News

Netflix’s slate will adjust for post-Halloween viewing as the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approach. The streamer’s catalog will begin to bulk up on Christmas flicks mid-month as well as round out its rotation of fall favorites.

Those in the mood for a romantic comedy can find Just Go With It, Sixteen Candles and Maid in Manhattan available Nov. 1 on the streamer. More serious films like A24’s The Whale and Whiplash starring Miles Teller will also land on Netflix at the beginning of the month.

The Fast and the Furious film franchise will arrive on Netflix midway through the month on Nov. 12. Emilia Pérez starring Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Karla Sofia Gascón will make its streaming debut Nov. 13 alongside a new Netflix original Christmas movie Hot Frosty starring Lacey Chabert, Dustin Milligan, Craig Robinson, Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause and more.

Several Netflix tentpoles like Outer Banks...

A topical historical drama depicting the creation of IVF; a paranoid thriller series starring Colman Domingo; a bracingly original crime musical, and awards contender, from Jacques Audiard; the second part of the final season of Cobra Kai; and a reverential big-screen adaptation of a Pulitzer-winning August Wilson play are some of the highlights among the new films and series hitting Netflix in November.

On Nov. 7, action and mystery drama Outer Banks returns to Netflix. The first half of season four ended with several cliff-hangers for the Pogues, many of which should be resolved, to some degree, in the second half of the season. Over on Kildare Island, Rudy Pankow’s JJ probably gets the biggest bomb dropped on him when he learns that he’s not the son of his alcoholic and abusive father, Luke. The cast have promised “craziness” so expect some more jaw-dropping revelations.

In a big movie month for Netflix,...

Shailene Woodley initially didn’t realize her mother in The Secret Life of the American Teenager was actually an ’80s teen icon.

The actress revealed during a recent appearance on Vanity Fair’s “Scene Selection” that she had no idea who Molly Ringwald was when they first started working together on the ABC Family drama, which ran from 2008 to 2013. Ringwald played Anne Juergens, the mother of Woodley’s Amy Juergens, on the show.

“I didn’t know who Molly Ringwald was,” Woodley confessed. “I was 15, didn’t grow up with a TV. Like, every one of my parents’ friends were like, ‘You’re working with Molly Ringwald!’ And I was like, ‘What is her…. Why? I don’t get it.’ Because I had never seen Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles or any of her films.”

However, the Three Women actress said having not watched any of director John Hughes’ films...

What to Watch on Netflix This Weekend? The Best New Releases to Binge-Watch (November 1-3) - Main Image

Stuck in a binge-watching slump? Netflix has upcoming new theatrical releases coming this weekend. Here's a list of what to watch on Netflix from November 1 to 3.

From Zachary Levi's Harold and the Purple Crayon to classic Christmas romcoms, check out what's in store for the week!

5 Movies Netflix Released For Your Weekend BingeTime Cut (2024)Martha (2024)Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)Let Go (2024)

Netflix recently aired the documentary of one of America's most iconic self-made billionaires, Martha Stewart in October.

Right up that alley is the new international drama, Let Go, where estranged family ties attempt to rekindle their once-broken connection.

But if you're leaning more into fictional tales, Time Cut follows a teenager who gets to stop her sister from getting murdered in the future.

Meanwhile, Zachary Levi's latest release, Harold and the Purple Crayon...

What’s New on Netflix in November 2024: Must-Watch Shows and Movies! ( Photo Credit – Netflix )

Here is a list of all the shows and films released on Netflix in November 2024, which will help you organize your binge-watch plans.

Netflix will add several movies and television shows to its catalog in November 2024. The platform always amazes us with its massive collection of original content and licensed programming.

The streaming giant has much to offer in the upcoming month as several original series, reality shows, movies, documentaries, and animated shows are being released on the platform. Here is a comprehensive list of all the programs that will be dropped on Netflix in November 2024.

Trending Moana 2 Box Office: Sets New Record Ahead Of Its Release, Surpasses Inside Out 2 In Ticket Sales Smile 2: Unmasking the Real-Life Singer Who Inspired Skye Riley’s Character! All Shows and Films Being Released on Netflix in November...

The Netflix November 2024 originals, movies, and TV series have been revealed and can be viewed below. The streaming service has also announced the list of movies and TV series leaving next month.

The Netflix November 2024 schedule features such titles as A Man on the Inside, Arcane Season 2, Cobra Kai Season 6: Part 2, Chef’s Table: Volume 7, Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson, Emilia Pérez, Is it Cake? Holiday, and Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson.

Cobra Kai Season 6: Part 2

Also coming are Joy, Our Little Secret, Outer Banks Season 4: Part 2, The Piano Lesson, Pokémon Horizons: The Series Part 4, Rhythm + Flow Season 2, Senna, Spellbound, Sprint Part 2, The Madness, and more.

