Project X (retro trailer)
Ferris Bueller Joins the Air Force. With monkeys.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
watch it: Ferris Bueller sells Hondas
I feel like Ralphie being told by Little Orphan Annie to drink my Ovaltine. A lousy commercial?
meta retro ad: Ferris Bueller is back!
Ferris sold out, and is totally into isms these days, with consumerism right at the top of the list. That’s why he’s appearing in this teaser for a Super Bowl ad.
question of the weekend: What great things will future generations miss out on?
You’ve heard, I’m sure, about the Mindset List that Beloit College in Wisconsin distributes every year to clue in its professors about the assumptions and prejudices of the incoming freshmen for the new academic year…
Friday night fortune cookie: Ferris Bueller says…
“A person should not believe in an ism. He should believe in himself.”
Take Me Home Tonight (review)
Hey, I love Duran Duran, too, but 80s nostalgia as a thing is so ten years ago… just about the time that the 33-year-old Topher Grace would have been the right age to play the just-out-of-college, I-dunno-what-to-do-with-myself whiner he plays here…
question of the day: What movie would be the most horrifying one to adapt to a stage musical?
The other day I lamented the West End arrival next year of Ghost: The Musical. Today in the Telegraph there’s a review of the new stage version of Flashdance, and it ain’t pretty…
question of the day: If Eric Stoltz could have been Marty McFly, what other 80s movies might have been differently cast?
Did you know that Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future? I seem to vaguely recall hearing something along those lines, but now there’s video evidence… because Robert Zemeckis actually shot for weeks before deciding that Stoltz was wrong for the role.
question of the day: Has Ben Stein ever been this funny before?
Ben Stein — Nixon administration criminal turned Ferris Bueller actor turned game show host turned conservative blowhard — has been let go as a columnist by the paper of record. In The American Spectator, Stein explains why he was “Expelled from The New York Times” — it started when he made an extended cinematic argument … more…
question of the day: What’s your favorite John Hughes movie or movie moment?
Film writer-director-producer John Hughes died yesterday, of a sudden heart attack in New York, where he was visiting. He was only 59. I am precisely the right age to have felt as if Hughes was speaking directly to me with his teen-angst comedies in the 1980s. (Which Breakfast Club character was I? I’d have been … more…
