Jon Romeo

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…

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…

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…

Unforgiven was released in August of 1992. It would go on to win four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. In 2004 it was added to The National Film Registry for perman…

It’s safe to say there’s never been a movie quite like To Sleep So As To Dream. It’s a silent movie with sound. It’s a movie within a movie. It’s a magical tour with fantastical el…

For most of the movie going public martial arts* movies begin with Bruce Lee and end with either Jackie Chan or Jet Li. For others, martial arts is something that occurs in a movie…

Every genre has a defining movie or the movie that brought the genre back from the dead. Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and its special effects defined science fiction for…

Certain movies and genres have aspects about them that separate them from the rest of the pack. Italian and giallo horror movies, one is not necessarily the other, seem to separate…

Red Angel opens with the sounds of war- explosions, gun fire, men screaming- accompanied by still images bombs going off, marching toops, and human skulls. These are Chinese bombs …

(Spoiler free as possible) Sleep. Some of us get enough of it while others don’t. For those with insomnia it’s a precious commodity. With sleep one hopes dreams will come. Scientis…