The Beast Must Die is the first horror movie I ever watched. I saw it on a Sunday afternoon. My dad let a buddy of mine and I tune in. For years after, the only thing I remembered about it is a rich guy invited a group of people to his estate, and one of them was a werewolf. Naturally, he wanted to kill it. The movie terrified me. I couldn't sleep for weeks after, convinced a werewolf was under my bed or hiding in my closet. I think I was eight at the time. My wife found a DVD copy of the movie and gave it to me for my birthday. I hadn't seen it in like 40 years and, watching it again, not one chill was generated. Nor did I expect it. But this is still a fun bit of nostalgia. Made at the height of the Blaxploitation era, Beast features Calvin Lockhart as the lead, and it's refreshing to see a black man as the hero, especially in light of current world affairs. And he's pretty good. I sure wouldn't want to mess with him! My eight-year-old self had no idea P...

Jason here. It's Father's Day, my first as a dad (woot!), and in honour of The Man Who Taught Me Everything There Is To Know About Being A Man, I thought I'd pay him homage be celebrating one of the many loves he instilled in me at a young age -- a love of film. Dad has been dead 21 years now, more than half my life, but his love of movies lives on. He was a big guy, a contractor, and he loved his hockey. But he enjoyed film as well. Some of my favourite memories of him are the times we went to the movies. If he hadn't introduced me to the films below, I wouldn't have become a student of film and this site/show/podcast probably wouldn't exist. So Happy Father's Day to my dad and all the other dads out there. Make it a good one! Star Wars: My dad saw this with my mom in Hawaii before he took me to it, and called it the best Western ever made. You guessed it, Han Solo was the man to him. I remember seeing it at a local drive-in. We sat in the cab of hi...