John Hughes

PRETTY IN BOOKS

The Brat-Packer is a novelist

ParaNorman

SLUDGE MATCH

Metal in a meatgrinder

Desert Flower: A Tale of Genital Mutilation With Oddball '80s Humor

MAKE ME LAUGH

All the comedic greats came from somewhere

The Voice Apologizes to John Hughes

This Week in the Voice: The Endless Bummer of Staten Island

​All the way out on the south shore of Staten Island lies a quiet, tucked-away community called the Cedar Grove Beach Club, a "poor man's Bermuda" for the few Staten Islanders who knew about it and summered there. That's all over now, as the city's Parks Department plans to turn the 200-acre p ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Jamey Johnson, Superchunk, Brandon Flowers, the Walkmen, and More

Jamey Johnson: Bon Iver, only good! Photo by James Minchin.​In this week's Village Voice, Chuck Eddy on the charms of schizophrenic stoner country guy Jamey Johnson, Jessica Hopper reviews Superchunk's excellent new Majesty Shredding, Ryan Dombal talks with Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, an ... More >>

TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN

The films that are part of our lives

TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN

The films that are part of our lives

Live: Beach Fossils And Woven Bones Bashing Away At Bruar Falls

​Beach Fossils prior to the grand, violent finale. Pics by Chris Becker.​Beach Fossils/Woven Bones/The Beets Bruar Falls Thursday, July 1 You get to like it, the rudimentary BOOM-BOOM-THWACK, BOOM-BOOM-THWACK of a two-piece stand-up drummer -- no flash, no cymbals, no particular variety ... More >>

IN THE HOUSE

Bill Forsyth resurfaces at Film Forum

The DeLorean's a Jacuzzi and the '80s Are Back in Hot Tub Time Machine

Where we're going, we don't need iPads

Are High-Stakes Tests Harming NYC Schools?

Are No Child Left Behind and Bloomberg's report cards pushing schools to go grade-grubbing?

AHHHHHHH!

Kevin McCallister gets the Raspberry treatment

Photo: Echo and the Bunnymen's Mercury Lounge Setlist

​Bands like this one just don't play venues as small as the Mercury Lounge. And yet there was Echo and the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch, a chatty jester clad in black shades and black coat, warming up for a November Hammerstein gig by playing a tiny LES room on a frigid Saturday evening, band in t ... More >>

Times: No Big if Kids Chat, Watch Movies While They Study

​The New York Times has doctor and expert Perri Klass reassure us (yes, even the childless -- "Certain subjects make self-righteous parents of us all") that all this texting and computing and what-not isn't making children into dumbbells. Adults may not thrive while multitasking -- or, as our ... More >>

MY (UN)SUPER SWEET 16

No one knew teens better than John Hughes

Drew Barrymore's Directorial Debut, Whip It

Week in Review: There's Only One Viable Avant-Garde Art Form Nowadays, And It's Called Indie Rock

Sam Horine​In the week a Brooklyn indie-rock band either did or didn't kick a puppy in Prospect Park (sweat-soaked August news cycle, we see you), we amused ourselves making Rick Ross "Yo Mamma" jokes and watching rap panic take New York as 50 Cent did, and then didn't, shoot your grandmother. ... More >>

Booze News: Good Beer for Tough Times; Dry Vermouth for a Globalized Palate

​Emily Wines talks about her life as a master sommelier. It involves lots of flights, sometimes getting caught with a corkscrew in her purse, and occasionally having to recite transportation security laws to customs agents to get through airport security with all her beloved bottles. [NY Times ... More >>

So Who Should Cover What at This John Hughes Tribute at the Cake Shop on Saturday?

This, of course, could be really good, or really bad. "An original," in particular, sounds ominous. But it did get us thinking about our dream version of this show. What kind of New York talent is available to do covers of songs from John Hughes soundtracks?

There Is Now A Shrine in the Spot Where John Hughes Died

​Morbid, but kind of uplifting, too: Movieline's Stu VanAirsdale, convinced that "a shrine was in order," went looking for the spot where 59-year-old film director John Hughes suffered a heart attack last week. "Witnesses at the scene told Movieline he crossed south, stumbled to the water valv ... More >>

Week in Review: All I Have Left Are My Memories and This Copy of The Razor's Edge Signed by Asher Roth

Photo of Jim Jones taunting hipsters by Rebecca Smeyne​ In the week Jim Jones put ten thousand dollars on a three-on-three basketball tournament sponsored by Converse and barred to the media, we got up in there anyway, and brought you the hilarious play-by-play. Take that, shoe company. Gera ... More >>

Molly Ringwald Salutes John Hughes

​The actress Molly Ringwald has written a lovely tribute to the deceased filmmaker John Hughes in the Times today, in which she remembers the movies on which they worked together--she calls Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club the director's "most deeply personal expressions"--and recalls wh ... More >>

Listening to John Hughes

​Jim DeRogatis has probably penned the definitive thing so far on John Hughes the music fan, complete with the eye-popping detail that while in Chicago, and "well into his prime years as a filmmaker, he loved nothing more than haunting the racks of vinyl at the old Wax Trax record store on Lin ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic by ethanvk. Well, our week was awful, but apparently we were in good company. Mayor Bloomberg came up with a wide-ranging, expensive transit plan including crosstown buses that would move slower than ever. He slapped back Bill Thompson's schools charges -- not convincingly to ... More >>

Week in Review: Costumes Are Relatively Minimal But There Is No Nudity Involved

This kind of behavior is really unacceptable. APW photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week a shiny pair of crispy white shoes ventured out to New Jersey and All Points West, never to return, we joined the rest of the rainsoaked masses in saluting the Beastie Boys, who weren't there, though they di ... More >>

John Hughes, 1950-2009

​A lot of folks in their forties will be hauling out their fingerless gloves, vintage hats, taffeta and Simple Minds albums when they hear that John Hughes has died, apparently of a heart attack while walking with his family in New York, at 59. As a director, writer, and producer Hughes create ... More >>

Dick Move Has a New Teengirl Fantasy 12-Inch, Which Isn't Nearly As Pervy As It Sounds

If you haven't had the pleasure of stumbling onto the blog Pukekos, you should. Brooklyn's B.J. Rubin is a meticulous documenter of underground music from the past decade or so, and routinely offers up digital downloads of long lost releases ranging from an SST Sonic Youth CD with no paper trail to ... More >>

I Love You, Beth Cooper As Funny as a Hit and Run

Bart Got a Room May Be the Year's Most Unambitious Comedy

Prototypical Sex Drive Doesn't Miss a Motif

Even When It's Ripping Off Juno and The Hills, American Teen Is Fascinating

High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of this 'documentary'

AC Newman on Rock Writers, Dan Bejar's Dick

In da Club

'Nearing Grace'

Maneuvers in the Dark

Minor major artist serves up his long-awaited two-CD complimentary hospitality suite

Film

Feeding Frenzy

Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

The Lap Dance Is Free, but Only If You Pay for the Dud Date Movie

The '80s Are Gone, but the Joke's the Same—Pretty in Pink

Music

Expired Ham

Love in Bloom

A Seminar

Teen Angels

Music

Circling the Drain

She's All That

Reach the Rock