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Name: Jim Rohner
Location: New York, New York
Reject Since: December 2008
Email: jim@filmschoolrejects.com

Bio: Jim Rohner is a film critic and associate producer of Zoom In Online. He's had the pleasure of meeting great filmmakers like Guy Maddin, Darren Lynn Bousman, and Tomas Alfredson and is ashamed to admit that he has a Bachelor's degree in Communication. He loves the horror genre, his favorite film is Groundhog Day, and he condones violence only when it comes to defending the honor of his one and only true love, Tina Fey.


Posts by Jim Rohner:

30 Rock Review: Sun Tea

30 Rock Review: Sun Tea

Jack, disgusted at a rift in the Geiss family, vows to get a vasectomy so as to never have kids and convinces Tracy, who’s frustrated at his son Tracy Jr. (Bobb’e Thompson), to do the same. Liz learns the rules of New York real estate.

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30 Rock Review: The Problem Solvers

30 Rock Review: The Problem Solvers

The humble attitude of new TGS cast member Jack “Danny” Baker (Cheyenne Jackson) causes Jenna and Tracy to re-think their whip-cracking treatment of Kenneth as they team up to form a duo – aptly named “The Problem Solvers” – to help people solve problems rather than cause them.

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30 Rock Review: Audition Day

30 Rock Review: Audition Day

Liz and Pete have discovered the talent they want to hire for TGS and plan to dupe Jack into hiring him, but when Jenna discovers that the lead candidate is an actor she dislikes, she and a paranoid Tracy plan to find their own candidate.

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30 Rock Review: Stone Mountain

30 Rock Review: Stone Mountain

Jack and Liz take a trip to Kenneth’s hometown of Stone Mountain, Georgia in yet another attempt to find all-American talent while Jenna attempts to charm the writing staff so she’ll get favorable roles once a new cast member is hired and they in turn attempt to charm her for an invitation to a Halloween party.

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30 Rock Review: Into the Crevasse

30 Rock Review: Into the Crevasse

Liz begins to see the negative ripple effects from her book “Dealbreakers” – especially from an aggravated Tracy Jordan – while Jack struggles to find a way to make GE profitable to appease President Obama’s Microwave and Small Appliances Task Force headed up by his arch-enemy Devon Banks.

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OAM + 31 Days of Horror: Dead of Night

OAM + 31 Days of Horror: Dead of Night

A group of six friends gathers together one afternoon in a cottage in the English country side. That is where it begins.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – Season Four

TV Review: 30 Rock – Season Four

Welcome back, 30 Rock. How I missed you. Did you miss me? Of course you didn’t. You’re a multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy show on NBC and I’m an online film and TV critic who ate Sour Patch Kids for dinner tonight.

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Old Ass Movies: Kill For the Money with ‘Double Indemnity’

Old Ass Movies: Kill For the Money with ‘Double Indemnity’

What begins as a standard sales visit about car insurance renewal, slowly builds piece by piece into a tale of infatuation, intrigue and murder.

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Movies We Love: Heat

Movies We Love: Heat

A guy told me one time, “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.”

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Movies We Love: Groundhog Day

Movies We Love: Groundhog Day

Fall in love with Groundhog Day all over again and again and again and again and again.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – Kidney Now!

TV Review: 30 Rock – Kidney Now!

Due to the recognition she received for being on the cover of Time Out New York, Liz accompanies Jenna as a guest on a talk show where she parlays the “that’s a deal breaker, ladies” slogan into more fame.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – Mama Mia

TV Review: 30 Rock – Mama Mia

Jack’s search for his real father leads to three potential candidates, one of which is a liberal college professor named Milton Green (Alan Alda) who’s at odds with everything Jack supports.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – The Natural Order

TV Review: 30 Rock – The Natural Order

After Liz chides Tracy for acting like a child in front of everyone, he becomes obnoxiously professional on set and pushes Liz’s view that no one deserves special treatment back in her face.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – The Ones

TV Review: 30 Rock – The Ones

Elisa returns to 30 Rock with a dark secret that she doesn’t want Jack to know out of fear he won’t love her anymore and Jenna goes to desperate measures to try and re-connect with a cute EMT that actually enjoys her show.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – Jackie Jormp-Jomp

TV Review: 30 Rock – Jackie Jormp-Jomp

In order to build up hype for Jenna’s Janis Joplin biopic, “Jackie Jormp Jomp,” Jack decides to fake Jenna’s death.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – Apollo, Apollo

TV Review: 30 Rock – Apollo, Apollo

Turning 50, Jack hopes to recapture the joy he felt as a 10-year old that got him so excited he threw up. When Dennis (Dean Winters) shows back up in Liz’s life to make amends for being a sexaholic, one of his confessions strains Liz’s friendship with Jenna.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – The Bubble

TV Review: 30 Rock – The Bubble

When Liz begins to realize that Drew (Jon Hamm) is able to get away with things other people can’t, Jack explains it’s because Drew is within “The Bubble,” which allows attractive people special treatment.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – The Funcooker

TV Review: 30 Rock – The Funcooker

Liz finds herself stretched too thin when she has jury duty added to her already hectic life. With her out of the office, no one can help curve the behavior of Jenna, who is using experimental drugs to keep herself awake, and Tracy, who keeps cursing on live television.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – Goodbye, My Friend

TV Review: 30 Rock – Goodbye, My Friend

When Liz meets a pregnant teenager who’s thinking about giving up the baby once it’s born, she befriends the girl in an attempt to be first in line for adoption consideration.

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TV Review: 30 Rock – Larry King

TV Review: 30 Rock – Larry King

An adult photo that Liz took of herself comes back to haunt her when she accidentally leaves the cell phone with which she used to take it in a cab.

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