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August 4, 2025
Here are all 8 John Hughes movies, ranked. Watching John Hughes movies is almost a guarantee of nostalgia, warmth, and
John Hughes Movies Ranked
June 29, 2024
Here are John Hughes movies ranked worst to best, including The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
December 12, 2017
What makes a classic holiday movie? In partnership with ScreenCraft, MovieMaker explores the essential ingredients that cooked up the holiday…
July 14, 2017
We unpack what Criterion's new edition of Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World can teach moviemakers about depicting teen angst, alienation and…
March 2, 2017
Ry Russo-Young’s YA bestseller adaptation, Before I Fall, has high schooler, Sam (Zoey Deutch) reliving the same day over and…
February 13, 2017
I was up for the directing job on the feature Fist Fight for New Line Cinema. All I needed to…
October 24, 2016
"Theme" is a term that gets tossed around a great deal in the film world. So what do we mean…
August 7, 2009
I can't say I was a big fan of John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club—though, to be fair,…