Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) is walking through a living nightmare. Her sister is about to marry an uncouth Italian hood, both sets of Grandparents have invaded her house, and in all the insanity surrounding

In the aftermath of the Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris Columbine disaster, a clueless news reporter desperately trying to understand the un-understandable came forward with the shocking opinion that “apparently there were cliques in

The third and final chapter in the John Hughes Molly Ringwald trilogy takes the premise of Sixteen Candles, and raises the stakes a bit. What if the geek that was in love with her

I missed 52 days of school my senior year so I knew immediately where Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was coming from. In fact, if I could have pulled a chick like Mia Sara in

 John Hughes built his considerable reputation and wealth by dissecting and giving voice to the minds and hearts of Chicago’s upper class suburban youth. Risky Business, which came out the same year as Hughes’

River’s Edge opens with a twelve year old kid tossing his little sister’s prize doll into the river. It doesn’t even remotely get any more uplifting. Based on a true story, River’s Edge seemed

“Did you hear? School’s been cancelled today because Kurt and Ram killed themselves in a repressed gay suicide pact!” I’m actually pretty truly shocked that you can still rent this film after the Columbine

Cameron Crowe (Say Anything) and Amy Heckerling (Clueless) would both go on to make better movies about the teen experience, but this old warhorse is the one that essentially started it all. Apparently there

Better Off Dead is the kind of movie that people will rarely fess up to liking, but I’ve rarely met anyone who didn’t secretly love it passionately. Made by the courageously named Savage Steve

  It’s probably a little hard to take Emilio Estevez seriously as a disaffected punk turned car re-possessor after three Mighty Ducks movies and that crazy celluloid dream with brother Charlie where they played