Every now and then, a soundtrack comes along that freezes a music-historical moment in amber for a new generation. In 1983, The Big Chill soundtrack helped yuppies discover Motown. Frank Ocean surely ...

Some of the smartest people I know from the 1960s don’t like “The Big Chill,” the 1983 movie about seven college friends from the ’60s who regather at the funeral of an eighth friend. The characters ...

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 ...

One of my favorite tapes as a kid was the Big Chill soundtrack. How could it not have been? It’s an oldies juggernaut, almost toothache-inducing with its hits on hits on hits. But I never saw 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 ...

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Here’s a reason for some of us to feel old. Could it really be 30 years ago since The Big Chill, the saga of yuppies reconnecting, pouring out angst and bed hopping to Motown songs? The Toronto Film ...

It’s been 30 years since the release of “The Big Chill,” the ensemble drama about baby boomers pining for their lost youth while sprawled out on the floor of a vacation house and playing a lot of ...