Detective stories from the '80s showcased a diversity of genres, including comedies, thrillers, and buddy cop movies, still popular today. Familiar faces like Harrison Ford, Jackie Chan, and Sean ...

The buddy cop subgenre saw a rise in popularity during the '80s with films like 48 Hrs. and Beverly Hills Cop, and has continued to find success decades later with some of the best examples coming ...

I wasn't born in the 80s but I grew up watching movies from the period and there was a plethora of cop movies. There are almost as many Police Academy films as days in the week, but the undoubted ...

A prototype of the '80s buddy cop movie, and one of its greatest: Grizzled cop (Nick Nolte) pairs with Eddie Murphy, who is at his most smart-assed. -- Nick Lucchesi. Turner & Hooch (1989) ...

Since the movie is “Cop Out,” the “homage” is to ’80s cop movies – a fond remembrance of those jokey, bloody “Beverly […] Skip to content. All Sections.

The ‘80s helped shape the action-comedy genre we still enjoy today — and “Beverly Hills Cop” was at the forefront of that development. Now, 40 years later, the impact of this particular ...

The interracial buddy-cop movie (in which, it bears noting, the buddies aren’t always police officers per se, but are always crime fighters) was an ’80s bumper crop, but it has outlived the ...

New feature here on Stuck in the '80s. Because all these movie quotes swirl around in my head 24 hours a day, I figure I'll plop them down here and hopefully open some space up in the ole noggin ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the 1980s, action movies got big. Really, really big. Not only were stars like Arnold ...