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As the calendar turned to 2024, I began mentally cracking my knuckles. It was time to celebrate the movie year of 1984 as it turns 40—and by most objective measures, it was a pretty big one.

Mr Reiner followed “This is Spinal Tap” with a snappy, sexy teen movie, “The Sure Thing” (1985), and then made a sensitive coming-of-age drama, “Stand by Me”, based on a novella by Stephen King, “The ...

The 80s was a decade that, if not producing the best films of any decade, certainly produced some of the most significant in terms of pop culture influence. Many years on and many of the franchises ...