By 1960 close to 90% of American households owned a television set. This little bit of trivia plays a significant role in Joe Dante’s period comedy, s…
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: Unbreakable (2000)
With San Diego Comic Con only days away, it’s somewhat obligatory to discuss the comic book movie genre. For nearly two decades now, the genre h…
The Film Canon: The Great Silence (1968)
At first glance there is little to distinguish between Jean-Louis Trintignant’s spaghetti western protagonist ‘Silence’ and Clint Eastwood’s ‘Man with…
The Film Canon: The General (1926)
Long before Buster Keaton’s train engineer sat on his beloved train’s pistons as they rotated up and down,the locomotive had already graced moving ima…
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 from the late 80’s through the whole 90’s. Day …
The Film Canon: Sleepless in Seattle 25th Anniversary
I was quite surprised to find out that Sleepless in Seattle was celebrating its 25th year of release, a perfect match as my 25th year comes closer int…
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 of animators already working at the studio like John Lasseter (To…