Quiz: How Well Do You Know Sixteen Candles?
Everyone remembers Sixteen Candles but exactly how well do you remember it? What about the conversation Samantha had with her brother and mom before school. Do you remember that her Mom apologized for forgetting to fix her carrots for her? See how you do with the rest of this trivia: [viralQuiz id=4]
‘Despicable Me 3’ Gets An ’80s Inspired Villain
It looks like Despicable Me 3 is going to have 80s fans moon-walking on water with an all new 80s-inspired villain. The trailer for the film introduces Balthazar Bratt, a shoulder pad wearing, bad-to-the-bone villain. “Bratt is a former ’80s child star whose show got canceled after he hit puberty. Now he plans on executing a full-fledged world domination,” according to Variety. The new baddie is seen moon-walking on water...
Is Christmas Vacation The Best Holiday Movie Ever?
Of all the holiday movies ever made, it takes an 80s classic to be named the best of all time. According to Huffington Post writer Claire Fallon Christmas Vacation (1989) stands as the best holiday movie of all time. Fallon makes her case and notes that many so-called Christmas movies are not even really about the holiday itself. Christmas Vacation, on the other hand, could not be more pointedly about the highs and lows of the holiday...
Baywatch is Back and in Theaters May 2017
Whether you watched it or not, everyone remembers the iconic imagery of the late-80s/early-90s show, Baywatch. Filled with skin, sun and surf, the show thrived on high adrenaline situations and the people who took care of them. Baywatch was cast in a time of innocence and brought a sort of happy romanticism to the beach. People lounged under the sun, got along (for the most part) and there little deaths on the show. Considering the...
Is a Back to the Future Remake On the Way?
The Back to the Future Trilogy belongs to the 80s. And it looks like that’s where it’s going to stay. That is if producer Frank Marshall has anything to do with it. In this age of bad movie remakes and reboots, Marshall gets the fact that some iconic movies just should not be touched. Back to the Future is one of those movies. This is what Marshall recently told Yahoo Movies. “Yeah [we won’t reboot Back to the...
Can’t Stop the Music: The Village People Had a Movie?
The theatrical trailer for The Village People movie Can’t Stop the Music promised, “It’s the musical extravaganza that launches the 80s.” That outrages claim was actually an understatement. Chances are that you’ve never seen or even heard of this movie from the summer of 1980. Well, there’s a good reason for that. It’s because it bombed at the box office bigger than Heaven’s Gate and Ishtar combined. At a price tag of a...
Platoon’s Forest Whitaker and Johnny Depp Working Together Again
The 80s flick Platoon starred Forest Whitaker and Johnny Depp working alongisde each other in the Vietnam War movie classic. Both busy actors in the decade, Depp played a teen in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and later played a cop in 21 Jump Street (1987). Whitaker was involved in several TV series and TV movies as well and had a role in Stakeout in which Whitaker played a detective. As both were cast into previous roles “in”...
Grease 2: A Guilty Pleasure
A “guilty pleasure” is something—like a movie, TV show, or song—that brings you joy, despite a general consensus that it’s totally lame and Grease 2 certainly counts.The 1982 movie is like comfort food; it makes you feel happy, though you know it’s probably not very good. Grease 2: An impossible situation Because Grease 2 is obviously a sequel to the iconic 70s mega-hit, Grease (starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John), critics...
80s Movies: Platoon Turns 30 This December
Platoon came out in December 1986 making it 30 this year. When the film was released it was quickly embraced and soon rated the best depiction of the Vietnam War ever shown in a movie. When a young Charlie Sheen goes to war instead of college, he soon learns the evils of war and man. With somewhat of a devil sergeant and an angel sergeant, there are two battles to be won, one with the enemy and the other within his platoon. 5 reasons...
Shannen Doherty Taking Part in Heathers TV Show
Heathers may have come toward the end of the decade in 1988, but the film created perfect characters that screamed 1980s while also being timeless. Shannen Doherty, of course, played Heather Duke — the female leads– in the original movie and now she has taken to Instagram to tout her involvement in the upcoming reboot series on TV Land. What roll will Shannen Doherty play? The actress won’t be reprising her classic...
The Breakfast Club’s Judd Nelson Has Been Busy
After his 1980s Breakfast Club/St. Elmo’s Fire heyday Judd Nelson saw his career momentum falter. He never stopped working, but aside from a three-year run in the forgettable Brooke Shields sitcom Suddenly Susan his work was mostly one-off appearances on shows. Now, Nelson has a bit of a comeback on his hands. He’s not a movie star anymore, but he has thrown off the curse of being recognizable and perhaps typecast from his...
Personal Memories of The Blue Lagoon’s Christopher Atkins
As a gay kid in the 1980s, I’ll never forget the first time I saw Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon. The year was 1981. OMG! I thought an angel had descended from the Heavens, and was now stuck on a deserted island with Brooke Shields. I kept asking myself the same question I‘m sure most of you were. Why Brooke Shields?! Why can’t it be me? Let’s face it, The Blue Lagoon was pretty much eye-candy and beautiful scenery. If there...
What Classic Wonder Woman Fans Should Expect from the Film
It is official. The new, live-action Wonder Woman movie hits the screens in 2017. As the publicity photos and movie trailers illustrate, it isn’t quite the Wonder Woman many of you grew up with. The iconic TV show Lynda Carter will always be Wonder Woman to people of a certain generation. After a shaky first run on network TV in the late 70s, the series gained a cult following when it went into reruns in the 80s. That following...
Event Honors Legendary 80s Film Critic Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert, along with his partner Gene Siskel, began their legendary show At the Movies in 1986. The two used their simple thumbs up and thumbs down ratings system to tell people which movies to see for more than two decades. Now, the late Ebert has been honored at the Chicago Book Expo through an event celebrating some of his most memorable reviews and essays – from Do the Right Thing to Ebert’s thoughts on politics and life...
5 80s Summer Blockbuster Fails
One thing that the 80s films and films today have in common is the uncertainty when it comes to popularity. Some films are hits and some are just flat out misses. We created a list of 5 80s Summer Blockbuster Fails that shows some films just don’t cut it. Films like The Big Red One were hyped up to be hits but made a list of The Greatest Box-Office Flops of the 80s list. The list features some pretty notable films that could be...
