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See the Cast of 'Ghostbusters' Then and Now

Kyle Dowling — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:10:35 +0000

Even though we were first introduced to these guys back in 1984, to this day we still know that if there’s something strange in the neighborhood we’re gonna call…the ‘Ghostbusters.’ The film starred a cast of comedy legends and created one of the most successful franchises in history. From there, we were met with television [...]

Wax Nostalgic About 1999 With This Intense Montage

Emerald Catron — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:42:10 +0000

Time travel hasn’t been invented yet (or if it has, those jerks aren’t telling us), so this is probably the next best thing. Just grab your yearbook and play this on a loop. You’ll find yourself transported back to 1999, when there were just as many girl groups as boy groups, and everybody’s midriff was [...]

See The Cast Of 'Say Anything' Then and Now

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:02:48 +0000

When one thinks of â€˜Say Anything…,â€™ John Cusak, holding a boom box above his head and serenading Ione Skye with the Peter Gabriel song â€™In Your Eyes’ likely comes to mind. But beyond that iconic scene, Cameron Croweâ€™s directorial debut is perhaps one of the most well-crafted and nuanced teen romantic comedies of all time.A [...]

See the Cast of 'Cruel Intentions' Then And Now

Jeremy Taylor — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:35:17 +0000

Since it was published in 1782, the French novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' has been retold time and time again in various artistic mediums.

Among one of the more unique adaptations of Choderlos de Laclos' notorious book is the 1999 film 'Cruel Intentions,' which sets the tale of sex, gamesmanship and betrayal in present day New York City and makes the characters wealthy prep-school students.

See Cast of 'Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead' Then and Now

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:45:40 +0000

'Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead' made it pretty clear from the title what the movie was going to be about. In the 1991 comedy, the five Crandell kids are left in the care of a strict elderly babysitter when their mom leaves for a two-month Australian vacation. When the mean old bat up and dies, they decide to not to relay the news to mom and instead live out their summer free from rules and grown-ups.

12 Pre-Fame Roles of Famous Stars You Probably Forgot About

Nick Romano — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:30:49 +0000

In the eyes of the audience, an actor’s career begins with his or her first major role. For Jack Gleeson and Jennifer Lawrence, at least, nobody paid them much attention until they transformed respectively into Joffrey for HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ and Katniss in 'The Hunger Games.' Barely anyone except the die-hard movie and TV [...]

16 Celebrity Commercials From Before They Were Famous

Nick Romano — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:33:37 +0000

Before they hit it big, celebrities had a hard-knock life they wish they could simply forget. Funnyman Jon Hamm, for instance, used to be a set designer for porn movies, and before Bryan Cranston became the infamous Walter

See 'The Baby-Sitters Club' Kids Then And Now

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:05:56 +0000

If you were a girl growing up in the ’80s or ’90s, you probably read ‘The Baby-Sitters Club,’ an almost 100-book-strong series of novels from Ann M. Martin that focuses on a collective of junior high school students who run an unlicensed child care business in their spare time. All the girls had distinct personalities, and when [...]

See the Kids From 'The Goonies' Then and Now

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:35:44 +0000

A reoccurring theme of movies during the mid-’80s was that of scrappy kids beating the odds. Daniel-son had to defeat the Cobra Kai in ‘The Karate Kid’ and the teens of Calumet, Colorado had to fight off most of the communist block in ‘Red Dawn.’ But probably the biggest underdogs were ‘The Goonies,’ a band of misfits from the goon docks of Astoria, Oregon who had to outlast a fugitive family to find the amply booby-trapped treasury of 17th Century pirate “One-Eyed Willie” and prevent their parents’ homes from being turned into a golf course.

See the Orphans From 'Annie' Then and Now

Kathy Landin — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:00:43 +0000

All the orphans from the movie ‘Annie’ lived a hard knock life — considering audience members really only gave their two-cents to the title character — and were always looking forward to tomorrow. By the end of the flick, it looked like they had a brighter future, but what really happened to those orphans from the 1982 movie ‘Annie’?