Anthony Sacramone

Writer of fun things. Cinefile. Britcom fanatic. Professional Jai Alai Speller.

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Hail, Caesar!

Dreaming of Star Wars

Daredevil: The Netflix Series

Atlas Shrugged: Parts I-III

Captain America

The Progressive Death of Comedy

This Is You on the Wrong Side of History

Twelve Films That Defined America

Twelve Funniest Books Ever Written

Tyranny on Screen

Seven Must-See Politically Incorrect Films

5 Films Strangely About Faith

Classical Music in Classic Films

The Incredible Hulk, the Philokalia, and Anger Management

The Happening

A Mirror Darkly, by Thomas S. Hibbs

There Will Be Blood

Goya’s Ghosts

Apocalypto, et al.

A Mainline Bishop Explains It All for You

A Christian at the Movies

A Mirror Darkly (Review of Arts of Darkness: American Noir and the Quest for Redemption by Thomas S. Hibbs)

Sly Magazine DVD Reviews

“Donald Reed Mathewson: The Voice Heard ‘Round the World” (Delaware Today)

“Guillermina Gonzalez and the Serious Business of Art ” (Delaware Today)

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- And So It Goes December 15, 2015
- A Strange Review: Creed November 25, 2015
- The Greatest Letter Ever Written? November 16, 2015
- That Time I Worked for Rambo November 7, 2015
- Jillian Melchior, Superstar November 7, 2015
- I’d Avoid This Club if I Were You September 8, 2015
- A Strange Review: W1A September 2, 2015
- Idris Elba and the James Bond Kerfuffle September 1, 2015
- A Very Strange Preview: Sergio Leone’s “The Siege of Leningrad” September 1, 2015
- Strange Quote of the Day: Ronda Rousey September 1, 2015
- R.I.P. Alex Rocco July 19, 2015
- Somebody Down Here Likes Him July 12, 2015
- The Superman Movie That Never Got Made, Thank Goodness July 6, 2015
- Read This Not That This Summer July 4, 2015
- Socialism as Transableism July 4, 2015
- A Strange Preview: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Downslope’ June 25, 2015
- R.I.P. Dick Van Patten June 24, 2015
- The Rebirth of an Indie Bookstore June 20, 2015
- Are We Living in Orwell’s World or Lewis Carroll’s? June 10, 2015
- A Strange Review: Cut Bank June 9, 2015
- This Ethnic Group Got So Tired of Being Depicted as a Bunch of Terrorists, It Did This June 6, 2015
- A Plea for Insanity June 4, 2015
- Twenty Almost Good Song Titles June 2, 2015
- “Tomorrowland”: Signifying Nothing May 30, 2015
- Taxi Driver Starring Woody Allen May 29, 2015
- Community: Breaking the Fourth Wall and the Last Taboo May 27, 2015
- Inside Jokes You May Have Missed Inside Big Movies May 27, 2015
- A Strange Review: Lucy May 24, 2015
- Industrial Light and Magic: An Appreciation May 21, 2015
- Saying Good-bye to David Letterman May 19, 2015
- Martin Scorsese’s 2013 Jefferson Lecture May 18, 2015
- Mad Max: Fury Road—The WORST Movie Experience of My Life May 14, 2015
- Scotsman Armando Iannucci to Deliver MacTaggart Lecture May 12, 2015
- Orson Welles at the Kosher Deli May 12, 2015
- The Stan Lee School of Cameo Acting April 28, 2015
- The Greatest Chase Scene in Cinema History April 25, 2015
- This Is What I Call Italian Takeout April 17, 2015
- IN HIS HEAD April 14, 2015
- 15 Almost Great Movie Lines April 11, 2015
- “You Want It. I Think I Had to Have It.” March 25, 2015
- Framing Images March 22, 2015
- Face to Face with Evelyn Waugh February 11, 2015
- The True Scandal of This Year’s Oscar Nominations… January 15, 2015
- A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman March 15, 2014
- Is This the Worst Sitcom in the History of Sitting? March 15, 2014
- A Strange Postview: Lars and the Real Girl February 17, 2014
- Your Showman of Showmen Is Dead February 12, 2014
- A Strange Detective: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother January 26, 2014
- A Strange Review: Inside Llewyn Davis January 11, 2014
- A Strange Review: The Great Beauty December 27, 2013
- A Strange Review: Grudge Match December 26, 2013
- A Strange Review: American Hustle December 24, 2013
- A Strange Review: Anchorman 2—The Legend Continues December 21, 2013
- One Tin Soldier Dead at 82 December 15, 2013
- In Honor of the Late, Great Peter O’Toole December 15, 2013
- A Strange Audition: Robert De Niro as Sonny Corleone December 4, 2013
- For Those of You Headed to the Movies This Weekend November 30, 2013
- A Strange Blooper Reel: The Avengers November 21, 2013
- Bob Newhart at the National Press Club, 1995 November 7, 2013
- Once Again, Der Fuhrer Explains It All for You October 31, 2013
- One More NYC Icon Bites the High-Rent Dust October 29, 2013
- A Strange Preview: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology October 28, 2013
- A Strange Review: Gravity October 6, 2013
- The Galaxy’s Largest Collection of Star Wars Memorabilia September 15, 2013
- Please Don’t Drop the Internet September 2, 2013
- A Strange Review: Closed Circuit August 31, 2013
- The Late Elmore Leonard on His Writing Process August 21, 2013
- A Strange Review: Jobs August 17, 2013
- A Strange Postview: The Day the Clown Cried August 12, 2013
- Eileen Brennan: 1932-2013 July 30, 2013
- A Strange Review: The Way, Way Back July 17, 2013
- An Interview with Gene Wilder: June 13, 2013 July 9, 2013
