The Canon: An Essential Movies Watchlist

Beware of fauns! This episode features a deep dive of Guillermo del Toro's modern fantasy classic. Raf is joined by the writing/producing/directing creative team Armand Brescia and Sam Gilberg. Together, they discuss why Pan's Labyrinth still resonates so strongly, Sam and Armand's production company (New Angel Productions, and whether The Beatles are still considered cool.

Read the full Canon entry on ScreenAge Wasteland:

https://screenagewasteland.com/lets-talk-about-pans-labyrinth-2006/

Watch A Shore, award winning short film co-directed by Armand and Sam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7wikpbCwUQ&ab_channel=NewAngelProductionsTM

Our very first silent movie! It's about damn time! Sailor Monsoon joins Raf to talk about DW Griffith's monumental masterpiece. Also in this episode: Raf suggests modern directors to make silent movies, Sailor butchers some German pronunciation, and we offer our first giveaway.

Read the full Canon entry on ScreenAge Wasteland:

https://screenagewasteland.com/lets-talk-about-intolerance-1916/

Come with us if you want to live! The Terminator is peak 80's action awesomeness. It's got time travel, a pet iguana, and a nightclub named Tech-Noir. Duke and Dhal join Raf in the latest installment of The Canon to discuss how a James Cameron fever dream ended up giving us one of the most iconic movies of all time.

Read the full Canon entry on ScreenAge Wasteland:

https://screenagewasteland.com/lets-talk-about-the-terminator-1984/

Come play with us! The Canon ends its Halloween month celebration with Stanley Kubrick's 1980 classic. Friend of the show and ScreenAge Wasteland's resident horror expert, Bob Cram, is back to chat with Raf about how the movie stacks up against the book, nightmares about the woman in room 237, and whether Kubrick really filmed the moon landing. Also, Raf reveals his unhealthy obsession with all things The Shining.

Read the full Canon entry on ScreenAge Wasteland:

https://screenagewasteland.com/lets-talk-about-the-shining-1980/

What the heck is that Thing?! The Canon continues its celebration of the season of spooks with John Carpenter's classic creature feature. Screenwriter Connor McKnight joins Raf to discuss paranoia, isolation, existential dread, and whether a movie about all of those things can have a happy ending. Oh and also, those practical effects in this movie are wild.

Read the full Canon entry on ScreenAge Wasteland:

https://screenagewasteland.com/lets-talk-about-the-thing-1982/

They're coming for you! Spooktober continues with George A. Romero's classic from 1968. To celebrate the granddaddy of all modern zombie movies, Raf is joined by friends of the show Matt Miller and Simon Staples-Vangel. Also in this episode: does the gore in this movie hold up, are Michael Bay and Zack Snyder auteurs, and what's up with all of Simon's trivia nuggets?

Read the full Canon entry on ScreenAge Wasteland:

https://screenagewasteland.com/lets-talk-about-night-of-the-living-dead-1968/

Witches! Raf is joined by ScreenAge Wasteland’s horror aficionado, Bob Cram to discuss Dario Argento’s classic giallo horror. Suspiria is monumental within the genre and the pinnacle of Italian horror. Raf and Bob also discuss Halloween traditions, when it’s okay to start watching spooky movies, and how much pumpkin spice is too much pumpkin spice.

Read the full Canon entry on ScreenAge Wasteland:

https://screenagewasteland.com/lets-talk-about-suspiria-1977/

Buy Bob’s book of horror reviews here:

https://www.amazon.com/31-Days-Horror-Movies-vol/dp/1092187537/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1696366084&sr=1-5

October is right around the corner! Halloween season is almost upon us. To kick off the season, Sailor Monsoon and Romona Comet join Raf to talk about the classic Stephen King adaptation. The crew discusses why Brian De Palma was the perfect guy for the job, why high school is so scary, and how Carrie the book almost never came to be. Sailor and Raf also debate whether Terrence Malick is a great filmmaker.

Read the full Canon entry on ScreenAge Wasteland:

https://screenagewasteland.com/lets-talk-about-carrie-1976/

High school reunions can get weird! Especially if you're a hitman back in town for an assigned kill. ScreenAge Wasteland and Canon pod vets Romona Comet and Bob Cram Jr. are back to convince Raf that this 1997 action rom-com deserves it's place in The Canon. Give it a listen and decide for yourself.

Read the full Canon entry on ScreenAge Wasteland:

https://screenagewasteland.com/lets-talk-about-grosse-pointe-blank-1997/

The ecstasy of gold! Sean and Sean of the S Rank Podcast (@SRankPod on Twitter) are back. The Seans join Raf to talk about Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti western. Also, Sean Welsh talks about his striking experience as a SAG-AFTRA member and other Sean aka NoBananaSuits discusses shake ups in the world of Twitch streaming. There's also a lot of conversation about how cool Clint Eastwood is in this movie.

Read the full Canon entry on ScreenAge Wasteland:

https://screenagewasteland.com/lets-talk-about-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966/