John Hughes

Fun Size, the Teen Comedy That's Not Bad for You

Footloose: Still In Step

2011 remake has the moves to bridge generations and capture two demos.

A Date with Duckie

Burning Hotels

Burning Hotels Self-released

Crazy, Stupid, Love: Not Crazy Enough

Rom-com is sweet, but not groundbreaking.

Slayer Is The Latest Act To Join The Increasingly Impressive Lineup For Fun Fun Fun Fest '11

The above video, released today, confirms the latest addition to the ever-impressive 2011 bill for Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest, which, by moving out of Waterloo Park and into Auditorium Shores, stands to be the fest's biggest offering yet. Who's the latest add? Why, the mighty Slayer, of course. Or " ... More >>

Fun Fun Fun Fest Starts Leaking Lineup, Announces Odd Future, X, M83 Performances

We're big fans of Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest here at DC9 HQ -- and not just because the name of the festival reminds of our or favorite 1964 beach-pop jam. Fact is, the festival's a heck of a take, a capable competitor for Austin music festival supremacy, offering the hipster elite set a more palatab ... More >>

Isn't She?

Jenerally Speaking

Last Night at 35 Conferette: The Biggest Pain of Being Pure at Heart? Realizing That, If You Make Crowds Wait, They'll Leave.

Stephen MaskerThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart​The Pains of Being Pure at Heart7:15 p.m. 7:55 p.m. at Main Stage TwoIf all had happened accordingly, last night's performance from New York's The Pains of Being Pure at Heart would have gone over exceedingly well, with crowds swaying back and forth a ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: The Other Guys From Ghosthustler Create Kimberly And Gloriously Recall The John Hughes Era at No. 9

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 9 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to grab a free download of the track. Also after the j ... More >>

The Psychedelic Furs, She Wants Revenge

Thursday, July 1, at the Granada Theater

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to See The Psychedelic Furs at the Granada of Thursday

You can't read Catherine Downes' take on the Psychedelic Furs's stop through the Granada Theater on Thursday night just yet--it's in this upcoming weeks' paper, and that sucker ain't out yet. But because I'm in a pretty decent mood this afternoon, here's a taste: Unlike many of their peers who rode ... More >>

Hot Tub Time Machine

Weekend Roundup: KISS, 311, Aesop Rock, AFI, 30 Seconds to Mars, Telegraph Canyon

KISS at American Airlines Center on Sunday, December 6:KISS: The only guys I know who wear more makeup than I do. Maybe except for Jared Leto. Oooh, burn!

Top 10 Thanksgiving Dinners in Movies (And TV)

When it comes to movie holidays, Thanksgiving usually takes a back seat to that overplayed holiday in December. The one with the elves. The one that rhymes with "isthmus." (Sort of.) But why the second-class status, Thanksgiving? The holiday's got all the same potential for family chaos, waxing mor ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Brother's Pizza

Something's wrong with this picture.​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Brother's Pizza 4151 Travis214-219-5200 Promised delivery time: 50 minutes Actual delivery time: 90 minutes The ScoreActually experien ... More >>

Let My Cameron Go

Today In Music News: Jackson's Hard Drive Is Full Of Music, Tenacious D Replaces The Beastie Boys, Steven Tyler Falls and John Hughes Dies

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009...Looks like Michael Jackson's estate will produce as much posthumous music as Tupac's. Hard drives containing at least 100 unreleased songs--new and old--were taken by his sister LaToya.The Outside Lands Festival booked the most ... More >>

Farewell, John Hughes

​Pardon the break in postings -- I spent the last little while watching this nine-minute tribute to the eight films John Hughes wrote and directed, among them Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science (co-starring Fort Worth's Bill Paxton) and Pla ... More >>

Wherein We Connect John Hughes to Kevin Smith to Zeus Comics' New Web Series

​Speaking of the late John Hughes, one of his biggest acolytes is Kevin Smith, who told The Los Angeles Times last year, "Basically my stuff is just John Hughes films with four-letter words." So happens that the writer-director of Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma will bring his one-man stan ... More >>

Gig Alert: VNV Nation and War Tapes at the Granada Tonight

VNV NationListening to VNV Nation is reminiscent of listening to alternative music when it was a viable and legitimate form of music. The band isn't something you're going to hear on a traditional modern rock radio station; combining elements of electronica, dance music and a little bit of industria ... More >>

M83's Anthony Gonzalez Talks Killers, John Hughes

In last week's print product, we spoke with M83 frontman, founder and brainchild Anthony Gonzalez about the major influences on his latest release, 2008's stellar synth-heavy Saturdays=Youth.But what ran in the print issue was only a piece of the conversation--we also spoke with the Frenchman about ... More >>

M83 Explains Its John Hughes Love

Patriotic, Not Platonic

Young Adult Fiction

High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen

The Croissant Club

Harold and Kumar Get Shipped to Gitmo in a Forced Act Two

Holiday Road

King of the Chill

Christmas Nuts

On a Bender

"Who has to go to the lavatory?"

It's Dream Time

Hughes High looks so easy

The Force Runs Its Course

We Heart Harry

Nope

Gettin' Up the Rent (Backlash Records) Competition (Not yet determined)

Best Place to Make Out

Downtown

The Geek

Anthony Michael Hall grows up

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Teen Spleen

Talking smack wreaks high school havoc in Mean Girls

Hallway Gangstas

When bad things happen to good kids, their Luck always holds

Asking for It

Storytelling continues Solondz's bluster of sex, rage and insanity

Rhythms of Youth

The documentary Chain Camera spins with the delirium of contemporary teenhood

Teen beaten

Takes or leave this anachronistic teen film

White-trash receptacle

With a sneer and a wink, Drowning Mona plunges us into a fresh deluge of idiotic Americana

In God he trusts

Kevin Smith finally uses his religion in Dogma

The New School

Everything I need to know about the modern American teen I learned by going to the movies

The manic professor

This antiquated vehicle becomes a showcase for digital effects

Cruella and unusual punishment

Disney's new Dalmatians ain't the puppy chow it could have been

The lost generation

Kevin Smith's Mall Rats is a derivative retread of Clerks