- A Strange Review: Kumare July 7, 2013
- A Strange Review: Man of Steel June 15, 2013
- The Deep Dark Secrets of Return of the Jedi May 27, 2013
- A Strange Review: Star Trek into Darkness May 24, 2013
- A Strange Review: Iron Man 3 May 3, 2013
- A Strange Review: Oblivion April 20, 2013
- We Are All Harry Knowles April 2, 2013
- And You Thought You Understood What Was Going on in The Shining March 28, 2013
- A Strange Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone March 23, 2013
- Speaking of the Late, Great Tony Randall… March 22, 2013
- The Most Important Thing You Need to Know About the New ‘Star Trek’ Movie Is . . . March 21, 2013
- The Funniest Sketch in the History of Sketch Funny March 21, 2013
- Quick Takes on a Bunch of Film-Type Moving Pictures March 9, 2013
- Every 007 Film Cut into One Giant Bond Flick* November 11, 2012
- How Walker Percy’s ‘The Moviegoer’ Won the National Book Award and Other Acts of Brutality November 5, 2012
- The Pope, James Bond, and Me November 1, 2012
- 13 Hitchcock Films You’ve Never Seen. Because They Were Never Made. October 29, 2012
- Forget Obama and Romney: Here’s Why You Should Elect a Comic Book Supervillain October 21, 2012
- A Strange Review: Seven Psychopaths October 20, 2012
- A Strange Review: Argo October 12, 2012
- Why We Should All Hate Big Bird October 10, 2012
- ‘Holy Flying Circus’ October 8, 2012
- Quotes of the Day: Ignazio Silone October 8, 2012
- Happy Columbus Day Observed! October 8, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Master October 6, 2012
- The Invisible Man October 5, 2012
- The Real Count of Monte Cristo Meets the Real Tom Sawyer October 2, 2012
- A Strange Review: Arbitrage September 29, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Bourne Legacy September 29, 2012
- Movie Protested for Pitching Hope for Public Schools September 27, 2012
- ‘Your Brain on Pseudoscience’: The New Statesman Slaps Down Gladwell, Harris, Mooney & Ilk September 25, 2012
- Strange Quote of the Day: Fyodor Dostoyevsky September 25, 2012
- Strange Quote of the Day: Anthony Burgess September 24, 2012
- Strange Quote of the Day: Spike Milligan September 23, 2012
- The Ig Nobel Award Winners of 2012! September 21, 2012
- Strange Quote of the Day: Rajesh Koothrappali September 21, 2012
- ‘Popcorn Lung’ Victim Wins $7 Million Judgment, Next Up ‘Sno-Cap Bladder’ September 20, 2012
- Talk Like Chester A. Arthur Day September 19, 2012
- Would Somebody Please Explain This Phenomenon to Me September 19, 2012
- Strange Quote of the Day: Slavoj Zizek September 16, 2012
- Now the Director of ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Says He’s Innocent, Thought He Was Replacing Tony Scott on ‘Top Gun II’ September 15, 2012
- Miserable Waffle-Flippers to Fine Insults September 9, 2012
- Attention, Screwballs: Area 51 Secrets to Be Revealed September 22! September 5, 2012
- For Those of You Who’ve Been Waiting for a New Release of “Heaven’s Gate”… August 31, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Campaign August 31, 2012
- OMG! Microsoft Changes Terms of Its Services Agreement! And I Have No Idea What that Means! August 31, 2012
- A Strange Review: Cosmopolis August 31, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Expendables 2 August 25, 2012
- The Most Racist Shows on TV August 20, 2012
- “Heart of Coppola” August 16, 2012
- Arnold Horshack Is Dead. And You’re All Just Sitting There Enjoying Yourselves as if Nothing Has Happened. August 14, 2012
- How One Scene in The Godfather Foreshadowed Robert DeNiro’s Oscar-Winning Career August 14, 2012
- Top-Ten Movie Lists Give Me Vertigo August 4, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Dark Knight Stinketh July 28, 2012
- ‘Whadda Ya Wanna Do Tonight, Marty?’ July 8, 2012
- Slavoj Zizek’s Philosopher’s Gymnasium June 4, 2012
- Movie Theaters I Mourn February 25, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Artist February 4, 2012
- He Would Have Been 80 Today February 3, 2012
- Two Strange Reviews: Sherlock Holmes II & MI:4 December 21, 2011
- A Strange Review: Melancholia December 14, 2011
- Strange Quote of the Day: Stanley Hudson December 9, 2011
- Film Critic Gets Slammed by Studio for Positive Review of Its Movie December 6, 2011
- A Strange Review: Hugo December 1, 2011
- This Pretty Much Sums Up My Reaction November 21, 2011
- The AMAZING Michael J. Fox! November 15, 2011
- Prominent Social Scientist Faked Dozens of Studies. How Could Anyone Tell? November 2, 2011
- Welles Meets Wells November 2, 2011
- Pinocchio: An Exercise in Terror October 24, 2011
- A Strange Review: Johnny English Reborn October 21, 2011
- A Strange Review: Ides of March October 20, 2011
- In Honor of Columbus Day October 10, 2011
- The Theme Song to ‘Star Trek’ Had Lyrics. And They Sucked. October 4, 2011
- A Strange Review: Moneyball September 24, 2011
- A Strange Review: Contagion September 9, 2011
- And Now for an Andy Rooney–Type Moment February 24, 2009
- BBC Publishes ‘Greatest 101 Questions of All Time’ — No. 67: ‘Why?’ February 24, 2009
- Some Are Born to Greatness While the Oscars Bore Millions Greatly February 22, 2009

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