‘Great Outdoors’ (1988) among Hughes’ most quotable works
Hughes Day Tuesday (Movie review): Deutch, Hughes, Aykroyd and Candy join forces for a simple but hilarious tale of family vacation foibles.
‘Great Outdoors’ (1988) among Hughes’ most quotable works
‘The Way Back’ puts on full-court press of emotions
Movie review: Ben Affleck excels in this simple but powerful story of an alcohol addict finding redemption as a basketball coach.
‘Our Friends from Frolix 8’ (1970) takes on spy state
PKD flashback (Book review): Dick launches his thematic police state/drug war trilogy in thoughtful and entertaining fashion.
‘Breaking Bad’ Season 3 (2010) digs into black market
Blogging ‘Bad’ (TV review): The most memorable moral dilemmas crop up for Walter and Jesse in the third season of Gilligan’s series.
‘Catwoman’ (2004) is not the cat’s pajamas
Superhero Saturday (Movie review): Although this bizarre “Batman” spinoff is as bad as you’ve heard, Halle Berry shouldn’t be blamed.
‘They Live’ (1988) a padded-out ‘Twilight Zone’ episode
Frightening Friday (Movie review): Carpenter’s alien-infiltration metaphor is so thinly veiled it’s hardly a metaphor at all.
In ‘Escape from L.A.’ (1996), Carpenter adds humor
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): John Carpenter essentially remakes “Escape from New York” 15 years later, but with more humor.
‘Vegas Vacation’ (1997) finds laughs without Hughes
Hughes Day Tuesday (Movie review): The Griswold family saga shows it can be funny without John Hughes in this fourth entry.
PKD teams with Nelson in ‘Ganymede Takeover’ (1967)
PKD flashback (Book review): Dick collaborates with his friend Ray Nelson for a more traditional, but still weird, SF novel.
‘Breaking Bad’ Season 2 (2009) embraces dark comedy
Blogging ‘Bad’ (TV review): “Breaking Bad” Season 2 embraces its dark comedy side with the back-and-forth between Walter and Jesse.