The November schedule includes the comedy specials Adrienne Iapalucci: Dark Queen, Anthony Jeselnik: Bones and All, and Unt. Adam Ray / Dr. Comedy Phil Special.

A Man on the Inside Netflix November 2024 Schedule

November Tba

A Man on the Inside...

Note: This story contains spoilers from the “Nobody Wants This” finale.

As Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” deepens its exploration into what happens when a rabbi (Adam Brody) and a shiksa (Kristen Bell) fall in love, Joanne and Noah face what seems to be an impossible issue in the finale. But as creator Erin Foster took inspiration from “Sixteen Candles” for that heart-melting ending, she and the show’s stars are “all in” on Season 2.

After Bell’s Joanne makes peace with converting to Judaism, the finale sees Joanne confess to Noah that she’s not ready to convert, leading her to break off their relationship amid Noah’s promotion to head rabbi. While Joanne might’ve considered converting as an “interesting … [and] exciting thing to add to [her] life,” Foster noted the seriousness of the decision “in practice,” saying she’s “just … not there yet.” In fact, those words are spoken by Joanne in the show.

"The Mick" creators and "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" writers Dave and John Chernin made their feature directorial debut with "Incoming," a coming-of-age sex comedy for Netflix about a group of incoming freshmen attending their first high school party. It's a raucous, raunchy, ridiculous night of debauchery featuring a 14-year-old running a control room of spy cams, plenty of upperclassmen making the beast with two backs in random open bedrooms, a science teacher desperately trying to appear cool by taking shots of Fireball and ripping bongs with students, fist fights leading to broken noses, accidentally falling into a K-hole, running from the cops, and drunkenly sharting out a night's worth of Taco Bell binge-eating.

"Incoming" is an attempt to merge the tradition of beloved high school stories with the over-the-top screwball sex comedies of the 1970s and '80s, and when it works, it really works. Similar to recent high...

The Marvel Comics character Thor officially made his live-action debut in the 1988 TV movie The Incredible Hulk Returns. But the year before that, Thor was a major presence in a teen comedy film about a group of youngsters having a wild night in downtown Chicago. The kids deal with gun-wielding car thieves, knife-wielding gang members, a homicidal tow truck driver, and a lot of other odd characters and dangerous situations. Their lives are put at risk on multiple occasions. And throughout, Thor’s iconic helmet is worn by an eight-year-old girl who looks up to the character… and believes he’s real. By the time the night is over, she might be proven right… Or maybe not. Whatever the case, there’s a whole lot of Thor in the 1987 film Adventures in Babysitting (watch it Here). And it’s time for it to be Revisited.

Adventures in Babysitting began with...

Gen X are a funny lot. Generally acknowledged to be made up of folks born between 1965 and 1980. This means Gen Xers were teenagers between the ’80s and the late ’90s. Crucially this also means it’s a generation that grew up without any meaningful internet and no mobile phones, who were used to relying on cinema trips to watch trailers, Blockbuster Video for our weekend viewing and highlighting the TV guide at Christmas.

Streaming services, of course, did not exist so movies we watched at the cinema, recorded off the telly and even potentially owned on VHS (if you were the Queen) became very precious in a way that something you caught on Netflix while you were looking at your phone are not. Every generation has movies that are iconic to them – here’s to the ones that shaped today’s 40-somethings+.

Before Sunrise (1995)

Richard Linklater’s naturalistic romance about...

The minute Mola Ram (Amrish Puri) sunk his digits into the chest of one very unfortunate Thuggee cultist and extracted his still-beating heart for his followers -- and moviegoers all over the world -- to see, the Motion Picture Association of America (now the Motion Picture Association) finally had to admit it had a ratings problem on its hands.

This horrific scene arrives halfway through Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," the kickoff film of the 1984 summer movie season, and as the sequel to 1981's box office champ "Raiders of the Lost Ark," easily the year's most anticipated release. Like its predecessor, it was sold as an all-ages adventure, which the MPA certified with a PG rating. For 12 years, PG suggested "Parental Guidance," though most parents treated the rating as a guarantee they could drop off their kids at the theater secure in the knowledge there would be no f-bombs,...

Claim to Fame did not hold back with the newest episode, which saw plenty of backstabbing and betrayal. After last week's episode saw Miguel leaving the house, who was next on the chopping block and did they get revealed in the end?

The next person the house went after was Adam, who was basically clueless when it came to who anyone in the house was related to. He even appeared to be unaware of movies and other shows people have appeared in. Even though he was in an alliance with Naomi, she wasn’t happy that he wasn’t helping her by providing her possible suggestions.

This alliance was already shaky and things were made worse when Adam tried to get help from others such as Danny. At this point, they could see he didn’t appear to be trying to do his own work in playing the game and...

