Maybe it started with Tommy Wiseau. The writer-director-star of The Room took the devoted cult mockery of his movie and transformed it into a celebration of his own weirdness (and an extension of the movie's), and his audience responded by elevating Wiseau to celebrity status, making him a self-aware object......
When Home Alone was released in the fall of 1990, I was 10 years old, the same age as star Macaulay Culkin, who played 8-year-old Kevin McCallister. And like pretty much every kid in America, I went to see Home Alone in the theater. I saw it three times, more......
