Tag: charles shyer
M3GAN Is Ultimately A Techno-Horror Version of Baby Boom and Raising Helen
Although the automatic correlation to make with M3GAN is that it’s a mere pale imitation of the Child’s Play movies (particularly the 2019 one), at [Read More…]
Unable to Get A Mean Girls Reunion, Lindsay Lohan Settles For A The Parent Trap One
After years of being the most desperate cast member–despite being the film’s “star” (though we all know it was Rachel McAdams)–to finagle a Mean Girls [Read More…]
Hallie Meyers-Shyer Is Almost at Home in the Writer-Director’s Chair of Home Again
When your parents are auteur Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, there’s most certainly an undeniable amount of pressure to “be good”–at the very least–when making [Read More…]
The Nancy Meyers Method
When considering female writer-directors who have truly left an imprint on Hollywood, Nancy Meyers is among the forerunners on the list, the likes of Mary [Read More…]
What Protocol Says About Politics in the 80s
If there’s anything in the political arena that the U.S. government put emphasis on in the 1980s, it was the Middle East. Second to or [Read More…]
Baby Boom: The Epitome of the 80s Working Woman
Nancy Meyers’ fourth film, Baby Boom, released in 1987, epitomized one of the pinnacles of “the businesswoman” struggling to balance her working life with her [Read More…]
