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With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, it's time to order those DVDs for family films guaranteed to delight young and old.

Remember spoofs before the Wayans brothers? It's time to remember the good old days of, er...slightly more respectable parodies like the 1987 film Spaceballs , in which Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, and John Candy poke fun at beloved sci-fi films like Star Wars and Star Trek .

EA for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Rated M for mature. Tim Schafer, the acclaimed writer and producer of "Brutal Legend," loves heavy metal.

In 1987 John Hughes took a huge risk. The man who had spent three years profiling the lives of teenagers did the unthinkable: He wrote and directed two movies featuring adults: She's Having a Baby and Planes, Trains & Automobiles .

By DNA Smith EDITOR'S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of Oct.

The concept has since gone from merely a Windy City-based cabaret theater to an additional outpost in Toronto and training centers in those cities and Los Angeles.

The letters in the title of " Planes, Trains and Automobiles " roar across the screen like a streamliner, and the movie itself has the same confidence.

Much bandwidth gets eaten up every day as these far out theories get debated on the web.

Much bandwidth gets eaten up every day as these far out theories get debated on the web.

Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan have been tapped to pen "Brewster's Millions," the latest take on the George Barr McCutcheon novel set up at Warner Bros.

Brewster's Millions is set for a remake, although technically the Brewster's Millions you are probably thinking about is a remake itself, whether you're thinking of the 1985 or the 1945 version.

Daily Horoscope: August 12 Feeling sorry about past behaviour, Virgo? Thinking about making some reparations? Definitely do that, but don't be too hard on yourself.

This 1984 file photo shows director John Hughes. Hughes is the man who wrote "National Lampoon's Vacation," "Mr. Mom" and "National Lampoon's European Vacation." He also wrote and directed "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Weird Science." Hughes, who was 59, died in New York on Thursday.

This 1984 file photo shows director John Hughes. Hughes is the man who wrote "National Lampoon's Vacation," "Mr. Mom" and "National Lampoon's European Vacation." He also wrote and directed "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Weird Science." Hughes, who was 59, died in New York on Thursday.

To hear John Hughes died, for some, was like hearing that a slice of your formative years were somehow removed from you...not a huge portion, but just enough to feel it.

Deceptive Deceptions is Dan Meth's latest short film, this time tying together all modern conspiracy theories.A What do the JFK assassination, actor John Candy, NASA, and Wyoming have in common?A This video explains it all.

In 1992, while promoting "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," legendary director John Hughes, who died Thursday of a heart attack at the age of 59, spoke to MTV News about how he wound up specializing in iconic teen flicks like "Pretty in Pink" and later kid-friendly movies, like "Home Alone." Hughes recalled that as he was finishing up his John ...

This 1984 file photo shows director John Hughes. Hughes is the man who wrote "National Lampoon's Vacation," "Mr. Mom" and "National Lampoon's European Vacation." He also wrote and directed "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Weird Science." Hughes, who was 59, died in New York on Thursday.

With the sad news of the death of John Hughes , I started to think about all the actors who worked with him and realized that it wasn't that big of a group.

Anchor Bay will release The Shortcut on DVD on 29 September. This horror/thriller starring Katrina Bowden and Andrew Seeley will arrive with a 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, a Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix, a making-of featurette and the film's trailer.