A recent ranking of the best '80s action movies has declared one 1988 release the clear No. 1. See why it still defines the genre today.

In 1988, cinema was quietly expanding in many directions simultaneously. Studio comedies reached absurdist perfection, action movies locked in new formulas, animation crossed cultural and formal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Comedy movies are one of the foundational pillars of cinema, and that's just a fact. Since the beginning of Hollywood, filmmakers ...