1980s American Movie Classics

The 1980s were a lucrative time for American cinema, a decade in where films were consistently making previously unimaginable sums of money at the box office. Largely unpoliticized, much of the most popular cinema of the 1980s was about having a good time, living a rich and fulfilled life, overcoming the odds, and getting the […]

While American cinema of the 1970s, often dubbed the era of the New Hollywood boom, was largely character-based, reflecting the lives of the people who were queuing up outside the theatres, the 1980s were undoubtedly the time of the blockbuster, of escapism, the age in which big budget action flicks, dazzling sci-fi epics and feel-good […]