teen movies of the 80s. There’s something about my increasing anxiety at such a typical Colorado spring, in the sense of complete bipolar changes in weather that makes … Continue reading →

Moviefone has a new feature up counting down the top 40 movies of the 80s.   Harrison Ford actually stars in three of the  top four films.   Raiders of the Lost Ark is obviously one of them, and one of … Continue reading →

“Missing in Action” rediscovered for update Joining the legions of remakes of ’80s action movies is a new take on “Missing in Action,” the Chuck Norris vehicle in which he blazes his guns throughout Southeast Asia, liberating prisoners of war. … Continue reading →