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Phoebe Cates was one of the biggest stars of the 1980s, but as she hasn't appeared in a movie in a long time, fans wonder what happened to her. Cates was launched to stardom as Linda Barrett in the classic high school comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The scene with Linda at the swimming pool, imagined by her best friend Stacy Hamilton’s brother Brad, has become one of the most iconic moments in movie history. Cates continued to appear in movies regularly throughout the rest of the ‘80s and into the ‘90s, but then she stopped starring in films.

It’s been more than two decades since Cates appeared in a movie, and her last appearance before that was almost another decade prior. Aside from a brief voice role in a video game in 2015, Cates hasn’t worked as an actor in years. It’s tough for actors,...

For a few years in the '80s, it felt like Phoebe Cates was everywhere in Hollywood. The child of an entertainment-focused family (her dad was a prolific producer of stage and screen), Cates made her on-screen debut in 1982's "Paradise," a controversial film that's best-remembered as a sort of off-brand "Blue Lagoon" story that featured Cates' underage character nude (the actress was 17 at the time of filming). According to Cates' costar Willie Aames, the nudity in question was filmed by body doubles, but the discourse surrounding the movie would inform Cates' place in pop culture before she even came of age.

Cates' most famous roles would come soon after, and by 1994, she would largely be retired from acting entirely. So why did Phoebe Cates leave Hollywood? The answer is hers to share, and interviews she and her family have given both during her on-screen career and after it ended have been pretty enlightening.

We have a light day of horror and sci-fi home entertainment titles on August 15th, with most of the fanfare this week going to Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, which comes in a variety of formats and special releases (for those looking for Collector’s Editions, be sure to check out the likes of Target, Walmart and Best Buy). Prometheus is also now getting a 4K Ultra HD disc (in honor of Covenant’s home bow), and there’s also a new Alien 6-Film Collection that 20th Century Fox has assembled.

Other notable releases for August 15th include Well Go USA's Bluebeard, One Dark Night (from Jason Lives director Tom McLoughlin), Night Moves, The Scarehouse, and Riverdale: The First Complete Season, and Pet Sematary is headed to Blu-ray this week as well.

Alien: Covenant (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 4K Ultra HD/ Blu/ Digital HD, Blu/DVD/Digital HD...

[This feature originally appeared in the "Class of 1986" issue of Deadly Magazine.]

In 1985, Jason Voorhees was dead. Despite the death of a horror icon, Friday the 13th fans still flocked to see the Jason-less A New Beginning in theaters that April, but while the box office numbers would justify a sixth film, many moviegoers were less than pleased by the lack of Voorhees behind the hockey mask, pining for the return of Crystal Lake’s former camper who only wanted to make mommy proud.

And so, Paramount Pictures began their search for a Dr. Frankenstein, someone who could bring the hockey mask monster back to life. As someone who grew up on Universal Monster movies and filmed his first feature in a mausoleum, Tom McLoughlin turned out to be exactly the bolt of lightning the studio needed to get Jason back on his feet.

“I said, ‘Well, if you’re going to do a sixth one, I can’t take it seriously,...

French actress Emmanuelle Beart has been left terrified of needles after undergoing a botched operation to plump up her lips.

The star, now 48, decided to have the lip injections done after finding success in films such 1987 comedy Date With an Angel and Mission: Impossible in 1996, but the cosmetic procedure went wrong and she has struggled to come to terms with her damaged looks ever since.

In an interview with French newspaper Le Monde, she says, "I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job."

"It is a grave act in which you don't necessarily foresee all the consequences. Just the idea of an injection these days devastates me."...

Welcome to another edition of our upstart series, Mindhole Blowers, in which we troll the Internet and listen to DVD Commentaries to bring you what we hope is fascinating minutia. Typically, we look at movies (see our Mindhole Blowers columns on Cameron Crowe's Singles and Shane Black's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), but today -- with the release of Horrible Bosses on the horizon -- I thought we'd take a look at a person, the fascinating and ridiculously durable Jason Bateman.

Jason Bateman has been acting now in Hollywood for 29 years. In that career, there are only two roles that I can identify in which he didn't play a variation on his "Jason Bateman" character, which is to say: Sly, dry wit and a personality halfway between ridiculously charming and spectacularly douchy. Those two roles were his first, as a kid in "Little House on the Prarie" and a...

If angels are indeed the new vampires, as Dustin commented on earlier, then we've got something to look forward to: more remakes! Okay, that doesn't sound so good, and honestly we don't need another go at The Bishop's Wife, Angels in the Outfield or Wings of Desire, all of which were terribly redone in the '90s. But there is one film in particular that will perfectly fit with the whole teeny bopper demographic and be a welcome rehash.

I'm talking about Date with an Angel, which proved writer-director Tom McLoughlin was capable of making an even worse movie than Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. Basically a rip-off of Splash with a hot angel instead of a hot mermaid, Date with an Angel stars soap actor Michael E. Knight, French actress Emmanuelle Beart and Phoebe Cates, who looks as bad here as she looks good in Fast Times at Ridgemont High...

From Hollywood Crush: Tired of vampires and werewolves yet? So may be Hollywood, where there seems to be a scramble to figure out what kind of fantastical creature will be the next big thing. A few months ago, we thought faeries were taking over. But now The Hollywood Reporter is claiming “angels have been identified as the next trend in young-adult fiction.”

Evidence of this supposed craze comes with the announcement that Disney is bringing Lauren Kate’s new young-adult novel “Fallen” to the big screen. The book, which is the first of a four-part series, involves a love triangle between a teen girl and two guys, both of whom are fallen angels.

Sounds like “Twilight” with cherubim, and I can already envision the “Team Daniel” and “Team Cam” t-shirts aligned to each of the angelic suitors. Angels as love interests is hardly a new concept, of course, with films like “The Bishop’s Wife,...