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The Many Issues With The Many Saints of Newark

Posted on October 3, 2021by Jon Romeo
Dickie decides in The Many Saints of Newark
We live in a time when every character needs an origin story and every franchise needs a prequel. Whether this need is based on actual audience demand or if it's a demand created b…
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The Exorcist Scaring Audiences For More Than Forty Years

Posted on July 5, 2021by Jon Romeo
Regan Possessed by Pazuzu
The Exorcist and New Hollywood The Seventies was a great decade for movies. Directors like Francis For Coppola, Bob Rafelson, and Hal Ashby were creating movies with a freedom uns…
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The Cinema of Revenge Part Three: The Rhythm Section, I Saw The Devil, Violation

Posted on June 2, 2021by Jon Romeo
Title Card for I Saw the Devil
Revenge, as they say, is a dish best served cold. In the movie world it’s also served hot with blood, bullets, guns, and knives. It comes in explosions and implosions. It's sliced …
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The Troubles, The Commitments, and The Criterion Collection

Posted on March 31, 2021March 31, 2021by Jon Romeo
The 80s and 90s seemed, from an outward looking perspective, to be dominated by the ongoing conflict between the IRA (Irish Republican Army, used here as a catch-all for the differ…
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Red River Stampedes Through The National Film Registry

Posted on January 18, 2021by Jon Romeo
Red River has been called the greatest Western of all time. Discounting Howard Hawk's clean up job on Howard Hughes's The Outlaw, Red River was his first foray in the Western genre…
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That’s No Dog: A Re-Examination of The Thing 2011 And The Future Remake

Posted on January 3, 2021by Jon Romeo
Norwegian shoots a dog from his helicopter
John Carpenter's The Thing was not a critical or commercial success when it was originally released in 1982. It was only after repeated showings on pay cable channels and VHS that …
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Wonder Woman 1984: A Movie For The End Of A Horrible Year

Posted on December 29, 2020by Jon Romeo
Wonder Woman flying through the sky
(We've lassoed up some spoilers so we have to tell you the truth) After more than a year of delays and constant social media reminders of delays, Wonder Woman 1984 finally dropped …
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Silence of the Lambs And The Cheap Ploy of Hannibal Lecter

Posted on November 11, 2020November 17, 2020by Jon Romeo
Clarice gets her assignment in Silence of the Lambs
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS We're a culture obsessed with murder and murderers, serial killers to be more precise. We know them by their nicknames: The Son of Sam, BTK, The Green Riv…
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Sergeant York And World War II Propaganda

Posted on October 21, 2020October 22, 2020by Jon Romeo
Front cover of Sergeant York Blu-ray
WORLD WAR I To say World War I started only because Serbians assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand is an over simplification of a much bigger issue. It's a high school textbook re…
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Kids, Cuties, and the Last Temptation of Movies

Posted on September 14, 2020October 22, 2020by Jon Romeo
Amy poses for Cuties poster
CUTIES It’s not often I feel the need to defend a movie. Defending a movie isn’t my job, it’s the job of the studios, the director, the writers, the actors, and other people invol…
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