It’s Samantha Baker’s (Molly Ringwald) 16th birthday. Unfortunately for her, it’s also the day before her older sister’s wedding, causing her entire family to forget about her birthday. To make matters worse, she has a crush on a popular, good…
A fascinating and sometimes sad biopic, Love & Mercy is about the life of the musical genius Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Dropping the formulaic rags-to riches style, director Bill Pohlad instead bounces back between two significant points in…
The Sure Thing was Rob Reiner’s second feature film, shot just after his dazzling debut, This Is Spinal Tap. At a time when most teen comedies focused on delivering copious amounts of crude humor while sex crazed teenagers desperately tried…
In the mid 1980’s—a decade populated by teen-sex-comedies—writer/director Savage Steve Holland made a name for himself by combining animation and video. In his most popular comedies, Holland utilized a quirky style that made his romantic comedies some of the most…
Sony Pictures | 1986 | 88 mins. | R Based on the Stephen King short story “The Body,” the 1986 film Stand By Me is suffused with the magic of childhood. Expertly for the screen by Raynold Gideon and Bruce…
20th Century Fox | 1989 | 100 mins. | Rated PG-13 Was 1989 really twenty years ago? I suddenly feel very old. A year away from graduating high school, I spent many a Friday night at the local Cineplex watching…