Motown Records stumbled into the 1980s from the ‘70s, watching its greatest hitmakers return to the charts via other labels — Diana Ross at RCA, Marvin Gaye at Columbia and, of course, Michael Jackson ...

Some movies are born significant, some achieve significance, and some have significance thrust upon them – not always in the way their makers would have wished. An intended lament for the death of the ...

When the movie version of The Right Stuff flopped in the fall of 1983, Tom Wolfe, who wrote the book upon which it was based, noted that audience research indicated moviegoers intended to see the film ...

When I was a teenager, one of my favorite albums was my father’s copy of the soundtrack from the 1983 movie The Big Chill. Booming from my father’s cassette player came Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson ...

The film, about a group of Baby Boomer college friends brought together 15 years later after a friend commits suicide, won the People’s Choice Award at TIFF when it had its world premiere at the ...

With “The Big Chill” being popular with audiences and many critics, it seemed probable the film would be an awards player going into 1984. However, some critics dismissed it, like Dave Kehr in Chicago ...

Chris Cunningham has been added to the bill of this year's Big Chill Festival. The cult music video director will play a combination of original music and remixed tracks with synchronised new video ...