John Hughes was a huge deal in the ’80s. As a director and screenwriter, he made some of the most iconic films of the decade and became known as the king of teen comedies. His movies, like Home Alone, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, totally defined that era.

Still from Weird Science (Universal Pictures)

But despite his impressive track record, one of his films showed a different side that Hughes might have been experimenting with. Robert Downey Jr., as part of the cast, ended up in one of the wildest scenes they ever made. The public only got to see something about it years after the film was released.

Robert Downey Jr. As A Pig In Weird Science Robert Downey Jr. in Weird Science (Universal Pictures)

Weird Science, released in 1985, stands as one of the classic films of the decade, even if it wasn’t...

Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, and the original MTV VJs will host “Brat Pack Weekend” on 80s on 8 (Ch. 8) in celebration of this summer’s hottest 80s documentary, “Brats.” Starting Friday, July 26, tune in to 80s on 8 as Andrew, who directed “Brats,” and Rob handpick their favorite 80s songs and provide behind-the-scenes stories about the documentary now streaming on Hulu.

80s on 880s pop, the original MTV VJs, and moreListen on the App

Listen on the App

“When we were making ‘Pretty in Pink,’” McCarthy says during the special, “John Hughes used to come to the set with a cassette recorder. And he’d have these little cassettes that he would just play. ‘Hey, guys, what do you think of this?’ And he did play. And he’d just play snippets of these songs. And we’d either give it a thumbs up or thumbs down. And a lot of those...

The Dark Knight trilogy remains the best superhero trilogy featuring the caped crusader played by Christian Bale. Christopher Nolan’s films took a complete departure from the campy and fantastical portrayal of the DC hero from previous iterations. The director took a very visceral and gritty approach to the character, including the use of practical effects as much as possible.

Christian Bale as Batman in The Dark Knight Rises | Warner Bros

The trilogy came to an end with The Dark Knight Rises with Batman battling his greatest threat yet in the form of Tom Hardy’s Bane. While Nolan took inspiration from the comics, he rarely lifted quotes from the comics. However, two dialogues from the film were directly from two beloved comics featuring the dark knight.

The Dark Knight Rises Featured Iconic Lines From Two Beloved Comic Issues

Batman gets pursued by cops after he makes his unexpected return...

Star of the 1984 hit 16 Candles, Anthony Michael Hall has given his approval of Selena Gomez's 15 Candles spin-off.

In 2022, Variety reported that Gomez, Tanya Saracho, and Gabriela Revilla Lugo are teaming up to develop a TV comedy based on John Hughes' Sixteen Candles. 

Titled 15 Candles, the half-hour Peacock series is set to follow four young Latinas in high school as they navigate feelings of invisibility and explore the transition from childhood during quinceañera season. 

Read full article on The Direct.

Editor’s note: this list was originally published in April 2023. It has since been updated with new entries.

Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear reeeeaaaderrrrr. Put this on your queue! Whether you’re a party animal fervently celebrating another spin around the sun — or an introvert quietly enjoying some well-earned Me Time — the day you were born should be wholly and unequivocally about you and what you want.

Just ask the Princess Aurora: a babbling baby girl-turned-titular “Sleeping Beauty” whose 1st and 16th birthdays were notoriously ruined by a woodland fairy with self-esteem issues. Or consider the plight of Tree: a screamingly funny (albeit slightly self-obsessed) sorority girl whose birthday warps into a time-loop slasher flick in the Blumhouse-produced “Happy Death Day.”

The best birthday movies can only be defined by the birthday-havers watching them. If spending your special day endlessly rewatching an old...

Who is Naomi’s celebrity relative on Season 3 of Claim to Fame? A clue last night was pretty spot on but how is she related to this person? More so, who exactly is her connection, and did any viewers guess correctly? Keep reading for more details.

Claim To Fame: Who Is Naomi’s Celebrity Relative?

The houseguests on Claim to Fame are still evaluating all of the clues that they have been given. Each player gives three with one being a lie. Yet, there is also the clue wall which contains a plethora of clues for all of the contestants. That can mean anything and everything. Now, on the outside, viewers have done their best to figure out who each person is related to. Season 3 just premiered on Wednesday, July 10th, and much of the cast has been unmasked. So, what about Naomi as her clue definitely related to The Brat Pack?...

Anthony Michael Hall was asked to be part of Brats but turned down the opportunity.

“I was asked to be a part of it, but you know what, I’ll tell you my attitude is you have to wish everyone success,” Hall told TV Insider. “It was just something I chose not to do because I’m always trying to move forward and make new things and do new stuff.”

Brats, a Hulu documentary from Andrew McCarthy released in June, explored the 1980s group of young actors who often appeared in coming-of-age films. Hall, a member of the group, appeared in 1985’s The Breakfast Club and 1984’s Sixteen Candles when he was just 15 and 16.

