Jon Romeo

The Western Past It wasn't long after Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope and the Lumiere Brothers's Cinemtographe projected the first moving images onto a screen audiences were being ent…

T.S. Elliot wrote the world will end not with a bang but with a whimper. For much of its history, whether in Things to Come (1936) or Netflix's recent How it Ends, Hollywood has de…

I live in a mid-size city. There's a university located here with a football team that has seen better days. Five minutes away is a major government facility with thousands of empl…

With season two of David Fincher's Mindhunter right around the corner it's time we got back to our review of David Fincher's filmography. Please enjoy Part III of our director seri…

Physical Media vs. Streaming It's no secret, we like our physical media. Blu-ray and DVD sales have taken a hit as more people sign on for various streaming services. There is not…

  A Clockwork Orange was met with a chilly reception upon its original release. Roger Ebert called the movie a "an ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy." Pauline…

Oh, how we love a good Christmas tale. We love Christmas tales that warm the heart, but we also love Christmas tales that chill the blood. Saint Nick almost fits the bill for some …

Mandy is the latest movie by Panos Cosmatos. Cosmatos's last film was 2010's Beyond the Black Rainbow. For the uninitiated Beyond the Black Rainbow is a  psychedelic trip of a girl…

DVDs and Blu Rays may not be selling like they did a few years ago. The decline in sales has everything to do with the rise of streaming serives like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Sal…

CHRISTMAS, IT'S THE MOST TERRIFYING TIME OF THE YEAR Traditional Christmas movies are boring. If you've seen one you've seen them all. Your basic, traditional Christmas movie goes…