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Honda's Ferris Bueller Commercial Reviewed

Yes, I am really going to review a commercial since this two-and-a-half-minute Super Bowl ad is the closest we'll (hopefully) get to a Ferris Bueller sequel. If our pop-culture icons are sacred, most of us who were teens in the '80s worshiped most fervently at the alter of Ferris. Whatever it says about our generation's spoiled sense of entitlement, he was our James Dean. Not even Lloyd Dobler could touch his cool.  read more

Watch Ferris Bueller Return in Honda's Super Bowl Ad

The moment we’ve been waiting for since 1986 is finally here — Ferris Bueller is back. Today a highly rumored Super Bowl ad for Honda hit the internet.  read more

Patton Oswalt Leaves Beach Lane, Pens Serenity Comic

Looks like we spoke too soon. We reported last week that Patton Oswalt would be appearing alongside Matthew Broderick in the upcoming NBC comedy Beach Lane, but it seems as though the pairing was short-lived. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Oswalt is no longer a member of the new series’ cast....  read more

Patton Oswalt Joins Matthew Broderick in NBC Comedy Pilot

We know, we know: There’s always an abundance of new TV pilots to wade through each year, and each one touts itself as the best. Although NBC hasn’t yet released many details about its upcoming comedy series, Beach Lane, the cast certainly looks promising. Patton Oswalt, a Paste favorite, will be joining Matthew Broderick and Kristen Johnston (of Third Rock From The Sun fame) on the show....  read more

Remembering Shelley Duvall's Star-Studded Faerie Tale Theatre

Much of the world became acquainted with Matthew Broderick through his iconic role as Ferris Bueller. Robin Williams was, of course, the alien Mork. And America recognized Jean Stapleton as All In The Family‘s Edith Bunker. But I was a child of the ’80s. I’d been born too late to watch Mork and Edith on primetime TV, and Ferris Bueller was definitely taboo for a preschooler. Instead, I was introduced to Broderick, Williams, Stapleton and a slew of other Hollywood A-Listers through a different outlet: Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre....  read more

Leonardo DiCaprio to reboot WarGames?

Besides its notability as the year that your correspondent was born, 1983 is also known for bringing about Matthew Broderick's career with WarGames, a film about an innocent, young computer hacker (Broderick) who plays with the computer in charge of America's nuclear arsenal and inadvertently starts the countdown to World War III. This is all resolved with a friendly game of tic-tac-toe, an infinite number of computed stalemates, and the message that you can't hug your children with nuclear arms. Now its rumored that Leonardo Dicapprio wants to remake the sci-fi flick....  read more