Molly Ringwald
Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers
Two 80s teen dramas made overnight stars of a band of young actors including Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore and Rob Lowe – and Andrew McCarthy, whose new documentary looks back on those years
Guy Lodge
29, Jun, 2024 @7:00 AM
Looking back on life in the Brat Pack: ‘It never existed in any real way’
Actor Andrew McCarthy’s documentary looks at his time in 80s Hollywood and the pitfalls of living underneath a label
Radheyan Simonpillai
12, Jun, 2024 @7:02 AM
‘I was projected as the sweet American girl next door. It wasn’t me’: Molly Ringwald bites back
Hollywood success in the 80s was so unpleasant that Ringwald moved to France. Since then she has made a jazz album, written a novel and translated a memoir about Last Tango in Paris star Maria Schneider
Zoe Williams
24, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM
The power of music in John Hughes films: ‘When you hear those songs you see those moments’
The director’s movies provided an intense emotive soundtrack to teenagers’ lives. A new box set collects tracks from his best-loved films, by artists such as Simple Minds, the Smiths and OMD
Michael Hann
10, Nov, 2022 @4:00 PM
The dweeb and the hot girl: Matt Hancock’s affair belongs to an 80s movie | Hadley Freeman
Who knows, perhaps Hancock’s entire career was just a ploy to entice his university crush
Hadley Freeman
10, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM
Pretty in Pink: the Psychedelic Furs on how they made a pop classic
‘The title means someone who’s naked. It’s not about someone wearing pink. So the film had nothing to do with what the song was about. It made it trite’
Interviews by Dave Simpson
21, Sep, 2020 @1:16 PM
Lie With Me by Philippe Besson review – a French bestseller
Full of Proustian echoes, this story of gay adolescence deals with complex issues of class, shame and secrecy
Tessa Hadley
06, Sep, 2019 @7:58 AM
Philippe Besson: ‘I told Macron he had zero chance of becoming president’
The celebrated novelist on his friendship with France’s first couple and his latest book, a French Brokeback Mountain. Plus, a Q&A with translator Molly Ringwald
Kim Willsher
18, Aug, 2019 @8:00 AM
Siberia review – Keanu Reeves ices up as diamond geezer
Reeves finds selling gems to the mob is trickier than he’d like in this violent romantic thriller, also starring Molly Ringwald
Cath Clarke
15, Nov, 2018 @10:00 AM
'When you grow up your heart dies': how the coming-of-age film got smart
From Pretty in Pink to Dirty Dancing and Say Anything - Hadley Freeman describes the emotions that got her hooked on films about growing up
Hadley Freeman
28, Apr, 2018 @6:00 AM
Times move pretty fast! Rewatching 80s favourites in the age of #MeToo
Molly Ringwald’s reappraisal of The Breakfast Club has thrown an uneasy light on other 80s classics, with their casual treatment of rape and abuse, dodgy sexual politics and breezy paedophilia. We look at 10 of the worst with fresh eyes
Hadley Freeman
13, Apr, 2018 @5:00 AM
Molly Ringwald says The Breakfast Club is troubling in #MeToo era
Actor who starred in popular 1980s film advocates critical stance towards art of past
Nicola Slawson
07, Apr, 2018 @1:23 PM
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