The Great 80s

Love “Dirty Dancing?” Thank Michael Douglas. The “Wall Street” star’s bump-and-grind with Jill Clayburgh was cut from an obscure ’80s flick, leading the way for the cult-classic dance movie to be made, according to creator Eleanor Bergstein. More than two … Continue reading →

Genre fans are nothing if not specific, boiling films down to their bare-bones essence for purposes of classification. Only they could invent a term such as “Canuxploitation” for horror films of the 1970s and ’80s made in Canada. Cross-pollination with … Continue reading →

Let’s take a journey back in time, back before YouTube, The OC, gross-out comedy, Judd Apatow and High School Musicals. It’s the mid-1980s, post- modern irony has yet to be invented and one man is creating the movies and soundtrack … Continue reading →

  As a child of the ’80s (born in 1976), I take for granted that my tastes were formed during an extended low point — if not the outright nadir — in American culture. Nowhere is that clear more than … Continue reading →

Paramount is getting “Clueless,” hanging with the “Mean Girls” and looking “Pretty in Pink” for its first slate of videogames. The studio is co-publishing casual games based on those three pics from its library for release later this year. It’s … Continue reading →

  After Charlie’s Angels, The Dukes of Hazzard, and The Brady Bunch (and Starsky & Hutch, and S.W.A.T., and Bewitched, and Mission Impossible), the tide pool of ’70s television shows to remake is finally drying up. There are still a … Continue reading →

Just as MTV was gaining a foothold in the world of cable TV in the early 1980s, movie musicals went into hiding. What was to blame? The glitzy New Wave/disco of Olivia Newton-John’s XANADU? The crash-and-burn of the Village People’s … Continue reading →

  (PRNewswire)  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures is putting into development a musical remake of MGM’s classic 1983 comedy VALLEY GIRL as a feature film based on an idea by Idealogy, Inc.’s Sean Bailey and Matt Smith. The announcement was made today by … Continue reading →

Yes, really. The 1983 sex comedy that a whole generation of guys have “seen” more than a dozen times is getting a remake treatment from filmmaker Mark Altman. To those who don’t remember the flick — and those who only … Continue reading →