Kevin Smokler

Kevin Smokler is the author of "Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies." He's a writer and documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco. He's currently working on a book of conversations with women filmmakers.

"We are an invisible people": Creator Tanya Saracho on the end of her queer Latinx series "Vida" Kevin Smokler
Cynthia Erivo, Greta Gerwig, Lulu Wang, Barack & Michelle Obama, and Ava DuVernay
Diversity didn't die with the Oscars – here are the kickass creatives to celebrate and support Kevin Smokler
Rick Springfield
Rick Springfield: From "Jessie's Girl" to "God, the devil and sex" Kevin Smokler
Steve Martin and John Candy in “Planes, Trains & Automobiles”
How "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" redefined Thanksgiving Kevin Smokler
"Stranger Things" and the sinister innocence of Reagan's America Kevin Smokler
Happy Soccer Team
Doomed to relive high school? Science that says who we were at 16 still defines us Kevin Smokler
Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy stretches his wings: "I do have a strong yearning to escape" Kevin Smokler
Lea Thompson in
"Some Kind of Wonderful" at 30: On the John Hughes film's epic romances — on- and off-camera — that endure Kevin Smokler
The Breakfast Club
When you grow up, your heart doesn't have to die: Kevin Smokler and Jason Diamond on the perfectly imperfect world of John Hughes Kevin Smokler
Nightmare on Elm Street
The psychos down the street: Slaying the suburban slasher flicks of my youth Kevin Smokler
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Secrets of the "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" soundtrack: "Oh my God, this song is about Cameron" Kevin Smokler
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller's missing soundtrack: Why we shouldn't mourn what we never had Kevin Smokler
Pretty in Pink
The trouble with Duckie: How "Pretty in Pink’s" most lovable character gave a generation of teenage boys the wrong idea Kevin Smokler
Back to the Future
I went "Back to the Future" but nothing was there: How I lost Hill Valley and where I found it Kevin Smokler
The Goonies
We're all "Goonies" in Astoria: Following the lucid dream of the Goondocks, 30 years later Kevin Smokler