Before she was an Oscar winner and Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullock was in the charming…
The Film Canon
A series of articles and reviews of older movies that have entered, well, the film canon, for being creatively or culturally important. Everything from Citizen Kane to The Breakfast Club to Fargo to The Dark Knight. So we can all create a diverse list of essential movies for the young folk cinephiles to watch
The Film Canon: Legally Blonde (2001)
“You got into Harvard Law School?” “What? Like it’s hard?” Reese Witherspoon’s breakout role was…
The Film Canon: Dead Poets Society (1989)
Peter Weir’s 1989 classic, Dead Poets Society, is one of those films that never leaves…
The Film Canon: Pigs and Battleships (1961)
A stampede of pigs careens its way down the streets of Yokosuka, smashing, crashing, bashing…
The Film Canon: Sabotage (1936)
In 1936 Alfred Hitchcock’s name was not yet immortalized as the Master of Suspense, but…
The Film Canon: The Insider (1999)
Is your life really worth the death of hundreds of thousands of people every year?…
