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 ...
When John Carpenter’s “The Thing” was released in 1982, it bombed. Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.,” by contrast soared, becoming a national phenomenon. Still, the two share a bond in Chris Nashawaty’s new ...