Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While some may say the narrative of Flashdance is a bit silly, the power of its soundtrack, which topped the Billboard charts in ...

SEEOscar Flashback: Best Original Songs of the early 1980s, including ‘Fame,’ ‘Flashdance…What a Feeling’ With its early-year release and dismal critical reception, one might assume awards would’ve ...

Paramount+, currently known as CBS All Access and poised for a rebranding next year, is dipping into its vault and will reboot its iconic 1983 feature film 'Flashdance' as a TV series. By Lesley ...

The tune from 1983’s ‘Flashdance’ became a hit single and won the Oscar for best original song that year. By Hilton Dresden Associate Awards Editor The opening synthesizer lines of the song ...

"Flashdance" is celebrating its 40th anniversary. First released in 1983, the movie follows the story of Alex Owens, an 18-year-old girl working as a welder in a steel mill. Owens has dreams of being ...

Jennifer Beals went from wide-eyed acting newcomer to movie star and 1980s fashion icon in "Flashdance" 40 years ago. Audiences were swept up in Beals' performance as Pittsburgh steel mill welder Alex ...

Just like 18-year-old Alex Owens — who worked both a steel mill and a stripper pole in Pittsburgh, Penn. before finally getting the chance to live out all her ballerina dreams — “Flashdance” was the ...

Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his ...

CBS All Access hopes to put another maniac on the floor. The streaming service is developing a series adaptation of Flashdance, the 1983 film that launched Jennifer Beals' career. According to The ...

Nostalgia tends to color perceptions. It often overpowers logic, leaving behind unfairly positive or negative views of pop culture moments. In the 1980s, Adrian Lyne’s Flashdance dominated box offices ...

“Flashdance” was one of those movies that critics loved to hate. When it came out in the spring of 1983, the poison-pen reviews seemed to compete with each other in their vindictiveness. “(‘Flashdance ...