1980s
Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ Always Sounds New
No matter how many times you’ve heard the singer-songwriter’s unlikely 1988 hit, it feels like you’re rediscovering its modestly devastating heartbreak. That’s because the story it tells still isn’t over.
The 1980s Were the Golden Age of the Weird Movie Musical
Remembering the decade that gave us ‘Shock Treatment,’ The Apple’ and *checks notes* ‘Voyage of the Rock Aliens’
Just an Ordinary Guy: A Salute to Michael Keaton’s Deceptively Normal 1980s Comedies
Whether hanging out in a morgue in ‘Night Shift’ or getting paranormal in ‘Beetlejuice,’ the veteran actor was one of the decade’s most underrated funnymen — and also one of its most restless and self-critical.
The Steven Spielberg ‘Poltergeist’ Theory That’s Still Spooking Hollywood
Tobe Hooper is listed as the filmmaker of this 1980s horror classic, but the world remains convinced that Spielberg is the movie’s true auteur. It’s a controversy that says a lot about what we think a director does.
