It’s not the teen rebellion manifesto it thinks it is. It’s a film about kids who needed their terrible adults more than they’d ever admit. When Brian writes that letter to Vernon: “You see us as you want to see us – in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions” – it’s meant to … Read more
I’ll give it to John Hughes, he had a way of making you feel… stuff. Dutch, his less-discussed 1991 Thanksgiving road movie, stars Ed O’Neill as the blue-collar everyman stuck on a cross-country trip with Ethan Embry’s hoity-toity prep school snob. Dutch plays it fast and loose in terms of style and substance, like Career … Read more
Weird Science arrived on Home Video today in 1986, after an August 2, 1985 theatrical release. If, like me, you were a teenage boy in the 80s – awkward, invisible, and perpetually teetering on the edge of social disaster – you probably had a moment where you wished someone could just magic your problems away. … Read more