1980s

The title character in Blue Jean, the debut feature by writer-director Georgia Oakley, is a lesbian gym teacher on a journey of self acceptance in Margaret Thatcher's England. MARY LOUISE…

Most music bands often have a backstory of hanging out together with people of similar musical tastes before they decide to form a band. But, when drummer K.M. Adithya and guitarist M. Krishnan struck upon the idea of forming a band, the…

LONDON — Andy Rourke, bass guitarist of The Smiths, one of the most influential British bands of the 1980s, has died after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer, his former bandmate Johnny Marr said Friday. He was 59.In…

Do you love the 1980s? John Hughes comedies such as "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Sixteen Candles," "Pretty in Pink," "Weird Science" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" captured the struggles of teens during…

I’m sorry to crack your rose-tinted glasses, Gen Xers, but the cartoons of the 1980s aren’t as good as you remember them. Put something like Thundercats next to the 90s Batman or Gargoyles and it just looks like a toy commercial. But I…

By Express News Service The trailer of the upcoming series, The Exchange, was released by Netflix recently. The series stars Rawan Mahdi, Mona Hussain and Hussain Al Mahdi.  The Exchange follows the story of Farida…

There's a famous scene in the iconic 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off when his dad's prized 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder accidentally crashes through a garage window and falls into the woods below.Photo by CBS via Getty…

Weak investment, low productivity and inadequate education have condemned Latin America to a period of economic failure even worse than the “lost decade” of the 1980s, according to the top UN economic official in the region.José…

Banks Repeta plays 11-year-old Paul Graff and Anthony Hopkins is his grandfather in Armageddon Time.…

Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: “Rap, Reagan…