The Film Canon: Star Wars (1977)

It feels a little silly to include Star Wars in a compendium of films you must see, if only because it’s a given that everyone’s already seen it. When someone tells me they haven’t seen Star Wars, I briefly consider…

NYCC 2012: What I’m Looking Forward to Seeing

October 11-14th marks the 2012 New York Comic Con at the Javits Center in New York City, and by golly ain’t I excited! (That really works if you pull that off with a 9 year old newsboy kind of accent).…

The Avengers and the Survival of the Cinema

Every few weeks, an article entitled “Death of the Cinema” or “Death of Film Criticism” materializes on some film blog. “The cinema is dying! Young people don’t go to the movies! They’re not made like they used to be,” they…