1979 wasn't just the end of a decade—it was a cinematic mic drop. The final year of the '70s saw American auteurs at the height of their creative power, international filmmakers rewriting the language ...

1979 sits right at that fault line. Cinematically, it's a year defined by extremes: apocalyptic visions of the future, harrowing portraits of war, absurdist comedy, existential science fiction, and ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...