The Best Movies & Shows Released in 1982 on Hoopla

This cult classic is the first hip-hop movie in cinema’s history — and, aptly, one of the most sampled movies in rap music. With a cast drawn exclusively from the NYC graffiti, breakdancing, and rap subcultures that it spotlights, Wild Style wisely doesn’t try too hard to construct a conventional drama. Instead, there are toe-tapping […]

Does fiction influence real life? It’s a question many artists have to reckon with, especially if they depict darker themes and have detractors as a result. More so if they’re considered the Master of Italian Horror. This makes Tenebre quite interesting. Through a murder mystery where a serial killer seems to take their playbook from […]

In An Officer and a Gentleman, Richard Gere (Pretty Woman, Chicago) plays an aspiring aviation officer hoping to make it in a rigorous navy program. He’s mentored by the strict but well-meaning Sergeant Emil Foley, played by Louis Gossett Jr. in an Oscar-wining performance (the first African-American to win in this category). An Officer and […]