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- Email me your complaints and job offers: jthomas@jonqpublic.com. You can also follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jthomasmurphy. Or read my personal blog at: http://thesemanticverses.wordpress.com.
![If anyone else is sick of pseudo-cinastes topping their best-of lists with Citizen Kane, well there’s relief in sight. The Sight & Sound poll has listed Vertigo at the top of its […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "It’s Official: Vertigo is Better than Citizen Kane")
![I’d like to be the wet blanket and point out at this time that Cloud Atlas will be the biggest flop of the year. First of all David Mitchell’s Cloud […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/jim-broadbent-cloud-atlas-115x115.jpg "Let’s Get Skeptical About the First Cloud Atlas Trailer")
![If anyone caught The Dark Knight Rises in theatres (read our review), then you probably saw the Skyfall trailer that accompanied it. Turns out another, shorter version of that trailer appeared last […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bond-23-Skyfall-Daniel-Cr-007-115x115.jpg "Another Day, Another Skyfall Trailer")
![The Dark Knight Rises has only been out a week but I’ve already read more critical reviews and deconstructions than I have any other film in the last two years (that […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/bane-tom-hardy-the-dark-knight-rises-115x115.jpg "Reviewed: The Dark Knight Rises")
![WARNING- THERE BE SPOILERS HERE A Dance With Dragons is the fifth installment of George R.R. Martin’s installment of his epic series: A Song of Ice and Fire. In […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dance3-115x115.jpg "A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin- Reviewed")
![The official The Dark Knight Rises trailer finally hit the internet yesterday. It’s about the same as the bootleg Buzzfeed had put up a few days ago, but with better […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TheDarkKnightRises_TeaserPoster-115x115.jpg "Official The Dark Knight Rises Trailer")
![The first two episodes of LOST stand pretty firmly on their own merits. Like any television pilot, they encapsulate the world that they are introducing us to. Pilots […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/1x03_Kate-115x115.png "Getting LOST :: “Tabula Rasa”")
![[Update: Yahoo just posted a shot of Oin and Gloin in similar portrait style, check it out at the bottom] Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit continues to bleed cool, […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/The-Hobbit-First-Look-Photo-115x115.jpg "Here There Be Dwarves [Updated]")
![I’d like to be the wet blanket and point out at this time that Cloud Atlas will be the biggest flop of the year. First of all David Mitchell’s Cloud […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/jim-broadbent-cloud-atlas-36x36.jpg "Let’s Get Skeptical About the First Cloud Atlas Trailer"){kind=small}
![If anyone caught The Dark Knight Rises in theatres (read our review), then you probably saw the Skyfall trailer that accompanied it. Turns out another, shorter version of that trailer appeared last […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bond-23-Skyfall-Daniel-Cr-007-36x36.jpg "Another Day, Another Skyfall Trailer"){kind=small}
![A bit ago I got to see the 25th Anniversary version of Les Mis, and it was pretty awesome. To prep for it, my wife required that we listen to […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/les-mis-36x36.jpg "First trailer for Les Miserables!"){kind=small}
![Some new photos have recently come out of the set on the new Star Trek film, directed by J.J. Abrams. The photos show off the films new villain, Benedict Cumberbatch, […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/startreksetphotos1-36x36.jpg "Star Trek 2 set photos and video"){kind=small}
![This week brought the second and much better looking trailer for The Amazing Spiderman. I’m not going to go out and praise the trailer, because as we all know, trailers […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/spiderman-36x36.png "Better Amazing Spiderman trailer (w/ no first-person view!)"){kind=small}
![MTV got access to the set of Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter based on the book of the same name written by Seth Grahame-Smith. Grahame-Smith also wrote the screenplay […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/abe-wide-36x36.jpg "Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Behind the Scenes"){kind=small}
![EW is reporting that the CW is close to ordering a Green Arrow pilot. It appears that becoming a somewhat regular on Smallville (actor Justin Hartley is credited with 72 […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/green-arrow-max-36x36.jpg "CW Planning Green Arrow Television Series!!!"){kind=icon}
![Later this week audiences seeing Tin Tin will get to see the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. Luckily for everyone else in the world, the trailer is now […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Screen-shot-2011-12-20-at-10.21.50-PM-36x36.png "The first Hobbit trailer arrives!"){kind=small}
![The Dark Knight Rises has only been out a week but I’ve already read more critical reviews and deconstructions than I have any other film in the last two years (that […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/bane-tom-hardy-the-dark-knight-rises-36x36.jpg "Reviewed: The Dark Knight Rises"){kind=small}
![This past October 13th through 16th was the New York Comic Con. I had attended before, but only for one Saturday. This year […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/GL-Animated-Series-36x36.jpg "Reviewed: Green Lantern The Animated Series Pilot Episode!!!"){kind=small}
![Back in July I got to see an advanced screening of Batman: Year One. It’s a new animated movie in the same vein as many of DC’s recent works in […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/4557-batyearone-36x36.jpg "Batman: Year One review"){kind=small}
![Season 4 of True Blood ended with two consecutive bangs. Let’s recap the season. A while back I pointed out how True Blood tends to fill episodes with fluff and […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/best-top-desktop-tv-wallpaper-True-Blood-wallpapers2-36x36.jpg "True Blood Season 4 Wrap-up"){kind=small}
![A while back I heard that Simon Pegg was set to release a book. Not only was he writing a book, but it was an autobiography! Initially I was excited […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/SimonPeggReads-36x36.jpg "Simon Pegg’s Book “Nerd Do Well” does… well!"){kind=small}
![WARNING- THERE BE SPOILERS HERE A Dance With Dragons is the fifth installment of George R.R. Martin’s installment of his epic series: A Song of Ice and Fire. In […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dance3-36x36.jpg "A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin- Reviewed"){kind=small}
![Ever since the release of X-Men in 2000, superhero movies have been on the rise. Marvel has done their part to help the cause (X-Men, X2, Iron Man), and also […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Captain-America-Chracter-Poster-Superhero-36x36.jpg "“Captain America: The First Avenger” is Pure Entertainment!"){kind=small}
![If there is any doubt as to what Michael Bay is best at, Transformers: Dark of the Moon has solidified him as being the master of extremely big and expensive […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/transformers3posternew-36x36.jpg "Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Reviewed"){kind=small}
![This is a film about hurting – yet it’s a comedy. It’s funny and sexy. And painful. All great comedies are about desire. They have a main character that you […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/70125534-36x36.jpg "Soul Kitchen: it’s hot in here."){kind=small}
![X-Men: First Class has a title akin to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This is already a sign of bad things to come, right? Luckily there are only two things these movies […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/x-men-first-class-uk-poster-36x36.jpg "X-Men: First Class, reviewed."){kind=small}
![Back in the early 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles exploded into the homes of children all over America. The show was awesome, giant green turtles who kick ass! All merchandising […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/vitruvian-shark-close-36x36.jpg "Anatomy of a Street Shark"){kind=small}
![You might be thinking, he must mean Jurassic Park 4, right? The one that Steven Spielberg recently mentioned might be happening, but he would not be directing. But NO! I […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/the-mark-36x36.jpg "Missing the mark: Jurassic Park III"){kind=small}
![For all you followers of this site, thank you for taking the time to read what we write. In recent months the site has been fairly slow and filled with […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jqp1-36x36.jpg "The once and future Jon"){kind=small}
![It was pretty cool seeing many of The Avengers cast at New York Comic Con. It might have been cooler if Sam Jackson or Joss Whedon were there too, but […]](http://jonqpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/avengers-panel-36x36.png "The whole NYCC Avengers panel"){kind=small}