Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ marked John Hughes’s first big step away from writing about teenage angst—and remains an essential holiday movie for many fans nearly 40 years after its ...

It was originally a tongue-in-cheek phrase she used to describe her songs, that eventually ... connection to the ‘80s, hence the Hughes homage. “John Hughes’ films create this whole world ...

If “Rebel Without a Cause” took teenagers onscreen seriously for the first time beginning in the 1950s, then John Hughes helped revitalize ... and I was lucky that in the movie there’s ...