John Hughes revisited

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The Great Outdoors: John Hughes Revisited

Posted 3 years ago

Chris People forget how movies were consumed in the eighties and nineties. Now, you can stream millions of titles, which are available at the click of a button. But, back in the day, you had to rely on whatever was...

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Weird Science (1985) Revisited – John Hughes Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Chris 1985’s Weird Science is an outlier in John Hughes’s filmography. Celebrated for his grounded teen comedies like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, Weird Science is something different. It’s an all-out romp and perhaps the only...

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Pretty in Pink (1986) Revisited: John Hughes Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Here at JoBlo Originals, we’re celebrating Valentine’s Day with perhaps the greatest teen romance of all time, John Hughes’s 1986 classic Pretty in Pink, starring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy and Jon Cryer. There’s a lot about this classic that...

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The Breakfast Club (1985) Revisited: Comedy Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Chris None of John Hughes’s films are quite as iconic as 1985’s The Breakfast Club. Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall play the teenage archetypes we know so well – the athlete, the rebel,...

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Sixteen Candles (1984) – John Hughes Revisited

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Flashback to the year 1984. John Hughes was coming off the one-two punch of National Lampoon’s Vacation and Mr. Mom. His scripts for both made him a hot property, and he was able to parlay that success into a...

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Mr. Mom (1983): John Hughes Revisited

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Long before Michael Keaton was Batman, he was a gifted comedian making a name for himself in big-screen comedies. Fresh off his debut in Ron Howard’s hit Night Shift, Keaton became one of the biggest comedy stars of the...

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National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) – John Hughes Revisited

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Welcome back to John Hughes Revisited! This week, we’re packing up the car and hitting the road as we embark on a trip to Walley World with the Griswold family in National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)! Released 38 years ago,...