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Categories Movies

Remakes No One Asked For Part Two: Rabid

Posted on April 13, 2020by Jon Romeo
Movie posters for Rabid
Not even famed director David Cronenberg is safe from the remake madness. One of his first features was the plastic surgery gone wrong movie Rabid. Now more than forty years after …
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Remakes No One Asked For Part One: Jacob’s Ladder

Posted on April 12, 2020April 13, 2020by Jon Romeo
Posters for both Jacob's Ladder movies
(Spoilers Ahead) I’m not necessarily opposed to remakes. I’m not necessarily in favor of remakes. I question why studios remake movies and especially why Hollywood remakes classic …
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Categories Movies

The National Film Registry: The Exiles

Posted on March 28, 2020by Jon Romeo
Homer and Tommy walking down a street
I had never heard of The Exiles before we started our journey through the National Film Registry. However, I had heard of Sherman Alexie whose name is featured prominently on the D…
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Categories Movies

National Film Registry Review: The Lost Weekend

Posted on March 3, 2020by Jon Romeo
Movie poster for The Lost Weekend
Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend starts with one of the most famous opening shots in cinema history. The scene opens with a view of the New York City skyline. The camera tracks alon…
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National Film Registry Review: Days of Wine and Roses

Posted on February 8, 2020by Jon Romeo
Kristen walking away from her husband in Days of Wine and Roses
In the past, alcoholism was a subject that was danced around. It wasn’t something people talked about in “polite society.” There were treatments of sorts for people who were lookin…
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A Hidden Life

Posted on January 13, 2020by Jon Romeo
Franz Jagerstatter working the fields in A Hidden Life
Terrance Malick all but disappeared from the cinematic landscape after the release of 1978’s Days of Heaven. Twenty years later Malick returned with one of the greatest anti-war mo…
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Categories TV

Twin Peaks Z To A Walk Through of Twin Peaks

Posted on December 26, 2019by Jon Romeo
certificate of authenticity of the Twin Peaks Z to A box set
TWIN PEAKS: THE SERIES "Going fishing" is the first line of the first episode of Twink Peaks. It's not as iconic as other lines that would spring up over the course of two seasons…
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Midsommar A Winter Watch Of Summer Horror

Posted on December 18, 2019by Jon Romeo
Dani smiling at the end of Midsommar
(We've danced up some spoilers) Ari Aster made a splash with his debut horror movie Hereditary. Hereditary, like all good films, has many levels to it. The hook was the demonic pos…
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Horror At Christmas With I Trapped The Devil

Posted on December 8, 2019December 21, 2020by Jon Romeo
movie poster for I Trapped the Devil
(We’ve unwrapped a few spoilers) Most of the movies we get around the holidays are full of bright lights, tinsel, and someone learning the “true meaning” of Christmas. How many tim…
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Martin Scorsese, The National Film Registry, And Office Space

Posted on November 18, 2019by Jon Romeo
National Film Registry Logo
I’ve said to more than one friend that there’s a difference between a movie and a film. I wasn’t always able to articulate what I meant so I would give examples. Avengers: Age of U…
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