by Jarrod | Aug 23, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. I watch ghost stories because, as a skeptic, I secretly want to believe. Well, not really. But, like most people, I enjoy the sensation of being successfully duped. The better-made supernatural horror movies will...
by Jarrod | Aug 22, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. It could all be metaphor, or none of it. He left the nunnery — exiled, really. Fell madly in love with the first brigand with whom he crossed swords. Life is hard on the margins; everything you’ve got, you’ve got to...
by Jarrod | Aug 21, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill. THE FILM: Blade THE YEAR: 1998, two years before X-Men kickstarted the superhero movie renaissance and one year after the Batman franchise had just imploded itself....
by Jarrod | Aug 21, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. In an Oregon courthouse on April 21, 2015, Susan Monica was convicted of murdering two men. Both victims had been hands on Monica’s farm, and it was there where they died; to dispose of the evidence, she...
by Jarrod | Aug 18, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. It may tick off certain comic readers to point this out, but Blue Beetle is a second-stringer in the DC superhero pantheon, warming the bench alongside the likes of The Atom and Metamorpho the Element Man. Given the...
