There are few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s. But to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple some ones

who were there for it the first time around.

Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade

one month at a time.

The look at what worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there when it all went

down.

Turn back the calendar with us.

It's the 80s all over. Thank you. I'm going to I read in the I read in memorized Goldson's book.

For 30 years, I have plotted to bring down the body.

April the 4th April 4th. I'm sick.

1984.

Together as my phone museums.

If we can get a little meta-textual, Winston Smith began keeping his secret diary in April 4th in George Orwell's

1984, which I actually used to think was science fiction.

Thriller sat at the top of the charts for 37 straight weeks.

That is amazing.

What finally knocked it out of the number one spot?

The footloose soundtrack.

For the first time ever, U.S. astronauts attempted an in-space satellite repair,

and the Challenger crew actually managed to successfully return the Solar Max satellite to service.

And in what was unquestionably, the biggest story of the

month, Dr. Jay Levy and his team announced the discovery of the AIDS virus, finally giving name to a rising

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