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Soundtrack Saturday
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Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel reveals the original inspiration for Soundtrack Saturday in her tribute to filmmaker John Hughes.
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel’s latest Soundtrack Saturday looks back at a Kevin Smith classic from the ’90s. Snootchie bootchies!
Kelly Stitzel
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Hey, look, kids, there’s Big Ben! And there’s Parliament!
Kelly Stitzel
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The Goonies (1985) is, hands down, one of my favorite movies of all time. I love it because of the sentimental factor — growing up in the ’80s, it played…
Kelly Stitzel
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Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett as rockin’ blue-collar siblings? Only in the ’80s — and only in Paul Schrader’s Light of Day, the subject of this week’s Soundtrack Saturday.
Kelly Stitzel
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A couple months ago I was browsing around the vinyl section at my local Half-Price Books when I came across a near-mint copy of the soundtrack to Two of a…
Kelly Stitzel
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I first heard about The Matchmaker (1997) during an HBO comedy special Janeane Garofalo did not long after she’d finished filming it. She was talking about her time in Ireland…
Kelly Stitzel
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Eddie Murphy’s back on the big screen this weekend in Imagine That, but Kelly Stitzel’s been bullied into talking about Murphy’s 1988 smash hit Coming to America by Jeff Giles and Jason Hare. Imagine that!
Kelly Stitzel
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Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, and legions of undead bloodsuckers meeting grisly ends. What more could you ask for in ’92? Well, how about a soundtrack featuring C&C Music Factory, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and Matthew Sweet?
Kelly Stitzel
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If the 1980s were good for nothing else, they brought the world a slew of movies featuring lots of dancing and dancers. Not that other decades are devoid of this…
Kelly Stitzel
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Hey, who’s up for a Threesome with Kelly Stitzel? No, no, not that kind of Threesome — get your mind out of the gutter. We’re talking about a trip back to 1994’s quirky rom-com, and another edition of Soundtrack Saturday.
Kelly Stitzel
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As I was trying to decide which movie to write about this week, I decided on Krush Groove (1985) because, as the poster says, “It’s Chillin’.” And I figured that…
Kelly Stitzel
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Whenever I think of With Honors (1994), I think it’s Robin Williams who plays the homeless character, Simon Wilder, not Joe Pesci. Maybe it’s because Williams’s character in The Fisher…
Kelly Stitzel
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I’m a James Spader fan from way back. I would say as far back as Tuff Turf (1985), but I technically didn’t see that movie until a couple of years…
Kelly Stitzel
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The latest installment of Kelly Stitzel’s Soundtrack Saturday series revisits a kinder, gentler time of bangles and bustiers — yes, that’s right, it’s time for Desperately Seeking Susan.
Kelly Stitzel
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So, I know I normally write about films with soundtrack albums that are out of print or hard to find. I’ve avoided writing about Valley Girl (1983) because A) part…
Kelly Stitzel
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Pull up a carpet square, kids — it’s story time. Today I’d like to tell you a tale about one of the most frightening nightmares I’ve ever had. It’s a…
Kelly Stitzel
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If you regularly read this column, I guess you noticed that there was no Soundtrack Saturday last week. I had a technology meltdown a couple of weeks ago that resulted…
Kelly Stitzel
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“What is so dangerous about a character like Ferris Bueller is he gives good kids bad ideas.” So says Principal Ed Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), who’s out to catch the most…
Kelly Stitzel
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I love a good movie about food and chefs, and I fell in love with Big Night (1996) within the first five minutes. At the time of the film’s release,…
Kelly Stitzel
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Have I featured a film in this column that was made after 1995? I don’t think I have. I know you kids like it when I post the older stuff,…
Kelly Stitzel
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When I started the Soundtrack Saturday feature in 2006 on my old blog, I did so because I’d discovered that most of the movies that were pivotal to my coming…
Kelly Stitzel
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Happy Valentine’s Day! I kind of don’t really mean that since I think this is a stupid commercial holiday. Am I a bitter, single girl? No, not at all. I…
Kelly Stitzel
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In my experience Four Rooms (1995) is one of those movies people either love or hate. Or, more precisely, they love some of it and hate some of it. It…
Kelly Stitzel
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I first saw Parker Posey on As the World Turns somewhere around 1991. I remember that her character, Tess Shelby, was annoying as hell, and at the time I also…
Kelly Stitzel
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Robert Downey Jr. received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor this week for his role in Tropic Thunder. I haven’t seen it yet (though it is next in my…
Kelly Stitzel
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When I wrote about Just One of the Guys (1985) last year, I mentioned my love for actor Clayton Rohner. A lovely commenter named Jill agreed with me, recommending that…
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“Don’t fuck with the babysitter.” There were many occasions during my short stint as a teenage babysitter when I wanted to say this line from Adventures in Babysitting (1987) —…