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80s Movies

AMC Fear Fest
Pop Culture

Nostalgic Horror Favorites Return as AMC Reveals FearFest Lineup Hosted By the Crypt Keeper

Walter King

AMC’s FearFest brings back nostalgic horror favorites with a refreshed Crypt Keeper hosting the monthlong celebration, delivering classic scares and retro thrills all October.

Red Dawn
Pop Culture

Retro Reel Reviews: Red Dawn (1984)

Mickey Yarber

Teenagers become unlikely warriors when paratroopers invade Colorado. Raw emotion, rugged action, and pure 80s intensity drive this fierce Cold War classic.

The Day After Review
Pop Culture

Retro Reel Reviews: The Day After (1983)

Mickey Yarber

It terrified everyone in 1983, but does The Day After still hold up as a nuclear nightmare today?

Big Movie Review
Pop Culture

Retro Reel Reviews: Big (1988)

Mickey Yarber

A kid wakes up as an adult and discovers grown up life is not all it is cracked up to be. Big is pure 80s charm.

Podcast

The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 46 | Ranking the ROCKY Movie Franchise

Chad Droze

Yo Adrian! Episode 46 of the #RRPod comin’ at ya! Ken and Chad are taking the Rocky Movie Franchise (from the original Rocky from 1976 all the way through “Rocky Balboa” in 2006 but not

Podcast

The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 45 | Mount Rushmore of Kevin Bacon Films

Chad Droze

We’re back from Summer Break, and beginning the 2nd Half of 2026 Ken and Chad debate and discuss the career and filmography of Kevin Bacon. It’s a Rushmore episode of the podcast – what four

Back to the Future
Pop Culture

Retro Reel Reviews: Back to the Future (1985)

Mickey Yarber

Everyone remembers Back to the Future as a massive 80s hit, but is it still as fun today as it was back then?

The Breakfast Club
Pop Culture

Breaking Stereotypes: The Enduring Power of The Breakfast Club

Mickey Yarber

The Breakfast Club showed us the truth about being teenagers—five kids, one Saturday, and a story that made an entire generation feel understood.

Pop Culture

Hop Down Memory Lane: Revisiting the Magic of Dot and the Kangaroo

Brian Cave

There is one sound that has stuck with me almost all my life. It’s a short thip-thip-thip from a kangaroo as it talks to a little girl named Dot, but it turns out I didn’t

80s Halloween Music Videos

The 80’s Halloween Video Countdown

The 80s delivered spooky music videos that were more camp than terror, but always unforgettable. From plague masks to werewolves, here are the decade’s creepiest, corniest, most entertaining gems.

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