by | Aug 9, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS ANTI-MONITOR REVIEW OF PREY CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Few action franchises have a tidier formula than Predator: knock out two hours of the hunted pursuing the hunter, and fill out the rest of the running time with an astonishing body count. So,...
by | Jul 28, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW OF NEPTUNE FROST IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. Afrofuturism is the dream taken from a different page than the one we’re used to reading. A dream of the present. Here! Now! The dystopian horrors of tomorrow already reached us long ago. Unanimous Goldmine,...
by | Jul 28, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Matt Fleming. This is RETROGRADING, where the dream is over and the insect is awake. THE FILM: The Fly THE YEAR: 1986. At the tail end of the American horror movie movement of the 1970s and early ‘80s, the genre was dominated by comedic thrill rides like...
by | May 11, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR, CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week: MJ & Jones go crazy over how much they enjoyed Sam Raimi’s...
by | Apr 29, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Arpad Okay. This is RETROGRADING, where we know better than to mess with monks when martial arts are involved. THE FILM: A Touch of Zen THE YEAR: 1971. King Hu had left Shaw Brothers and Hong Kong for the creative freedom of his own Taiwanese production company,...
by | Apr 27, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS ANTI-MONITOR REVIEW OF ‘THE NORTHMAN’ CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. And now for something completely insane: a 137-minute long Viking revenge saga from auteur filmmaker Robert Eggers, he of The Witch and The Lighthouse, a surreal gods-walk-among-us...