The documentary included appearances from actors Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Timothy Hutton, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe and Lea Thompson, along with writer-director Howard Deutch, producer Lauren Shuler and David Blum, the journalist who coined the term “Brat Pack.

Anthony Michael Hall was one of the notable Brat Pack figures not featured in Andrew McCarthy’s documentary Brats. Hall, who rose to fame in classic ’80s teen films like Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, spoke with TV Insider about why he decided not to participate in the documentary. “I was asked to be a part of it, but you know what, I’ll tell you my attitude is you have to wish everyone success. It was just something I chose not to do because I’m always trying to move forward and make new things and do new stuff,” Hall said. He added, “The truth is, I’ve had to embrace the John Hughes period of my life all my career, and I’m happy to do so, obviously, as I’ve hopefully relayed here. It’s never been an issue for me. But I also think time...

My guest on 20 Questions this week is Anthony Michael Hall.

In his latest film, Trigger Warning, which is streaming on Netflix, Hall stars as a gang-boss villain opposite Jessica Alba’s Special Forces commander character as she sets out to investigate her father’s untimely death.

Hall shot to fame in the 1980s as a part of the fabled “Brat Pack,” starring in such films as National Lampoon’s Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science when he was only a teenager. When the term “Brat Pack” appeared in a 1985 New York magazine story by journalist David Blum, with Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe and Judd Nelson on the issue’s cover, Hall fell under that label’s umbrella with a group that included Andrew McCarthy, Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore and Ally Sheedy.

Related: ‘Brats’ Review: Andrew McCarthy Reexamines The Brat Pack Legacy – Tribeca Festival

But when McCarthy approached Hall...

To celebrate the release of Trigger Warning, which is now streaming on Netflix, we sat down with star Anthony Michael Hall to find out more.

Chatting to Anthony, we discuss the lore of the script and why it was a different role for him, working with Jessica Alba and her full-guns blazing role, what attracts him to his roles and his continued love of acting, and why playing the bad guy is sometimes the better role to play.

We also have some time reminiscing about his legendary roles in Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and National Lampoon’s Vacation, as well as his later work on The Dark Knight with Christopher Nolan – including a very funny story about working with the late Heath Ledger – and why he’d dive at an appearance in the long-mooted Community movie.

You can watch our extended interview below:

Trigger Warning is now streaming...

He was a Hollywood sensation headlining on Saturday Night Live – and was still too young for a driving licence. But things did not always go well for The Breakfast Club actor

If your formative years were shaped in any way by the 80s teen movies of John Hughes – crushes, triumphant underdogs, and an everlasting hankering for American high-school lockers – those actors feel something akin to long-lost relatives. Anthony Michael Hall has had an enduring acting career doing other work: he’s a 56-year-old father and looks nothing like his teenage self. But he can’t escape the nerdy kid in Weird Science, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. If he is tired of reminiscing about films that are 40 years old, he doesn’t show it.

Hall has now been acting for 48 years. One of the biggest lessons his career has taught him is to “stay humble, because the journey will humble you.

Most film fans in the ‘80s got their first glimpse of John Cusack on the big screen as one of Anthony Michael Hall’s buddies who placed a bet that requires that their pal to secure a pair of Molly Ringwald’s panties in the John Hughes teen comedy “Sixteen Candles.” Hey, everyone has to start somewhere. Consider that his sister Joan was reduced to playing “Geek Girl” with an awkward brace around neck.

It was uphill from there as Cusack, with his ironically humorous takes on leading manhood, became one of the more in-demand male stars for the next two decades, working with such top-notch directors as John Sayles, Rob Reiner, Cameron Crowe, Stephen Frears, Spike Jonze, Woody Allen, Terrence Malick and Mike Newell. Somehow, Cusack has been under the radar when it comes to be nominated for major awards as a performer. But he has made considerable contributions...

Jessica Alba unleashes her inner Rambo in “Trigger Warning,” wherein her active U.S. military officer gets pulled homeward by tragedy, only to uncover corruption she’ll have to clean up before leaving again. Indonesian director Mouly Surya’s well-crafted first English-language feature is too formulaically contrived to qualify as “elevated genre” or to boast the personal stamp of her prior work. Still, it’s an entertaining, pacey action melodrama that should do well for Netflix, where it launches on June 21.

After two intriguingly conceived but somewhat vague initial features, Surya made an assertive impression with 2018’s “Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts.” That striking “feminist outlaw Western” distinctively juggled elements of revenge thriller, black comedy and character-driven social critique. Her more conventionally commercial American debut is another vengeance tale driven by a strong-willed, capable female protagonist. But this is also the first film on which Surya has not had a hand in the screenplay.

