The other constant in life is that “Airplane!”, the 1980 spoof of the disaster movie genre from directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, is still the funniest movie ever made.

Like a lot of kids that grew up in the suburbs in the 1980s, “The Goonies” spoke to a sense of wonder and adventure that could be right around the corner in your backyard.

Like other great horror movies, Jaws is all about fear.

“Dazed and Confused” inspired my love of film and made me want to go into screenwriting, a life that’s been deferred but a life I ponder revisiting from time to time.