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Have a Draft with the Drafthouse

By Danny Gallagher
Nov 6, 2014

You're not a true movie geek until you've been to the Alamo Drafthouse at least 1,312 times. They've become a growing mecca of pop culture goodness as new locations spring up all throughout the country. We've been gifted with our own theater in Richardson but one theater can't truly house...
Life Moves Pretty Fast. Slow Down With Art.

By Jennifer Medina
Jun 27, 2013

There’s just one more day to go until that fat paycheck comes in, but somehow you’ve still managed to find yourself penniless and in desperate need of entertainment. Well, if you can scrounge together enough change from between your couch cushions to get yourself to Cowtown for the night, then...
A Date with Duckie

By Kaitlin Ingram
Sep 29, 2011

Are the memories of your high school prom a little hazy at this point? Have a do-over! Reading & Radio Resource is hosting Prom Night 2011 at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Starlight Room, 603 Munger Ave., and the theme is "A John Hughes Experience," which means you can wear...
Burning Hotels

Burning Hotels Self-released

By Mark Schectman
Sep 1, 2011

On Fort Worth band Burning Hotels' eponymous release, we meet a band moving in a different, far more focused direction than showcased on previous efforts. A lineup change and name change (no more "The") in late 2010 sparked the new direction, then displayed in the form of a video art...
Jenerally Speaking

By Jennifer Medina
May 5, 2011

Some would find it a little presumptuous for a forty-something non-celebrity everywoman to write five, yes five, memoirs, but Jen Lancaster has something to say and she'll be damned if anyone is going to stop her. Her tales have run the gamut from unemployment to weight loss to reality television...
Isn't She?

By Katey Margolis
May 5, 2011

Pretty in Pink is one of a handful of movies I will watch anytime. I mean, I would watch it every day if it presented itself every day. There is something so very comforting about it, and I can't put my finger on it. Is it just because it was...
The Psychedelic Furs, She Wants Revenge

Thursday, July 1, at the Granada Theater

By Catherine Downes
Jul 1, 2010

Unlike many of their peers who rode New Wave to fame in the early '80s only to end up as dusty, record-store memories, the Psychedelic Furs are still alive and touring. Thank John Hughes for that; after all, having the classic 1986 romantic-comedy/coming-of-age film Pretty in Pink named after the...
Let My Cameron Go

By S. Anne Durham
Sep 10, 2009

Do you consider Ferris Bueller's Day Off a classic movie? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? We do. After all, like most of John Hughes' other movies, we've been quoting it for more than 20 years. It's a film cornerstone of a pop culture genre that features some put-upon teen rallying the troops...
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

By Lance Lester
Aug 7, 2009

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 logical replacement for the Beastie...
M83's Anthony Gonzalez Talks Killers, John Hughes

By Pete Freedman
Feb 4, 2009

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 his current role opening...
M83 Explains Its John Hughes Love

By Pete Freedman
Jan 29, 2009

B-Sides: Most every critical take I've seen on your lastest release, Saturdays=Youth, has called it out as perfect material for a John Hughes film soundtrack—which is pretty spot-on by my account too. How do you feel about that comparison? Anthony Gonzalez: I like it. The John Hughes movies have been...
Young Adult Fiction

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

By Ella Taylor
Jul 31, 2008

Notwithstanding all the pundit-driven hot air about the horrors of being young in today's America, I'm willing to buy the argument that it's getting harder to survive those years, if only because there's so much more for the poor dears to worry about—more information, more technology, more stuff to consume,...
The Croissant Club

By Merritt Martin
May 1, 2008

Every time I think of the work of MoliÃ¨re I can't help but also think of John Hughes' The Breakfast Club: specifically the scene in which Judd Nelson's John Bender sits on a card catalog "re-alphabetizing" the cards, pausing at one to drawl, "Moe-lay really pumps my nads." Oddly, The...
King of the Chill

By Patrick Williams
Jun 7, 2007

"What is so dangerous about a character like Ferris Bueller is he gives good kids bad ideas." I suppose if you're an aficionado of Serious Cinema, you could substitute the words "film directors" for "good kids" in that line from Ferris Bueller's Day Off and blame Ferris creator John Hughes...
On a Bender

"Who has to go to the lavatory?"

By Jennifer Medina
May 18, 2006

Chances are you already know everything there is to know about The Breakfast Club, so there's nothing I can say that hasn't been said a million times already. It's a classic, and rightly so. Since its debut more than 20 years ago, teen movies have gotten brasher, sexier and more...
It's Dream Time

Hughes High looks so easy

By Jennifer Medina
Mar 16, 2006

Here's a tried-and-true fact—every girl in America (including myself), will always love Jake Ryan. Damn that Sammy Baker Davis Jr. girl. In the real world, she never would have ended up with such a hottie, but you believed it could happen in Sixteen Candles. While honored with the title of...
The Force Runs Its Course

By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
Nov 3, 2005

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Lucasfilm Ltd.) The final installment of the Star Wars saga actually plays better at home: You can watch it, then pop in the original trilogy and chart the evolution of Anakin, and have it all actually make sense. Though it's still a...
Nope

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

By Merritt Martin
Mar 3, 2005

Nope is like the love child of The Replacements, the Plimsoles, the Rave-Ups, Furniture and Lindsay Buckingham. Toss in that their next album is being produced by Richard Lloyd (of Television and Rocket From the Tombs fame), and their sound is all the more attractive. Cousins Herman Suede and Christopher...
The Geek

Anthony Michael Hall grows up

By Robert Wilonsky
Jun 3, 2004

Anthony Michael Hall talks of The Struggle, the decade-long odyssey during which he auditioned for everything and got only the occasional something. Some of it was primo stuff, a small role in a good adaptation of a great play (Six Degrees of Separation) or the chance to play Bill Gates...
Teen beaten

Takes or leave this anachronistic teen film

By Robert Wilonsky
Mar 23, 2000

Even the press kit is up-front about it: Whatever It Takes is less a film than a product of marketing research and demographic considerations. It might as well have been written on a bar graph, so fetishistic is it about making sure it appeals to teens and their parents --...
The New School

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

By Glenn Gaslin
May 20, 1999

Good morning, children, and welcome back to class. You may have noticed that a new student has joined us. Or, actually, quite a few new students. About 60 million, to take a quick guess. Say hi, everybody. Now, they might look familiar, they might look a little like the teenagers...
The manic professor

This antiquated vehicle becomes a showcase for digital effects

By Andy Klein
Nov 27, 1997

First, The Heiress was unofficially remade as Washington Square, then The Big Carnival as Mad City, and The Day of the Jackal as The Jackal. But now we get The Absent-Minded Professor, all dressed up in new threads, as Flubber. In this frenzy of plundering the past, is nothing sacred?...