by Jarrod | Nov 18, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Elford Alley. This is RETROGRADING, where we love the smell of napalm in the morning. THE FILM: Apocalypse Now THE TIME: Fittingly, 1979. Apocalypse Now in a lot of ways represented the end of the dark, complicated films that were so prevalent in the ’70s,...
by Jarrod | Nov 11, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Jarrod Jones. If you ever want to keep yourself up for the rest of the month, consider the Fermi paradox, a humdinger of a quagmire summed up thusly: Even though the probability that another planet just like Earth exists in the universe is incredibly high —...
by Jarrod | Nov 11, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Elford Alley. This is RETROGRADING, where we have to ask: Do you know the way to Shell Beach? THE FILM: Dark City THE TIME: 1998, when Alex Proyas gave us what was essentially The Matrix a year before the Wachowksis did. Also, a time when a sci-fi film could be...
by Jarrod | Nov 9, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Brad Sun. To paraphrase Sin City’s Dwight McCarthy, Mel Gibson isn’t crazy; he just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. Luckily, the themes he’s most interested in exploring on film (love, honor, men being graphically tortured...
by Jarrod | Nov 4, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
WATCH OUT FOR MINOR SPOILERS, TRUE BELIEVERS By Jarrod Jones. Marvel has made exciting movies and it has made terrific movies (it has even made bad movies), but it’s never really made a weird movie. I mean, the entire concept of the Marvel Universe is pretty...
by Jarrod | Nov 3, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, ANTI-MONITOR PODCAST, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Matt Fleming and Jarrod Jones. This is the ANTI-MONITOR podcast, where we’ll always remember the Fifth of November. This week, Jarrod & Birdy get political with Warner Bros’ adaptation of Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s ‘V for...
