Jon Romeo

Robert Redford In 1972, Robert Redford starred in three movies. One was a heist movie, the other a political comedy of sorts, and the third was a movie that fits comfortable betwe…

We're taking a break from our journey through the best picture nominees of the 1973 Academy Awards to visit other movies released in 1972. Some of these movies weren't nominated fo…

Are you ready for some high steps, goose steps, smoke filled rooms, a dancing gorilla, and a very creepy Joel Grey? Then join us back at the 1973 Academy Awards when the Best Pictu…

It's 1972, we're traveling by ox drawn cart, ship, horse driven wagon, a Mississippi steamboat, and on foot. Where are we headed? Where are we bound? The 1973 Academy Awards where …

1972 was a banner year for cinema. Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway hit the big screen. Clint Eastwood was Joe Kidd. Charlton Heston directed himself and Hildegard Neil (who passed away…

We are proud and honored to announce that the brains behind the Best Picture This podcast have allowed us to carry on their good work in the "pages" of A Mind On Fire. If you haven…

All I wanted to do when I was kid was draw. My Ma would send me to school with a cheap stack of paper and a huge bag of crayons and markers so I wouldn’t draw on quizzes and tests.…

Lorcan Finnegan’s last feature,Vivarium, was a mind bending statement on suburbia. Nocebo, Finnegan’s latest feature, couldn’t be more different from Vivarium or Without Name, his …

Kurt Wimmer’s Children of the Corn (2023) bears little resemblance to 1984’s original or to Stephen King’s story. To be fair, the SyFy Channel’s 2009 version bore little similariti…

(There’s spoilers ahead but when you’re done you can turn the dial to a time when you hadn’t read this piece. No time loop created.) Indiana Jones fans have been expected to accep…