80’s Film And TV

Depending on your generation, the term Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous has one of two meanings. Either you have the Good Charlotte song stuck in your head for the rest of the day, or you’ve just remembered a 1980s TV classic. For the purposes of this article, we are going to refer to the latter. If you grew up…

That 80s Show, which only aired for a single season in 2002, was intended to be an amusing sitcom that parodied the fads and pop culture of the 1980s. It starred young actors who were famous at the time like Glenn Howerton, Geoff Pierson, Brittany Daniel, Tinsley Grimes, Chyler Leigh, and Eddie Shin, but it was canceled after just one season…

If you grew up in the 80s, then you probably have some pretty strong feelings about that decade. You may remember the fashion, music, food, and movies fondly. You might even still keep a cassette player around just to play your old mix tapes on it. As far as we’re concerned, those are good enough reasons (and maybe even more)…

Netflix has a bazillion movies to choose from. Some are good, and some not so great. But do you know about the best 80s movies on Netflix? Probably not, so that’s why we’re here to help! Obviously being such a large streaming platform, chances are when you login to your account you’ll see very little, if any movies from the…

If you grew up in the 1980s, you know that Corey Feldman was a big deal. Not only did he star in some of the greatest movies of the 1980s, he is also a musician and activist. The man was everywhere in the 1980s, and he continues to be one of the most memorable celebrities of the decade. Corey Feldman…

Game shows are a popular sub-genre of television. They are shows where a group of people compete for a prize (mostly cash prizes) while an audience watches live or at home. Throughout this sub-genre, there have been many different hosts throughout the years. However, some game show hosts stand out from the rest. While there are plenty of game show…

The 80s were known for its fashion, music, and movies. However one aspect of the greatest decade ever were its legendary soap operas. A series that follows the same group of characters in daily life is called a soap opera, and in the 1980s soap operas were all the rage. The origin of soap operas go way back to the…

Before everyone got their news from the internet, in the glorious 80s if you wanted to know what was going on, you got it from one of these news anchors from the 80s. You didn’t have as many choices as you do today, and one could argue it was a time when “news was news”. People didn’t fight over things…

There’s nothing like vampire movies from the 80s. The 80’s were more than just a time for campy horror. It also produced a generation of movies that explored and deconstructed various monster tropes like werewolves, aliens, and even more prominently, vampires. Whether it was Charley Brewster’s obsession with his vampire neighbor Jerry, or the kids battling it out with the…