Chris ColumbusQ: What do you get when you name a kid after a famous Italian explorer and then send him to NYU film school? A: Chris Columbus—who, unlike the real Columbus, didn't kill anybody or...

John HughesJohn Hughes used to be an advertising man—so he knew what the people wanted…even before they knew it themselves.He could write a movie expressing his own real feelings about adolesce...

Hughes EntertainmentBy the time the 1990s rolled around, John Hughes had gone from being a humble Chicago Ad Man to the angst-ridden but funny voice of Teen America—thanks to movies like The Brea...

Obvious statement: Home Alone is funny. But imagine directing it, and constantly praying that a stunt man didn't just die after falling down a flight of stairs. That was part of Christopher Columbu...

Heartfelt, Yet Intense John Williams brings it. Every time. The dude did the famous scores for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Superman, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, E.T., and the first Harry P...

People love Home Alone. And seriously: what's not to like? We see a famous child star systematically destroying two grown men, all in the service of saving Christmas—naturally, both American and...