With San Diego Comic Con only days away, it’s somewhat obligatory to discuss the comic…
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: The Great Silence (1968)
At first glance there is little to distinguish between Jean-Louis Trintignant’s spaghetti western protagonist ‘Silence’…
The Film Canon: The General (1926)
Long before Buster Keaton’s train engineer sat on his beloved train’s pistons as they rotated…
15 Years On and the Influence of ’28 Days Later’ Still Shows
For a genre about reanimating the dead, zombies were staying underground for the most part…
The Film Canon: Sleepless in Seattle 25th Anniversary
I was quite surprised to find out that Sleepless in Seattle was celebrating its 25th…
Revisiting “The Glory Days”: A Look Back at The Incredibles
For nearly a decade, the film output of Pixar was primarily conceived from the minds…
Film Canon : The Heroic Ones [1970]
There are many Revisionist Westerns and there are many Revisionist chanbara, but there are very…