Science and technology have advanced significantly since the 80s. With things like Bluetooth technology, 3D printing, VR and Ar goggles, and the scary progression of AI, science could also get a lot weirder. And one person who wholeheartedly endorses a potential exploration into these possibilities with in a new film is Anthony Michael Hall. Hall, who capitalized on his awkward years in movies like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, had recently given his seal of approval to the notion that his classic film Weird Science could potentially receive a remake.

ScreenRant reports on Hall speaking about this topic in an interview with Inverse as he promotes his upcoming Netflix movie with Jessica Alba, Trigger Warning. While the idea of a remake has probably been thrown around in the past, Hall says he isn’t aware of any immediate plans for one. However, he mentions that he’s also not opposed to one.

The release of Andrew McCarthy’s Hulu documentary ‘Brats’ has sparked renewed interest in the Brat Pack—that group of young actors who starred in several iconic teen movies of the 1980s, like 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Sixteen Candles,' and 'The Breakfast Club.'

Those films often featured different configurations of Brat Pack members on screen—like Ally Sheedy, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, and Molly Ringwald—creating a web of connections between the actors. To visualize these relationships, one passionate fan has used IMDb data to create a diagram of the Brat Pack’s movie connections. Taking it a step further, the interactive visualization also connects the Brat Pack with two other groups of actors: the Rat Pack of the 1960s (Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, and others), and the Frat Pack of the 1990s (Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, and more comedic actors).

As part of its partnership with analytics platform Tableau, IMDb is sharing a huge movie dataset, allowing Tableau users to explore, create, and share data visualizations and infographics. In his visualization “Packs,” Zach Bowders has displayed the films of all three groups of actors to show their connections within their respective Packs, and how they connect to the other cohorts. According to Bowders, “Molly Ringwald is the key to everything.” Did you know she starred in films with members of both the Rat Pack (Joey Bishop in ‘Betsy’s Wedding’) and the Frat Pack (Ben Stiller in ‘Fresh Horses’)?

Explore the interactive “Packs” data viz here.

For even more Brat Pack data, check out this visualization created specifically about "The Breakfast Club."...

Parenting is one of the toughest challenges any human being could face; now imagine the infant is bigger than a house and can shoot lasers out of their eyes. This chaos is only a portion of what the characters in Ultraman: Rising face and Tokyo will never be the same. Here to talk about the hardships of Kaiju parenting are the directors of Ultraman: Rising, Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima, and featured members of the cast, Tamlyn Tomita, Gedde Watanabe, and Christopher Sean.

During our time with the cast and creators of Ultraman: Rising, we delved deep into everyone’s Ultraman history to determine if they felt pressure to honor the beloved superhero’s legacy. We also discuss the wonders of parenting and how you don’t need to have kids to act like a guardian to someone or something. The actors also share valuable lessons they learned while making...

For viewers of a certain age — or, perhaps more likely at this point, most ages — the term “Brat Pack” evokes nostalgia at its fondest. Movies like “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink” remain rites of passage for teenagers coming of age nearly 40 years later, and few would argue that the 1980s didn’t represent a high-water mark for teen movies. For actual members of that coterie of actors, it’s a little more complicated.

That’s especially true of Andrew McCarthy, who remains so conflicted about the term coined by David Blum in his June 10, 1985 cover story for New York that he made a documentary about it (after earlier publishing a memoir entitled “Brat”). A core Brat Packer whose filmography is headlined by the likes of “Pretty in Pink” and “St. Elmo’s Fire,” McCarthy has more recently stepped behind the camera and directed episodes of “Orange Is the New Black” and “13 Reasons Why,...

At times, watching Brats is like watching a high school reunion, if the high schoolers in question frequented the Sunset Strip in the 1980s and the theater teacher was John Hughes.

In the doc, director Andrew McCarthy asks members of the Brat Pack to reflect on and unpack what it meant to be a part of one of Hollywood’s most exclusive clubs — like the Frank Sinatra-fronted Rat Pack before them. There are moments of embarrassment, humility and catharsis, with apologies offered and new perspectives gained.

The “Brat Pack” was coined by journalist David Blum in a 1985 New York Magazine profile of Emilio Estevez that contextualized Estevez and peers like Judd Nelson and Rob Lowe within the new dynamics of a Hollywood that sought to cater to the tastes of younger audiences. It was a not-wholly-flattering portrait that at times painted the actors as undertrained and overestimated, scoring free...

Andrew McCarthy, creator of the Hulu documentary Brats, has Molly Ringwald to thank for his breakout role in Pretty in Pink. Here’s how she pushed for McCarthy to get the signature role over another well-known actor.

Molly Ringwald campaigned for Andrew McCarthy to get a ‘Pretty in Pink’ role

Molly Ringwald had signed on to star in Pretty in Pink as Andie. The 1986 film was written specifically for her by John Hughes. Previously, Ringwald starred in Hughes’ films Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club.

