Sam Barsanti has written about pop-culture for 10 years, and his work has appeared at The A.V. Club, Primetimer, IGN, and Collider. He has also contributed to the popular daily Hustle newsletter, ...

In the larger pantheon of sci-fi history, there's truly been no decade quite like the 1980s. After some defining new films came out in the '60s and '70s, sci-fi became the new 'genre film' of the '80s ...