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Molly Ringwald

June 2024

  • L-r: Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost and Rob Lowe in Behind the Candelabra.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers

  • A black-and-white image of seven young men and women seated and standing at a bistro table with a checked tablecloth and roundback chairs, laughing uproariously.

    Looking back on life in the Brat Pack: ‘It never existed in any real way’

April 2023

  • Molly Ringwald

    The G2 interview
    ‘I was projected as the sweet American girl next door. It wasn’t me’: Molly Ringwald bites back

    Hollywood success in the 80s was so unpleasant that Ringwald moved to France. Since then she has made a jazz album, written a novel and translated a memoir about Last Tango in Paris star Maria Schneider

November 2022

  • The soundtrack to Pretty in Pink gave the Psychedelic Furs a huge hit in 1986.

    The power of music in John Hughes films: ‘When you hear those songs you see those moments’

    The director’s movies provided an intense emotive soundtrack to teenagers’ lives. A new box set collects tracks from his best-loved films, by artists such as Simple Minds, the Smiths and OMD

July 2021

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    The dweeb and the hot girl: Matt Hancock’s affair belongs to an 80s movie

    Hadley Freeman
    Who knows, perhaps Hancock’s entire career was just a ploy to entice his university crush

September 2020

  • ‘It isn’t my kind of film’ … Richard Butler and the band perform in 1987.

    How we made
    Pretty in Pink: the Psychedelic Furs on how they made a pop classic

    ‘The title means someone who’s naked. It’s not about someone wearing pink. So the film had nothing to do with what the song was about. It made it trite’

September 2019

  • Philippe Besson Portrait Session<br>PARIS, FRANCE - 01/09/2019: Writer Philippe Besson poses during a portrait session in Paris, France on 01/09/2019. (Photo by Eric Fougere/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Lie With Me by Philippe Besson review – a French bestseller

    Full of Proustian echoes, this story of gay adolescence deals with complex issues of class, shame and secrecy

August 2019

  • Philippe Besson.

    Philippe Besson: ‘I told Macron he had zero chance of becoming president’

    The celebrated novelist on his friendship with France’s first couple and his latest book, a French Brokeback Mountain. Plus, a Q&A with translator Molly Ringwald

November 2018

  • A gleam in the eye … Keanu Reeves in Siberia.

    Siberia review – Keanu Reeves ices up as diamond geezer

    Reeves finds selling gems to the mob is trickier than he’d like in this violent romantic thriller, also starring Molly Ringwald

April 2018

  • Teenage dreams: the soulful phenomenon of coming of age films

    The best coming of age films
    'When you grow up your heart dies': how the coming-of-age film got smart

    From Pretty in Pink to Dirty Dancing and Say Anything - Hadley Freeman describes the emotions that got her hooked on films about growing up
  • The Breakfast Club, 1985. Star Molly Ringwald has called out the film’s director for the dubious sexual politics the film normalised

    Times move pretty fast! Rewatching 80s favourites in the age of #MeToo

    Molly Ringwald’s reappraisal of The Breakfast Club has thrown an uneasy light on other 80s classics, with their casual treatment of rape and abuse, dodgy sexual politics and breezy paedophilia. We look at 10 of the worst with fresh eyes
  • The Breakfast Club was one of the 80s films that propelled Molly Ringwald to stardom.

    Molly Ringwald says The Breakfast Club is troubling in #MeToo era

    Actor who starred in popular 1980s film advocates critical stance towards art of past

March 2016

  • Pretty In Pink.

    Pretty in Pink 30 years on: a class war built with clothes

    From Princess Diana hair to the Tories at the weekend look, John Hughes’ film used fashion to illustrate the divisions between the characters

November 2015

  • New band of the week- MRCH (No 81)

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: MRCH (No 81)

    Arizona band dabbling in everything from 60s girl group pop to 80s shoegaze manage to create something very modern

November 2014

  • Jon Cryer and Molly Ringwald in a film still from 1986's Pretty In Pink.

    Clip joint
    Clip joint: high school proms

    Tshepo Mokoena picks some of the best prom film scenes. Which would top your own list?

October 2014

  • Molly Ringwald sings jazz at the Carlyle

    Molly Ringwald's jazz show at the Carlyle is the ultimate nostalgia trip

    Pretty in Pink star and newly minted Guardian columnist embarks on New York residency running through 18 October

July 2014

  • Andie (Molly Ringwald), Blane (Andrew McCarthy) and Duckie (Jon Cryer) in Pretty in Pink.

    Role model
    Why I'd like to be ... Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink

  • Union Chapel

    Experience
    The Moth, the US storytelling organisation coming to the UK for the first time – video trailer

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