However, while the the role of Andie’s love interest, Blaine, was originally set to be offered to Charlie Sheen, Ringwald campaigned hard for McCarthy to get the role. In the book You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried, Ringwald convinced the filmmaker to hire Andrew McCarthy, whose previous credits include the films Class, Heaven Help Us, and St. Elmo’s Fire. She explained, “I...

The Brat Pack was a group of young actors who rose to fame in movies such as Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire, and The Breakfast Club. In the documentary Brats, filmmaker Andrew McCarthy spoke to this group of celebrities, whose lives were forever changed by the title. However, one of its most recognizable faces, Molly Ringwald didn’t appear in the film. Here’s why.

Why didn’t Molly Ringwald appear in ‘Brats?’

The documentary Brats looks back at the “Brat Pack” moniker and its impact on a select group of actors. It explores the narrative that took hold of their lives once the phrase was coined.

However, one of the era’s biggest stars was conspicuously absent from those who appeared in the documentary; Molly Ringwald. She was the star of Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and The Breakfast Club and an icon for millions of movie fans worldwide.

Andrew McCarthy‘s Brats documentary is a nostalgic trip down memory lane as he looks back at the iconic Brat Pack. However, there are two notable members of the group missing from the documentary: Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson. Ringwald and Nelson are synonymous with the Brat Pack. Ringwald starred in Brat Pack hits like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink. Nelson starred alongside Ringwald in The Breakfast Club and appeared with more Brat Packers in St. Elmo’s Fire. So, why are Ringwald and Nelson missing from the Brats documentary, except for archival footage? McCarthy’s Pretty in Pink co-star Jon Cryer asks him during their discussion if he’s spoken to Ringwald. McCarthy says he’s reached out to Ringwald about participating. “She said she’d think about it, but that she would probably just like to keep looking forward.” Cryer acknowledges that Ringwald wants...

In the 1980s, a group of young actors gained popularity through a collection of coming-of-age movies that became classics.

These movies have aged like fine wine, immortalizing the group forever as teen idols despite the passing of decades.

Who are these infamous actors, and why do we love them so?

Fans call them the Brat Pack, a group of eight -- five males and three females.

While the world adored the Brats, the group hated the association with the name and each other.

Related: 21 Cult TV Shows We'll Never Get Over

Who Is the Brat Pack?

These days, fans consider the Brat Pack to be a group of popular '80s actors who appeared in most of the movies made at the time.

The men in the group include Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy, and Anthony Michael Hall.

And rounding out the group are powerhouse female leads Molly Ringwald,...

In 1985, journalist David Blum applied the title "Brat Pack" to a group of young actors, including several stars of the then-new movie The Breakfast Club.

Since then, speculation has been that the Brat Pack was just a media ploy.

Was it, and how close was the group?

The Basis For the Naming of the Brat Pack

The Brat Pack was named when Journalist David Blum was assigned to interview Emilio Estevez for New York Magazine in 1985.

Emilio invited him out for an evening with Emilio and his friends.

Related: The Controversial Origins of the Brat Pack

Those friends were Rob Lowe and Judd Nelson, who were hanging out with Emilio at the Hard Rock Cafe on a Thursday evening just ahead of the premiere of St. Elmo's Fire (1985).

Blum then turned his article into a mostly unfavorable review of several Hollywood actors, grouping them as the "Brat Pack," a name...

The 1980s was the age of the Brat Pack.

Before the phrase was even coined in 1985, many of the young actors later named Brat Pack members starred in unforgettable films.

In preparation for the release of the 2024 documentary Brats, we're looking at that explosion of Brat Pack movies and what made them so special.

Defining the Brat Pack and Their Films

Before we can delve into what made the Brat Pack films great, we must define them.

There are varying opinions about which movies are actual Brat Pack films.

Related: The Controversial Origins of the Brat Pack

Most people seem to agree that to be considered a Brat Pack film, a movie had to come out between 1983 and 1990 and include at least two Brat Pack actors.

The only problem is that everyone's list of Brat Pack actors seems different.

Journalist David Blum coined the phrase "Brat Pack" in his 1985 article,...

Image Source: Universal Picture Home Entertainment In the 1980s, writer/director John Hughes‘ films became a part of movie pop culture. The films defined a young generation of audiences, relating to the teen angst and issues explored in the movies. Along with those movies, they also turned Molly Ringwald into a movie star. Ringwald worked with Hughes on three films, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink (Hughes wrote it). Their collaboration was beloved. Each of these films had an impact on not only audiences but on Ringwald personally and professionally. Hughes’ impact is still felt today, with new audiences being introduced to the films even more than three decades after they were released. Speaking at The Breakfast Club Reunion Panel at Steely Con, Ringwald recalled making the iconic 1980s teen movie with Hughes and the very special work relationship they had. (Click on the media bar below...

