by Jarrod | Mar 17, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
This review contains SPOILERS. By Molly Jane Kremer. I first saw Disney’s now-classic Beauty and the Beast when I was eight years old in the winter of 1991. It was thrilling, smart, sad, funny, and breathtakingly lovely — I was enamored immediately. Belle, the...
by Jarrod | Mar 10, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Matthew C. Brown. Since its inception, the King Kong film franchise has reflected America’s fraught relationship with imperialism, white fright, xenophobia, and black slavery. When the original King Kong film was released in 1933, there were black people being...
by Jarrod | Mar 10, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Elford Alley. This is RETROGRADING, where we can never just stop. THE FILM: The Proposition THE TIME: 2005 featured a number of unique takes on the Western, such as Serenity, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Brokeback Mountain. But it was John...
by Jarrod | Mar 6, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR, NEWSWIRE
By Jarrod Jones. It is with a heavy heart that I report Robert Osborne, film historian, gentleman, and host of Turner Classic Movies for 23 years, has died at the age of 84. Osborne studied Journalism at the University of Washington, and went on to briefly follow his...
by Jarrod | Mar 3, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Wolverine is a curious little critter, make no mistake. He’s short, scuzzy, hits on his teammate’s girlfriend, smokes too much, drinks too much, and, when his blood gets up, has a tendency to stab people to death with these gross blades...
by Jarrod | Feb 27, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Matt Fleming. There are several instances during Get Out that visually reference Kendrick Lamar’s video for the song “Swimming Pools,” moments when a black man is suspended in encompassing emptiness, fully devoid of control. Whereas the song is a treatise on...
