The van stopped rolling in 1987. Four men who had spent five seasons welding cannons onto cabbage trucks walked off the lot and into four completely different lives. What happened next is the part nobody put on a lunchbox. As of August 2026: Mr. T is 74 and has not taken a scripted role since […]
Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply. A boardroom demo goes catastrophically wrong, and a murdered cop gets rebuilt as the company’s replacement plan. RoboCop is a 1987 science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O’Herlihy, Ronny […]
A New York cop, no shoes, and thirty floors of terrorists between him and his wife. That’s the entire pitch, and it barely needed more than that. Die Hard is a 1988 action film directed by John McTiernan, based on Roderick Thorp’s novel Nothing Lasts Forever, starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov and Bonnie […]
E.T. phone home. Four words, a glowing finger pointed at the sky, and one of the most quoted lines in movie history. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison, starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton and Drew Barrymore. Here’s who was in the […]
Keep him out of the light, especially sunlight. Don’t get him wet. And never, under any circumstances, feed him after midnight. Three rules, one small furry creature, and an entire Christmas Eve’s worth of chaos when a small town breaks all of them. Gremlins is a 1984 comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante, written […]
“It’s showtime!” Two ghosts who just want their house back summon the one thing worse than the problem: a con artist from the afterlife who eats bugs, wears a mildewed pinstripe suit, and cannot legally be trusted with anything. Beetlejuice is a 1988 gothic comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton as […]
He survived the decade that made him inescapable. What nearly killed Phil Collins was the stopping, and he has been telling us so since 2016.
The Fly opened in theaters on August 15, 1986. That makes the 40th anniversary August 15, 2026. David Cronenberg directed it, Jeff Goldblum played the scientist who steps into a teleportation pod with a housefly, Geena Davis played the reporter who has to watch what happens next, and it won the Academy Award for Best […]
Forty years ago today, and we are still arguing about a duck. Howard the Duck opened in American theaters on August 1, 1986, which makes today its 40th anniversary. You already know the reputation. Marvel’s first movie. George Lucas’s disaster. The punchline that outlived everybody in it. Here is the part the reputation leaves out: […]
Two names, one stage, and not a single note of music. We are still processing this one. David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen are appearing together this Thursday, July 30, at TEDxFargo, at the Brewhalla entertainment space in Fargo, North Dakota. It is the first time the two of them have been in front […]