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Join us Back at the Movies as we sit in Saturday detention and watch two more iconic Brat Pack movies: The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire. We sadly couldn't find Siskel and Ebert's discussion about The Breakfast Club, but they (and we!) certainly have a lot to say about St. Elmo's Fire.

What's happening, hot stuff? In honor of the new Hulu documentary BRATS, we're mixing it up and doing a grab bag of Siskel & Ebert reviews of movies starring the legendary Brat Pack. This week, it's a Molly Ringwald double header, as we revisit the iconic teen films SIXTEEN CANDLES and PRETTY IN PINK. 

In today’s episode from October 11th 1997, it’s a battle of the 90’s hunks, as we revisit Boogie Nights starring Mark “Marky Mark” Wahlberg, and Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt. We’re talking porn and Nazis, and we'll decide which is longer: Dirk Diggler’s uh, special talent, or Seven Years in Tibet’s runtime? All that and more, including Julianne Moore, Back at the Movies.

On today’s episode, which aired February 9th 1991, we try not to let Siskel kill our buzz too much as we delve into two "woman in peril" movies: the iconic The Silence of the Lambs and the less-iconic Sleeping with the Enemy. We also discuss Steve Martin’s LA Story and if the traffic jokes still land 30 years later. So put the lotion in the basket and rearrange those kitchen cupboards like a proper stalker, and join us Back at the Movies.

The summer of 1989 at the multiplex was all about Batman and Honey I Shrunk the Kids, but by August 5th it was time to make room for the grown-ups, with two very different movies about adults: sex, lies and videotape and Parenthood. We couldn’t wait to revisit future Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh’s Cannes sensation, and future Oscar-winner Ron Howard’s multigenerational dramedy. What’s it like revisiting the movie that kickstarted the independent film movement of the 90s? And does the movie that introduced us to the “diarrhea song” still tug at our heartstrings? Join us as we dive into this and more Back at the Movies.

On today’s episode from December 26th, 1987, we spend time with Siskel & Ebert and two comedy legends, Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy. Both Good Morning, Vietnam and Eddie Murphy Raw were huge hits that year and were built around their stars’ personas, further cementing Williams and Murphy as two of the biggest stars of the decade. Do their brands of humor hold up all these years later? Can topical humor from back then work today? We get into all that as well as a Bill Cosby movie that most certainly does not hold up. We also look at a movie with a much different vibe starring Christine Lahti.