Tag: Brat Pack

Documentary Review: Andrew McCarthy’s BRATS (2024)—an amusing, introspective walk down memory lane, especially for Gen Xers

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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me? Yeah, tell that to Andrew McCarthy. The fact is, words can hurt and they have the power to impact us for years, even decades. For McCarthy, these two words had stayed with him for nearly 40 years: brat pack. It’s a term …

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Some Kind of Wonderful – my fave John Hughes movie

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80s iconic director John Hughes died Thursday of a heart attack whilst taking a walk in New York City. He was only 59. I can't help feeling nostalgic as growing up in the 80s, I watched a lot of his films: The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink. He was a visionary who has …

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