Tag: John Hughes
Possessed by Aphrodite: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Jenny Han’s widely successful To All the Boys YA series was, of course, always destined to be adapted into an according film trilogy. The tale [Read More…]
Repo Man As Prequel to Pretty in Pink
Alex Cox and John Hughes have little in common directorially–except for Harry Dean Stanton. A testament to the character actor’s ability to flit in and [Read More…]
How Jake Ryan Ruined My (And Every Other Heteronormative White Woman’s) Life
What amount of ink hasn’t been spilled over the oeuvre of John Hughes and his many-splendored universe of characters? There has also been no shortage [Read More…]
Kylie Jenner Puts Prom Back on the Map In, Of All Places, Sacramento
While Kylie’s sister, Kendall, might be fucking up left and right (but mainly right in police sympathizing), Kylie herself is showing herself to be a [Read More…]
Alan Ruck Can’t Let Go of the Masochism of Cameron Frye for Domino’s Commercial
For someone who once said of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, “I hated that movie. I couldn’t get any other work. People would be like, ‘Heyyy!’ [Read More…]
Some Kind Of Wonderful on Its 30th Birthday: Still The Ultimate Consolation to the Friend Zone Sufferer
Coinciding somewhat unfortunately with another John Hughes-related milestone–the death of Bill Paxton, legendary douchebag perfecter in the form of Chet from Weird Science–the thirtieth anniversary [Read More…]
Bill Paxton & Why We Should Thank Him For Perfecting the Art of the Douchebag As Chet in Weird Science
One of the least revered John Hughes movies from his renaissance period during the 80s is, apart from She’s Having A Baby, Weird Science. Released [Read More…]
The Intertwined Hearts of Molly Ringwald & John Hughes
On February 18th, what would have marked John Hughes’ sixty-sixth birthday, it is significant to appreciate not just the shaper of 80s culture’s date of [Read More…]
The 30th Anniversary of Pretty in Pink Comes at An Approriately Romantic Time
When it comes to movies about forbidden love, Shakespeare adaptations have nothing on John Hughes’ 1986 classic, Pretty in Pink. Centered around the intelligent, “offbeat” [Read More…]
Macaulay Culkin Takes Home Alone to a Dark Place in Web Series :DRYVRS
We’ve all been concerned about Macaulay Culkin for a long time now (maybe beginning around the moment he got married to Broadway actress Rachel Miner [Read More…]
