The mid-1980s were a strange time for martial arts movies, both in the U.S. and abroad. The broadly termed “kung fu” genre had run amok with wild abandon in Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, ...

1985 was a contradictory year for the movies. Its best films were split between pop spectacle and prestige drama, rebellious youth stories and weighty historical epics. Many of them were ambitious, ...

A slew of classic films turn 40 this summer, including Back to the Future, Cocoon, The Goonies, and Fletch. Theaters were busy in 1985, in other words — which means a number of perfectly solid movies ...

Remus is a writer, editor, journalist, and author with an eye for detail and an extremely active imagination. He is an enthusiast of everything to do with the graphic medium, whether it's Western ...

A film becomes a cult classic when it acquires a following outside of mainstream or mass culture. This so-called cult can be defined by a devoted set of fans who proselytize about the movie’s ...