10 h. ago Lemmy, Leigh Bowery and ‘the two Georges’: 80s stars in the Limelight – in pictures

It was the place to be through the 1980s, a nightclub where Johnny Rotten and Kim Wilde rubbed shoulders with the Beastie Boys and, er, Mel Smith. David Koppel’s new book captures it all Continue reading...

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48 h. ago 80s music icon dies after health battle as 'heartbroken' bandmate pays six

An 80s music star has sadly died and his bandmate has issued a short statement following the announcement as fans gather on social media to pay tribute

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6 d. ago Club that had Boy George working its cloakroom shaped the 1980s

The Blitz nightclub in Covent Garden was only open for 18 months and only on Tuesday nights - but it become the crucible for a cultural revolution and launched the careers of some of the biggest stars of the 80s

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9 d. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – whodunnit threequel is murderously good fun

Toronto film festival: after Glass Onion underwhelmed, Rian Johnson’s self-aware, star-packed Benoit Blanc series makes a barnstorming return to formIf Glass Onion wasn’t quite the deserving follow-up to Knives Out that many of us had hoped it would be (it was more focused on the bigger rather than better), it was at the very least a deserved victory lap. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s 2019 whodunnit brought us back to the starry, slippery fun of the 70s and 80s, when films like this would be a dime a dozen and it was a surprise hit, making almost eight times its budget at the global box office. While Kenneth Branagh had seen commercial success already with his Poirot revival two years prior, his retreads felt too musty, and the actor-director too miscast, for the genre to truly feel like it was entering an exciting new period.Johnson’s threequel, Wake Up Dead Man, is the second as part of his Netflix deal (one that cost an estimated $450m) and arrives as the whodunnit genre has fou...

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2 w. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

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2 w. ago Knight Rider could return as the 80s classic is being adapted into film starring The Hoff

Fans of classic 80s show Knight Rider could be in for a treat, as the TV show is currently going through an adaptation to potentially bring it to the big screen

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3 w. ago The Big Bang Theory star totally unrecognisable in 'best 80s show ever made'

The series originally aired in 1985 and ran for seven seasons.

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3 w. ago 80s star from iconic horror movie who also starred alongside Madonna is unrecognizable on rare outing

His impressive resume includes a starring role in John Landis' 1981 comedy horror film An American Werewolf in London. He joined forces with the Queen of Pop in the 1987 comedy Who's That Girl.

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3 w. ago Two women in their 80s get STUCK in hot tub which starts cooking them alive

A group of pensioners in their 80s were left frantically calling emergency services after two members of the group couldn't get out of a scorching hot tub during their cabin stay in Kentucky, US

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3 w. ago Horror after female friends in their 80s enjoying girls' trip got STUCK in hot tub that started cooking them alive

Several women over the age of 80 took a trip to the remote wilderness of Wolfe County's Campton when they decided to take a dip in the hot tub.

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3 w. ago Gilmore Girls star lands upcoming biopic film with 1980s movie legends

Alexis Bledel is best known for playing Rory Gilmore in the US TV series Gilmore Girls, but she has now been cast in a new film alongside a star from an iconic 80s movie.

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4 w. ago 80s film legend barely recognisable 40 years after he starred in iconic blockbuster

A Hollywood legend who found fame in a 1980s cult classic was spotted out and about recently - but can you recognise him all these decades later?

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