New Line Cinema It’s common for kids to create imaginary friends when they’re young, but what if that fictional figure were to suddenly reappear when you’re an adult? That’s the basic premise the 1991 dark comedy Drop Dead Fred explores through the eyes of Elizabeth Cronin (Phoebe Cates), a young woman who is in desperate...
Helen Sloan/Netflix © 2025 It’s hard to believe, but August is upon us. That means two things for most families: sweating through the final (scorching) stretch of the season, and slowly shifting over to back-to-school mode. Your kids can’t be summer gremlins forever! So, whether you’re rejoicing over the return of routine or looking for...
Paramount It’s been eight years since the last theatrical Smurfs movie — back when my kids were prime Smurfing age, around 5 and 6. Now, I’ve got a tween and a young teen, and I honestly wasn’t sure how they’d feel about a return to Smurf Village. But going to the new Smurfs movie meant...
Archive Photos/Moviepix/Getty Images The ‘80s and ‘90s felt like a bit of a lawless land for parents. Not only were we allowed to ride our bikes wherever we wanted and drink tiny plastic jugs of sugar water and call it “juice,” we were also pretty much given free rein on what we watched. We were...