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John Hughes

June 2024

  • Michael Anthony Hall

    ‘My life was surreal’: Anthony Michael Hall on John Hughes, therapy and his ‘wild ass’ childhood

  • 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’

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

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’

August 2018

  • Winona Ryder, second from right, as Veronica Sawyer in Heathers (1988).

    Thanks be to Heathers – a film that helped make me who I am

    Hanna Flint
  • Christian Slater and Winona Ryder

    The legacy of Heathers 30 years on: 'Donald Trump is like a big Heather'

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

July 2017

  • The Thing, from 2015’s Fantastic Four.

    Film blog
    Big in Albania … countries that gave film flops a second life

    The superheroes saved by Mexico, the video-game spinoff that became China’s 12th biggest movie ever, and the British comedian worshipped by a secretive communist nation. We remember the films somebody else loved

December 2016

  • The Breakfast Club - 1985<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal/REX/Shutterstock (5884966q) Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall The Breakfast Club - 1985 Director: John Hughes Universal USA Film Portrait Comedy/Drama Breakfast Club

    Literary Mixtapes by Electric Literature
    Literary mixtape: Jason Diamond's perfect teen movie soundtrack

    Having once attempted to track down John Hughes and write his biography, Jason Diamond is a huge fan of teen movies. Here, the author of Searching for John Hughes curates the perfect film soundtrack

November 2016

  • ‘We thought the song didn’t suit us. We had delusions of being ultra-hip’ … Simple Minds in the 80s.

    How we made
    Simple Minds: how we made Don't You (Forget About Me)

    Jim Kerr: ‘I did the big la-la-la-la-la ending because I didn’t have any lyrics’

May 2016

  • Everybody Wants Some!!

    Everybody Wants Some!! review – jocks away

    The muscle-bound freshmen of Richard Linklater’s joyful 80s campus movie reveal occasional complexity

April 2016

  • Kevin Costner

    Review anything
    Proms, Kevin Costner's "English" accent, a smiley face, the onion – we review anything

    Every Friday we apply critical attention to things that don’t normally get it. This is an important function that might hold civilisation together. Or, more likely, not. Drop your suggestions for reviews in the comments or tweet them to @guideguardian

May 2015

  • Pretty in Pink

    Life Moves Pretty Fast review – a funny, absorbing study of 80s Hollywood

  • Strange Names

    New band of the week
    New band of the Week: Strange Names (No 52)

March 2015

  • Fashion icons … Bender, Andrew, Allison, Claire and Brian in The Breakfast Club.

    Breakfast Club at 30: why Bender, Allison, Brian and co are still fashion icons

    The iconic brat-pack movie may be three decades old – but designers still turn to it for inspiration. Here’s why

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

    Together with John Hughes, Molly Ringwald created a character that is plain and beautiful, confident and insecure, wise and foolish – a credible teenager, in other words, but one who has learned some crucial life lessons

April 2014

  • Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

    Bill & Ted's 25th birthday: party on, dudes!

  • John Cusack and Jack Black

    Smell the vinyl: six of the best fictional record shops

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