Coming of Age: The Outsiders

There are few experiences that are told in stories that are truly universal. I’m not talking about universal themes, ideas that bring people together, like good vs. evil, or loss, nor am I talking about universal dreams that people have, of making something of ourselves, of being remembered, or of finding true love.  These are

Movie Cars: The Wraith

The film The Wraith is a unique piece in our study of movie cars for a number of reasons: One, it’s one of the lesser-known films.  Following classics like Bullitt and Batman, The Wraith, a little film about a ghost taking revenge on the street-race gang that killed him is a smaller-scale film with an

The Goonies: Final Thoughts

I first saw The Goonies at the age of nineteen, during my first semester at college, well after the age I should have seen it at.  At some point, I realized halfway through the movie that this was really meant for an audience a little younger than I was, but I was far too hooked

The Goonies: Facets of Filmmaking

From the get go, The Goonies seemed destined for success. Everything seemed perfectly in place: director Richard Donner (of Superman and The Omen fame) producer Stephen Spielberg (director of Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, and the Indiana Jones films), screenwriter Chris Columbus, (also worked on Gremlins) and Spielberg’s production

The Goonies: Facets of Film

A film isn’t ready for shooting the minute the script has been written and the parts have been cast.   This is pretty obvious: there’s a lot of steps to go through before a project can fully become a film: cameras, lighting, music, sets, special effects, costumes, and tons more that have to go into piecing

The Goonies: A Product of the Times

Released in 1985, The Goonies came along right smack in the middle of a decade well-known for its movies centered on youth.  While there are plenty of fond memories of the ‘teen oriented’ films like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Adventures in Babysitting, Hollywood of the 1980s was focused on more than