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Categories Movies

Neil LaBute’s House of Darkness

Posted on January 12, 2023January 14, 2023by Jon Romeo
Mina, Lucy, and Nora stand over Hap's bleeding body
Neil LaBute’s debut feature film In the Company of Men (1997) hit independent cinema like a sledgehammer. In the Company of Men is a portrait of male toxicity. It’s about two busin…
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Three That Got Away In 2022 Part III: Gatlopp

Posted on January 5, 2023by Jon Romeo
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Gatlopp: Hell of a Game Board games as a portal to Hell or a conduit for something bad to manifest in the world isn’t a new concept. What’s a ouija board but a board game? How man…
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Three That Got Away in 2022 Part II: Dead For A Dollar

Posted on January 5, 2023by Jon Romeo
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DEAD FOR A DOLLAR     Walter Hill’s filmography reads like a genre fan’s dream. He was producer on every Alien movie in the franchise. He wrote, as well as directed, The Warriors,…
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Three That Got Away In 2022 Part I: Alice

Posted on January 5, 2023by Jon Romeo
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ALICE We first meet Alice (Keke Palmer) as an enslaved woman on a plantation in the deep South. Director Krystin Ver Linden sets the scene as one would imagine life on a plantatio…
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A Brief Post on Children of Men

Posted on November 16, 2022by Jon Romeo
Soldiers make room for Kee and Theo
Children of Men is one of the bleakest movies of the 21st Century so far. It starts with a random bombing of a coffee house and the death of the last child born on earth, Baby Dieg…
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Firestarter vs Firestarter, Remake vs Original

Posted on November 5, 2022January 24, 2023by Jon Romeo
The two Firestarters
It would not break my heart if it was ruled by some cinema governing body that remakes, whether a classic movie or a movie no one had ever heard of, were outlawed. Too bad this wil…
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Possessor, Brandon Cronenberg’s Nightmare Reality

Posted on October 29, 2022October 29, 2022by Jon Romeo
Colin under the influence
Possessor, Brandon Cronenberg’s second feature film, is a nasty little affair. You will be immediately sucked into it after the opening scene of a woman dressed as cheerleader kill…
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Wayne Wang, A Retrospective Review

Posted on October 2, 2022by Jon Romeo
Wayne Wang smiles for the camera
It can be argued that Wayne Wang sparked the independent cinema movement of the 80’s. Yes, independent cinema was around long before Wang came on the scene. The first decades in th…
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Rewind: The Destructive Nature of Cults in Martha Marcy May Marlene

Posted on August 24, 2022August 24, 2022by Jon Romeo
Martha sits on the floor after making a phone call in Martha Marcy May Marlene
We’ve all seen documentaries on cults. Whether it’s a documentary on Jim Jones taking advantage of the poor and vulnerable or Keith Raniere taking advantage of the rich and vulnera…
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Resident Evil Streams On Netflix With a Resounding Whimper

Posted on July 28, 2022by Jon Romeo
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Netflix’s new Resident Evil series seems a million miles away from the series of games it shares a name with and only a fleeting similarity with the Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evi…
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