Film School for Dad

Fight Club is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher, and written by Jim Uhls, based on a book by Chuck Palahniuk. It stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bottom Carter, and… er… Meatloaf. Part...

Roger Dodger was a 2002 independent film written and directed by first time film-maker Dylan Kidd. It starred Campbell Scott in a very underrated performance as the titular Roger, and Jessie Eisenberg in his first...

Magnolia is a 1999 film starring Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, William H Macy and an amazing ensemble cast that all deserve to get mentioned on that same level, but at 3 hours running time, we...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a 2011 film starring James Franco, Frieda Pinto and a monkey named Ceasar played (virtually) by Andy Serkis. Notable for being one of the earliest films to...

Unforgiven is a 1992 film starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. It was written by David Web Peoples, but it’s very much a “Clint Eastwood film”. Sometimes described as the film that “broke...

Peter Weir’s Jim Carrey vehicle “The Truman Show” came just as reality TV was overtaking the airwaves and invading our living rooms — and as such was almost prescient in its depiction of a man...

PI is a 1998 indie film starring Sean Gillette, Mark Margolis and Ben Shenkman, and directed by Darren Aronofsky. Made for a mere $30,000 5 years after Aronofsky graduated film school, it unexpectedly explored ideas...

The Matrix is about as genre defining as film gets. It broke box office records, captured a generation and became a symbol for awakening to spiritual gurus and conspiracy theorists alike. But do the allegorical...

Welcome to our special Father’s Day episode of Film School for Dad! Coco is a 2017 Disney Pixar film starring Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Alana Ubach and a whole bunch of other people with...

8 Mile is a 2002 musical drama directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Marshal Mathers (Eminem), Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer and Britanny Murphy (RIP). While telling the story of a character that closely parallels Eminem’s...

Jerry Maguire was a 1996 Cameron Crowe film starring Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger and Cuba Gooding Jr. When it was released, it received critical attention for showing a different side of Tom Cruise and featuring...

Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind is a 2004 romantic comedy collaboration between director Michel Gondry and writer Charlie Kaufman, starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. It caught the attention of critics with it’s out-of-the-box...

Back to the Future was a landmark 1980’s film for many of a certain generation. Not only did it include a dynamic sci-fi plot and cutting edge effects, it captured the tone and style of...

Memento launched the career of Christopher Nolan and blew the minds of audiences everywhere with its intelligent storytelling style and narrative gimmick. But even now that audiences have seen dozens of wannabe copycats, does it...