Jon Romeo

(WATCH OUT. THERE’S SPOILERS FLOATING OUT THERE) Some people have made the argument that we’re in, or have gone through depending on who you ask, a new golden age of television. Ot…

On the Waterfront is arguably one of the greatest movies ever committed to film. It won eight of the twelve Oscars it was nominated for at the 1955 Academy Awards. The movie and it…

SUPERMAN Decades before CGI filled extravaganzas, before connected universes, and billion dollar box office returns Richard Donner made us believe a man could fly. Superman flew o…

SIXTEEN CANDLES As a director John Hughes didn't leave a vast body work. It would only be a guessing game as to what else he would have created if not for his untimely death in 20…

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 …

(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 …

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…

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…

Days of Wine and Roses Days of Wine and Roses (1962), directed by Blake Edwards, wasn’t the first movie to tackle the subject of alcoholism.Lionel Rogosin’s On the Bowery (1956) d…

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…