Tag: 1988

  • Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

    “You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning.” –Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City. Alfred Hitchcock said he preferred making movies adapted from marginal novels instead of top-shelf literature. The latter, he reasoned, already had been defined in an artistic medium that…

  • Heathers (1988)

    If you can handle teen suicide as suitable subject matter for the blackest of black comedies, here’s a movie for you. As the flip (and dark) side of John Hughes‘ ‘80s-era youth-centric flicks, Heathers draws blood knifing through the unforgiving social hierarchies of high school. It imagines how tensions between popular kids and pariahs can…