While Hall was established as the '80s nerd extraordinaire thanks to his roles in the Hughes classics Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, Mitchell-Smith wasn't as well-known, and the comic ...

Weird Science was a 1985 film by John Hughes that asked: what would two high-school boys do with an all-powerful magic-wielding sex goddess if they could create one on their computer? It’s a concept ...

Hughes adapted the screenplay for Weird Science from the EC Comics anthology series of the same name. Most issues of the comic featured four self-contained stories, giving readers a variety of options ...

1985 was a milestone for filmmaker John Hughes, but not always for the reasons most people remember. While The Breakfast Club pleased tortured souls with its portrayal of teenage alienation, Hughes ...

The iconic John Hughes film stared Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder, Judie Aronson and Robert Downey Jr. The 1986 film, which saw two teenage boys ...

There are a lot of riffs on Frankenstein, but none more extra than the 1985 cult classic, Weird Science. A wish-fulfillment film filled to the brim with hormones, Weird Science might, at first glance, ...

Host David Kestenbaum talks with physicist Robert Ehrlich about his book, Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True. Ehrlich goes to the edge of science in his book, considering the ...