by Jarrod | Jul 8, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where we actually do wanna fight, thank you very much. THE FILM: Only God Forgives THE YEAR: 2013, two years after Nicolas Winding Refn knocked the art house on its ass with Drive and a year before Ryan Gosling tried to do the...
by Jarrod | Jun 28, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, ANTI-MONITOR PODCAST
By Matt Fleming and Jarrod Jones. This is the ANTI-MONITOR podcast, where we’re the Juggernau–okay, we’ll shut right the hell up. This week, Jarrod and Bird dust off an episode recorded six weeks ago, timed for the release of ‘X-Men:...
by Jarrod | Jun 24, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Kyle G. King. On Independence Day 1996, the world finally learned it was not alone in the universe. You know. Fictionally. Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day amassed an audience with its powerful gravitational pull while broadening the scope of what a summer...
by Jarrod | Jun 3, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. A large thorn in the abdomen of comic book movie franchises has been keeping the growing number of hardline fanboys placated and happy (and yes, I’m gendering that group intentionally). These 20-30 somethings have a tendency to decry any rebranding or...
by Jarrod | May 27, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Jarrod Jones. Love them, like them, or scarcely tolerate them, 20th Century Fox just won’t stop making these ding-dang X-Men movies. If you’ve been dying to see what Marvel Studios would do with our beloved (not-so) Merry Mutants, it’s gotta sting...
by Jarrod | May 20, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Kyle G. King. “To solve the crime of the century, they’ll have to play nice.” But in Shane Black’s newest action-comedy The Nice Guys, the word ‘nice’ is quickly established as a somewhat subjective expression. Two A-list hunks (Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling) team...
