Author: Bert Ehrmann

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Jack Ryan movie posters, best to worst

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Since the poster for the new Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit movie due out later this year was released this week, I thought it might be interesting to rate all the Jack Ryan movie posters over the years from best to worst.

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The Hunt for Red October

This poster is pure simplicity with a stark color scheme that draws the eye to the central figure of the conning tower of the sub.
 

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Patriot Games

Though this poster screams “1990s design” with its colors, typography and photographic noise, it’s still quite effective.

 

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The Sum of All Fears

This poster is interesting, but it’s got a bit too much going on here, from explosions to east vs west, helicopters, some dude running…

 

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Simply put, this poster is a mess. We’ve got the main character looking down at his gun, or maybe arm. A weird blur on the sides of the image that doesn’t make visual sense either since that glow ties with the glow of the background buildings and makes it look like Jack Ryan has weird white mushrooms growing out of his back.

 

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Clear and Present Danger

“How can we make the Jack Ryan character even more patriotic? I know, let’s wrap him in a flag!”

George A. Romero adds to ‘Dead’ empire in comic series

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Start spreading the news: George A. Romero’s undead are taking a bite out of the Big Apple.

After invading a rural Pennsylvania farm, the Monroeville Mall and the Florida Everglades, the iconic horror director is taking his zombies to his hometown of New York City for the first time with the Marvel Comics 15-issue miniseries Empire of the Dead, debuting in January.

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TCM Friday Night Spooklight

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2069570Each Friday night in October TCM will be airing two horror films from the 1930s to the 70s . Films include:

  • Carnival of Souls
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  • The Bride of Frankenstein
  • Horror of Dracula
  • Isle of the Dead
  • Dead of Night
  • The Haunting (1963)
  • Burn, Witch, Burn
  • The Tomb of Ligeia
  • The Seventh Victim
  • Curse of the Demon
  • A Bucket of Blood
  • Dementia 13
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Sisters (1973)

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The terrifying nuclear autumn of 1983

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That was the season my slice of generation, on the younger side of X, learned about things worse than death. Things like flash burns and thermal radiation and stillborn mutants. It was the season we acquired some of the habits of the wartime mind. We wondered if lights in the night sky were planes or missiles, and whether the school fallout shelter stood a chance. The autumn of ’83 was also a semester of children’s thermonuclear ethics. If it happens in the afternoon, do we run toward home, or away from the city and the blast? If it happens at night, do we let our parents huddle over us in the basement, or do we stand on the rooftop, chests forward, praying the first shock wave dematerializes our family without pain?

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