Tag: Some Kind of Wonderful

  • This Other ’80s Movie Is Basically a More Depressing ‘The Breakfast Club’

    This Other ’80s Movie Is Basically a More Depressing ‘The Breakfast Club’

    No one dominated the 1980s quite like “The Brat Pack.” A generation of young stars that emerged from the John Hughes era of high school comedies, the various young actors and actresses associated with the Brat Pack starred in many of the most significant hit films of the era, including all-time classics like Ferris Bueller’s…

  • Five Nights At Freddy’s Updated Synopsis Finally Reveals Mary Stuart Masterson’s Role

    Five Nights At Freddy’s Updated Synopsis Finally Reveals Mary Stuart Masterson’s Role

    The road from indie video game to big-screen adaptation for “Five Nights at Freddy’s” has been a long one, with an assortment of delays, a full script rewrite, and a director change. Fans were starting to give up hope that the film would ever come to fruition, and considering the absolutely massive fanbase of the…

  • This John Hughes Classic Almost Starred Viggo Mortensen

    This John Hughes Classic Almost Starred Viggo Mortensen

    The ’80s birthed many classic films, specifically formative teen comedies that we still love to this day. Among them were films like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Some Kind of Wonderful, Weird Science, and The Breakfast Club. A common thread between each of these films is John Hughes, who wrote each one. John Hughes movies changed…

  • The Great Outdoors Sequel In The Works, According To Dan Aykroyd

    The Great Outdoors Sequel In The Works, According To Dan Aykroyd

    One of the more minor asterisks in writer/producer John Hughes’ canon is the 1988 comedy “The Great Outdoors,” which paired Dan Aykroyd and the late John Candy as mismatched brothers-in-law whose two families come together at a Wisconsin lake resort. Slapstick hilarity ensued, including water skiing mishaps, a steak-eating contest and a giant bear attack. The…

  • What’s Coming to Amazon Prime Video in December 2019

    What’s Coming to Amazon Prime Video in December 2019

    With the holidays around the corner, Amazon Prime Video is adding an abundance of movies and TV shows to stream while relaxing at home.A majority of fresh content will drop on the first of the month, starting with Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” and Kevin Bacon’s “Footloose” on Dec. 1. For superhero enthusiasts, “Hancock” and “Bumblebee”…

  • As John Hughes’ Films Face Criticism, ‘Love, Simon’ Marks a New Era For Teen Movies

    As John Hughes’ Films Face Criticism, ‘Love, Simon’ Marks a New Era For Teen Movies

    For decades, John Hughes’ six-movie run between 1984 and 1987 was the gold standard of teen-centric high school films including “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” and “Some Kind of Wonderful.” Hughes didn’t direct all of those films, but was sole screenwriter on each — enough to stamp them…