by Jarrod | Nov 21, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Playing catch-up with last year’s Catching Fire seems to be the primary focus for much of the first half of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1. And while that does provide some narrative relief for those of us who don’t agonize over...
by Jarrod | Nov 20, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Matt Fleming. RETROGRADING is my attempt to parse the films of yesteryear, just to see if they hold their ground. Prologue: “The Horror of Modern Living.” Early 20th Century America saw a boom in industrial production, economic growth, and population. A once rural...
by Jarrod | Nov 20, 2014 | ANTI-MONITOR
This is the eighth in the Anti-Monitor series, where it’s believed that some films are best reviewed with the utmost incredulity. This week, Matt Fleming and myself take a look back at Taylor Hackford’s debauched horror-law saga, Devil’s Advocate. We...
by Jarrod | Nov 20, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer. As someone who has read Wonder Woman for as long as I have (since I began reading comics, in fact), I can very much understand that certain nerdy compulsion to follow a character’s comic book despite whatever creative team may be at the helm. For...
by Jarrod | Nov 20, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. The Theory of Everything, a new film by director James Marsh, spends little time listing Professor Stephen Hawking’s monumental contributions to the scientific community. His precedential theories pertaining to the creation, lifespan, and...
