The first seven installments of the Shōwa era were released on a yearly basis from 1965 to 1971. The final installment, which ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Kelly Lynch was one of the hottest Hollywood blondes in the 1980s. The 66-year-old actress was the sexy thing in the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail in 1988; she played the baddie lover to Bryan Brown's ...

The original movie was released in 1985 and forty years later, continues to inspire audiences. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Goonies never say die, but they do, apparently, say Lego. The brick toy ...

It’s a mystery even local historians can’t crack. Are the statues that local history buff Jeff Young acquired in a recent estate sale survivors of the notorious MGM Grand fire that killed 87 people in ...

It’s West Berlin, 8th June 1982, and a ragged-throated Mick Jagger is more than ready for some post-show refreshment. Staring out at the mesmerised crowd assembled at the city’s Olympiapark Waldbühne ...

She was an 1980s pinup who landed Vogue magazine covers, making her a top star alongside Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington. Former Victoria's Secret model Elaine Irwin posed for splashy campaigns ...

An age of shoulder pads, rising nuclear tensions, and enough hairspray to cause a climate crisis, the 1980s is routinely cast in a perpetually rose-tinted light in the modern age, as the youth embrace ...

Atari announced the Intellivision Sprint, a brand-new gaming console, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the release of the original home video game console, Intellivision. Featuring 45 fan-favourite ...

The hair was big, the shoulder pads were even bigger. But not everything in the 1980s was booming. In Sheffield, the pits were closing, unemployment was high and being a lesbian car mechanic had its ...

The action genre remains fairly strong to this day, whether it’s in the form of superhero movies or buddy heist movies like Play Dirty, they’re still released fairly regularly. But there were two ...