“Now you will see a film,” the young red lips tell us, “made for children.”…
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: Casablanca (1942)
Winner of three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director and Screenplay) and responsible for some of…
The Film Canon: Working Girl (1988)
After watching Dakota Johnson in Fifty Shades of Grey recently, I couldn’t help but be…
The Film Canon: The Killer (1989)
The assassin sits alone in the church, quite, contemplative, and silent. Lightning flashes in the…
The Film Canon: The Wedding Planner (2001)
You might have noticed a pattern in the latest installments of The Film Canon. Being…
The Film Canon: The Princess Diaries (2001)
I can’t say that I was exempt from that desire of wanting to be a…
The Film Canon: Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
“Mother! Bring me into the world,” the child cries from within his mother’s womb. “A…
