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

10 Years Later: Still No Country for Old Men

It’s been ten years since the release of what some might refer to as Joel…

Dirty Dancing: 30 Years Later

“That was the summer of 1963” opens Dirty Dancing, a movie that set out to…

The Film Canon: Spider-Man 2 (2004)

What a world of difference there is between the superhero blockbuster of today and the…

The Film Canon: The Last Unicorn (1982)

Some movies just stay with you. Admittedly, I didn’t rewatch The Last Unicorn over and…

The Film Canon: Bad Lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant, set in a particularly grimy-looking New York, lugs around enough Catholic-guilt, crooked cops,…

The Film Canon: The Fly (1986)

David Cronenberg has long established himself to be a maverick in the world of film…

A Scanner Darkly: 10 Year Anniversary

In the author’s note of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly the author states, “drug…