This year marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic Cold War thriller "Red Dawn," a film by a Hollywood conservative that showcased patriotism, a love for the American military and warned of the ...

We’ve used the occasion of the remake’s release to dig up the Chronicle‘s review of the original, which appeared in the September 7, 1984 issue, right around the time of the paper’s third anniversary.

I’m a child of the 1980s. I have iconic memories of Ronald Reagan, Pac-Man and seeing Van Halen live in ’81. It was big hair, big bands and big times. It was cruising in my ’68 Mustang with Journey’s ...