Like any John Hughes film, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles includes a handful of life lessons: Neal Page (Steve Martin) learns that family is more important than success, and, sometimes, going with the flow like his counterpart Del Griffith (John Candy) brings more joy to life than running a perpetual race with a bunch of uptight suits trying […]
As A Christmas Story begins its twenty-four hour loop to commemorate the holiday season, I think of the various other film staples that have become part of this season’s diet. Rounding out a brief list is, most often, It’s a Wonderful Life, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Scrooged, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the brief cartoon, not the […]