Many things made the 1980s a unique decade, including big hair, brightly colored outfits, and MTV music videos.

The movies of the '80s were especially iconic. This decade gave us The Goonies, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and many more greats.

It was also the period when the Brat Pack was taking Hollywood by storm.

The Era of Teen Movie Cast Repetition

On February 15, 1985, the John Hughes classic coming-of-age teen flick The Breakfast Club, about five teens stuck in Saturday detention, premiered.

A few months later, St. Elmo's Fire was released.

It was another hit movie about the ups and downs of relationships and love featuring stars like Andrew McCarthy.

Related: 11 Characters Who Have the Worst Luck in Love

Other teen movies, such as Sixteen Candles (1984) and Pretty in Pink (1986), also premiered around that same time.

As a young kid in the '80s, I vividly recall...

Molly Ringwald appeared on Marc Maron’s “Wtf” podcast (via People magazine) and revealed that she’s tried to convince her 20-year-old daughter not to become an actor because of how difficult it is for young women in Hollywood. Ringwald, an icon of 1980s teen movies thanks to roles in “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink” and more, said she was taken advantage of as a young actor — and that it’s nearly impossible not to be as a woman growing up in Hollywood.

“I never really felt like I was part of a community when I was in Hollywood, just because I was so young, really,” Ringwald said. “I wasn’t into going out to clubs. I feel like I’m more social now than I was then. I was just too young.”

“Well, you’re lucky you didn’t get taken advantage of or got into some sort of horrible situation,...

Sunny Hostin is beloved on The View for her take on the hot topics that grip the nation and for her facial expressions as she tells it like it is.

In this heated political season, it is easy to get upset when someone says one thing but then changes their mind and returns to a previous viewpoint.

The ladies discussed Nikki Haley and her changing views on who she will vote for in the presidential election, causing fans to comment on Sunny Hostin’s reactions.

Nikki dropped out of the presidential race in March, and now she has revealed her voting plans, which the ladies on The View discussed livelily.

Sunny Hostin’s reactions have once again caused fans to comment about them, as they did recently over her words about Gypsy-Rose Blanchard.

The View shared a video of the exchange on their social media page on X (formerly Twitter...

When Hollywood dubbed actors like Andrew McCarthy, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Demi Moore, and Rob Lowe as members of The Brat Pack, the label triggered an unwanted chain reaction throughout the group. The name came with a specific air, and several Brat Pack members saw the brand as a curse. In Andrew McCarthy’s Brats trailer, the teen comedy icon turned filmmaker explores the ramifications of becoming the poster child for Hollywood’s disaffected youth during the 1980s.

In partnership with Neon and Network Entertainment, ABC News Studios will bring Brats to Hulu in the United States on June 13. A Disney+ premiere will occur in select territories later this summer, following its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival.

According to the documentary’s official press release:

Brats “looks at the iconic films of the 1980s that shaped a generation and the narrative that took hold when their young...

The pop culture nostalgia cycle might have moved on to the early 2000s, but for many filmmakers and movie fans, the '80s will never go out of style. That's certainly true for director Ti West, who returns this year with the third chapter of his horror trilogy that started with 2022's "X" and was shortly followed by a surprise prequel, "Pearl." Star Mia Goth will return for this summer's bloody conclusion, "MaXXXine," in which aspiring adult film star (and massacre survivor) Maxine Minx is now trying to break into mainstream movies with a role in horror movie "The Puritan II."

"MaXXXine" is set in 1985 Los Angeles, six years after the events of "X." West recently told Empire magazine that "the '80s aspect of it was a natural, chronological thing" -- but that it was also a great opportunity to draw inspiration from '80s movies. For many people,...

The Japanese tokusatsu kaiju television series Ultra Q premiered in 1966 – and quickly became a pop culture phenomenon, launching a franchise that has, over the decades, consisted of more than thirty TV shows, more than forty films, a whole bunch of specials and mini-series, a long list of video games, and a bunch of comic books. The latest entry in the franchise is an animated feature called Ultraman: Rising, which will be released through the Netflix streaming service on June 14th. In anticipation of that release, a trailer for Ultraman: Rising has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

Directed by John Aoshima and Shannon Tindle, who wrote the script with Marc Haimes, Ultraman: Rising has the following synopsis: With Tokyo under siege from rising monster attacks, baseball star Ken Sato reluctantly returns home to take on the mantle of Ultraman. But the titanic superhero meets his match...

Netflix has revealed the official trailer for the animated superhero film Ultraman: Rising, which will premiere globally on the streaming service on June 14, 2024.

In partnership with Netflix, Tsuburaya Productions, and Industrial Light & Magic, Ultraman: Rising was written by Shannon Tindle and Marc Haimes, directed by Shannon Tindle, and co-directed by John Aoshima.

