Canon of Film

In this edition of CANON OF FILM, we honor the release of 'Ready Player One' by taking a look at Steven Spielberg's return to blockbuster filmmaking by exploring the director's roots with the classic, 'Jaws'. Hit the jump to read onward.

In this edition of CANON OF FILM, we honor the release of 'Ready Player One' by taking a look at Steven Spielberg's return to blockbuster filmmaking by exploring one of the director's more recent forays into Science Fiction with 'Minority Report'. Hit the jump to read more!

I can’t be the only person who considers 'The Royal Tenenbaums' to easily be Wes Anderson’s best film, but it seems like I am most days. I’ve heard arguments from other people for pretty much all his other movies, yet I’m the one who always had to make the argument for 'The Royal Tenenbaums'. Hit the jump to find out why I think it's his best film.

I’ve always watched the 'The Breakfast Club' as a more metaphorically commentary on high school, but the interesting part is that the film seems to comment that high school really isn’t of that much of importance, which is right, although it does influences everything else that happens in our life.

At some point, it went from cool to cliche to say that you were a fan of 'Dark City'. I think it's well-respected and well-known enough now, but at one point in time, even people who thought they really knew sci-fi and all the famous archetypal elements and the films that created them like Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' or Kubrick's, '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Hit the jump to read on.

'2001: A Space Odyssey' recently ranked #6 by the Critics and #2 by Directors on “Sight & Sound” magazines Greatest Movie polls, strange considering how the reaction was mixed originally, and panned by many. It was definitely an anomaly in its time.

As the nation heads towards another election shortly, the national debate has become strikingly philosophical. Phrases like "Family Values" and "The Role of Government" always come up, never has the divide, in my memory, been so drastic. It's at times like these, that I find myself thinking about Gary Ross's film 'Pleasantville'.