by Jarrod | Apr 13, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Nefarious is a tough watch, just not in the way its writer/director team Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon (God’s Not Dead) had in mind. This low-budget prison thriller, centered almost entirely around an...
by Jarrod | Mar 6, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW OF UNWELCOME CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Jon Wright’s Unwelcome is (forgive me) a welcome throwback to the hallowed tradition of vicious onscreen ankle-biters who cut up in more ways than one. Know going in that this slice of home...
by Jarrod | Feb 17, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
THIS REVIEW OF ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Maybe it’s unfair to put so much on the tiny shoulders of Ant-Man. Wasn’t there a time when these Paul Rudd movies were modest, between-Avengers diversions that made...
by Jarrod | 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 Jarrod | 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 Jarrod | 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...