With Tokyo under siege from rising monster attacks, baseball star Ken Sato reluctantly returns home to take on the mantle of Ultraman. But the titanic superhero meets his match when he is forced to adopt a 35-foot-tall, fire-breathing baby kaiju.

Sato must rise above his ego to balance work and parenthood while protecting the baby from forces bent on exploiting her for their own dark plans.

The voice cast includes Christopher Sean, Gedde Watanabe (Sixteen Candles), Tamlyn Tomita (Avatar: The Last Airbender), Keone Young, and Julia Harriman (Camp Rock).

The Netflix release was produced by Tom Knott and Lisa M. Poole.

Netflix has debuted the full official trailer for the animated superhero offering ‘Ultraman: Rising.’

Based on the beloved Japanese character, Netflix’s ‘Ultraman’ follows baseball superstar Ken Sato as he returns to his home country of Japan to pick up the mantle of Earth-defending superhero Ultraman. He soon finds more than he bargained for when he’s forced to raise the offspring of his greatest foe. Ken must go on a heroic journey, balancing parenthood, his estranged father, and the relentless Kaiju Defense Force to rise beyond his ego and discover what it truly means to be ‘Ultraman.’

With Tokyo under siege from rising monster attacks, baseball star Ken Sato reluctantly returns home to take on the mantle of Ultraman. But the titanic superhero meets his match when he is forced to adopt a 35-foot-tall, fire-breathing baby kaiju. Sato must rise above his ego to balance work and parenthood while...

“When I was just a little girl I asked my mother, what will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Here’s what she said to me: Qué será, será. Whatever will be, will be”

The opening of Michael Lehmann’s Heathers begins with a dreamy cover of a familiar song. Angelic voices ask a mother to predict the future only to be met with an infuriating response: “whatever will be, will be.” Her answer is most likely intended to present a life of limitless possibility, but as the introduction to a film devoid of competent parents, it feels like a noncommittal platitude. Heathers is filled with teenagers looking for guidance only to be let down by one adult after another. Gen Xers and elder millennials may have glamorized the outlandish fashion and creative slang while drooling over a smoking hot killer couple, but the violent film now packs an ominous punch.

Clockwise from top left: American Fiction (Amazon MGM Studios), Psycho (Universal Pictures), The Idea Of You (Amazon MGM Studios), Pearl (A24)Image: The A.V. Club

A new romantic comedy starring Anne Hathaway, the Oscar-winning American Fiction, Mia Goth in the horror prequel Pearl, and a number of Alfred Hitchcock classics...

“Sixteen Candles” actor Gedde Watanabe says it “didn’t really occur” to him in 1984 that his character Long Duk Dong “was a stereotype.”

“It didn’t really occur to me that it was a stereotype, because there wasn’t really anything out there for Asian actors at the time,” Watanabe told People magazine. “It was just so scarce. So I didn’t think it was stereotypical or racist. Isn’t that weird?”

In fact, Chinese exchange student Long Duk Dong exemplified anti-stereotypes in his social standing in the teen film, according to the actor. Long Duk Dong parties, becomes popular, and even gets a girlfriend despite speaking in broken English.

“That was really unusual in a sense, for the Asian character to get the girl and party and be in bliss like that,” he said. Watanabe was being interviewed as part of the magazine’s 40th anniversary celebration of the John Hughes film.

Over the past couple of decades, John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles has been seen in a new light, with many calling out its portrayal of foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong, played by Gedde Watanabe, as racist. For the 40th anniversary of the 1984 classic, Watanabe reflected on the role in an interview with People magazine where he said that he initially didn’t think about whether the character was offensive.

At the time of playing the character, Watanabe says, he was just happy to get his first big paycheck. “Frankly I was like, this is a good job, and I’m going to get paid more doing one week in this movie than I did all the years I was in the theater,” he said.

As for whether he had any hesitations on taking on the role as Long Duk Dong, Watanabe noted, “It didn’t really occur to me that it was a stereotype,...

Gedde Watanabe has enjoyed a lengthy career in Hollywood. The actor’s big break was the 1984 film “Sixteen Candles,” in which he played foreign exchange student “Long Duk Dong.” While Watanabe’s line “What’s happenin’, hot stuff?” is still often quoted, the character himself relied on a lot of racist stereotypes, including his name — something Watanabe now says he didn’t see at the time.

“Frankly I was like, this is a good job, and I’m going to get paid more doing one week in this movie that I did [than] for all the years I was in the theater,” the actor told People. “It didn’t really occur to me that it was a stereotype, because there wasn’t really anything out there for Asian actors at the time. It was just so scarce. So I didn’t think it was stereotypical or racist. Isn’t that weird?...