Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
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
August 27, 2007
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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
At first, Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) doesn’t seem to have a hell of a lot going for him. Most of his friends are girls, he lives with his bitter sister while his service parents
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
I’m a little obsessed with this movie. It may, in fact, be everything you need to know about the 80s.Essentially, this is The Breakfast Club Grow Up minus writer-director John Hughes, plus writer director
“That’s the sound of the men they’re working on the chain gang.” Three performances stand as the purest defined enduring epitome of cool and they are all in trouble with the law in their
“You mean we get to hit the guards?” Cool Hand Luke plays football minus the Jesus fixation. This one isn’t so much about the durability of the human spirit in the face of a
“Ladies and Gentlemen our corporate anthem.” Remember Roller Derby. What the hell was going on there? It was like a step below wrestling in class and there was even that Raquel Welch movie Kansas