by | Jan 5, 2018 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Jarrod Jones. For those of you who don’t remember, DoomRocket began as a film review site. It’s since shifted its focus to the comics medium, but that shouldn’t suggest that its heart still doesn’t belong to the silver screen. Here are the...
by | Nov 17, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. While the current box office climate absolutely demands that it exist, Justice League doesn’t really have to. It’s an underdeveloped and simultaneously overproduced botch-job, a response to Marvel Studios’ many successes more than...
by | Nov 3, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Among being many, many other things, Thor: Ragnarok is a heart-shaped valentine to Jack Kirby, cut from red and green construction paper, glued together with care, and gleaming with liberal amounts of glitter. Undulating orbs form and dissipate around...
by | Sep 15, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where this is the beginning. The beginning of everything. THE FILM: Noah THE TIME: 2014. Darren Aronofsky had just cashed in all his awards-season cache to make the ponderous and visually daring biblical epic that had been...
by | Sep 8, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where we could eat a peach — you know what? No. THE FILM: Face/Off THE TIME: 1997. Ah, the 90s. A neon-splattered era of plenty. For the summer blockbuster, however, the decade’s excesses had devolved the genre into a...
by | Aug 23, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR, NEWSWIRE
By Brandy Dykhuizen and Jarrod Jones. If a character has ever deserved a do-over in recent years, it’s the Joker. With Jared Leto’s bejeweled grill leaving an acrid taste in many a fan’s mouth, a palate cleanser is ever in order. Was this what we had in mind? A solo...
