john hughes
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6 Shows and Movies That Do Coming-of-Age Nostalgia Right (And 4 That Don’t)
Recapturing the magic of classic movies — or at least trying to — has been a staple of pop culture’s obsession with nostalgia, Stranger Things being one current example. Entertainment has a specific fixation with growing up pre-internet, something that can be evoked to make a meaningful impact, but can also come across as merely…
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The New Mutants Director Josh Boone Is Confident It’s a Comic Book Film Like No Other
Josh Boone’s The New Mutants is a movie years in the making. It’s also technically the final piece of the puzzle to 20th Century Studios’ massive franchise of X-Men cinematic spectacles that have been steadily drawing people into movie theatres for decades now. Sometimes the stories were great and sometimes they were patently awful.