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The Breakfast Club at 40: The Story Behind the Quintessential Coming-of-Age Teen Drama of the 80s

February 17, 2025 by admin

As the film turns 40, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind John Hughes’ 80s classic The Breakfast Club… John Hughes is a name that is synonymous with coming-of-age teen dramas and the 1980s era but one film has always stood out as one of the filmmaker’s best efforts and that is The Breakfast Club. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, John Hughes, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, The Breakfast Club

John Hughes classics get Pop! Vinyl makeovers from Funko

December 15, 2024 by Amie Cranswick

Funko is paying tribute to the legendary John Hughes with a new wave of Pop! Movies vinyl figures from four of his 80’s classics, and featuring Ferris, Cameron, and Sloane from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Allison, Andrew, John, Brian, and Claire from The Breakfast Club, Andie and Duckie from Pretty in Pink, Jake and Samantha […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Toys Tagged With: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Funko, Pretty in Pink, sixteen candles, The Breakfast Club

The Must Watch School-Set Movies

September 10, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Summer is over and it’s back to class with our must-watch school-set movies… Hands up if you’re a parent of school-aged kids? Have you counted the minutes until your little cherubs return to school? Is that lazy and moody teenager making you go crazy? Have you spent an absolute fortune? Then don’t worry, as we […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Back To School, Carrie, Class of 1984, Donnie Darko, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Grease, Matilda, Not Another Teen Movie, Only The Strong, Risky Business, School of Rock, Superbad, The Breakfast Club

A Lasting Final Shot

June 3, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the power a film’s final shot can have… There are many aspects that will make a piece of cinema stay long in your mind. You give yourself over to a film sometimes. It sweeps you away. Moments leave particularly strong and inedible impressions. One thing that many films will strive for […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Heat, Ivan's Childhood, No Country for Old Men, Psycho, Rocky, Runaway Train, Stalker, Taxi Driver, The Breakfast Club, The Conversation, The Godfather, The Shining, The Terminator, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Withnail and I

Is Reassessing Old Films a Good Thing?

April 8, 2018 by Neil Calloway

Neil Calloway wonders if judging films by today’s standards is worthwhile… It’s started, and we’re only going to see more of it; the reassessing of old films according to today’s political climate. It’s inevitable, and if we’re honest, has been going on in other ways for years. Think of all those articles about films that […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Neil Calloway Tagged With: John Hughes, Molly Ringwald, The Breakfast Club

Ready Player One pays homage to classic movie posters

March 7, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

A batch of new posters have arrived online for Steven Spielberg’s hotly-anticipated adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One which pay homage to The Matrix, The Goonies, The Lost Boys, The Iron Giant, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Risky Business, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, Bullitt, The Breakfast Club, Labyrinth and Beetlejuice; check them […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, Blade Runner, Bullitt, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Ready Player One, Risky Business, The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, The Iron Giant, The Lost Boys, The Matrix

Alternative Spider-Man: Homecoming posters pay homage to The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Taxi Driver

July 15, 2017 by Amie Cranswick

Nerdist have uneviled three new alternate posters for Sony and Marvel’s superhero blockbuster Spider-Man: Homecoming which pay homage to 80’s classics The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, along with Martin Scorsese’s 1976 crime drama Taxi Driver; check them out here… SEE ALSO: Spider-Man: Homecoming 4K Collector’s Edition set and Blu-ray revealed A young Peter […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Marvel, Marvel Cinematc Universe, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Taxi Driver, The Breakfast Club

What is the modern teen movie?

May 9, 2017 by Henry Bevan

Henry Bevan on the modern teen movie… Jerky jocks; nebbish nerds; the girl next door who is unfairly called a whore; the hot girl; the bitchy cheerleader; the ugly girl who’s actually a swan; the self-loathing teachers; teachers who sleep with students; teachers who are bad at their jobs; crowded school corridors; cool kids who […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Henry Bevan, Movies, Television Tagged With: 13 Reasons Why, American Pie, Clueless, Mean Girls, sixteen candles, The Breakfast Club, The Duff, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The One Thing Spider-Man: Homecoming Needs To Do To Be Great

June 22, 2016 by Henry Bevan

Henry Bevan on Spider-Man: Homecoming and what it needs to do to be great… In Spider-Man 2 Peter Parker’s (Tobey Maguire) childhood home is facing foreclosure but Aunt May (Rosemary Harris) insists on giving him her last 20 bucks, only for his landlord to snatch it a way. Peter is broke and Spider-Man keeps him that […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Henry Bevan, Movies Tagged With: Captain America: Civil War, Donald Glover, John Hughes, Jon Watts, Logan Marshall-Green, Martin Starr, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pretty in Pink, Sam Raimi, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Breakfast Club, Tom Holland

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