1980s

The middle chapter that darkened the myth: Hoth, Dagobah, Bespin, and a revelation that broke moviegoing brains in 1980. Leigh Bra...

A writer winters as a hotel caretaker and the hotel winters into him. Kubrick Steadicam corridors, the twins, the elevator of bloo...

Jake LaMotta, a boxer whose rage wins rings and loses everything else. De Niro gained sixty pounds mid production for the decline ...

Indiana Jones, archaeology professor and punchline hero, races Nazis to the Ark of the Covenant. Lucas and Spielberg rebuilt the s...

Replicants, rain, neon, and a detective who might be what he hunts. Scott layered dystopia so densely that five cuts exist and fan...

An Antarctic crew meets an alien that imitates anything living, and paranoia eats the station. Rob Bottin practical effects, creat...

A boy hides a stranded alien in his closet and flies across the moon on a bicycle. The most personal Spielberg: divorce, suburbia,...

A cyborg assassin and a soldier chase a waitress through 1984 Los Angeles, and the future refuses to stay fixed. Cameron sold the ...

Marty McFly hits eighty eight miles per hour in a DeLorean and meets his teenage mother, who falls for him. A perfect clockwork sc...

Ripley returns with colonial marines to the colony, and the haunted house becomes a war movie. Cameron rewrote her as an action le...

A cop in a Los Angeles skyscraper, barefoot, against twelve terrorists on Christmas Eve. Bruce Willis was a TV comedy gamble, and ...

Neo Tokyo animation landmark: biker gangs, psychic children, and a military state. Otomo hand drew detail at a scale Japan had nev...

The hottest day of the year in Bed Stuy, and racial tension boils over a curbside fire. Lee wrote, directed, and starred, with Dan...

Salieri narrates his own confession: blessed with enough talent to recognize genius and cursed with none of it, he destroys the gi...

A grandfather reads a bedtime story: fencing, fire swamps, rodents of unusual size, and true love. Goldman adapted his own novel i...

Two girls move to the countryside to be near their sick mother and find the forest full of spirits: a giant grey creature who wait...