by Jarrod | Aug 18, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. It may tick off certain comic readers to point this out, but Blue Beetle is a second-stringer in the DC superhero pantheon, warming the bench alongside the likes of The Atom and Metamorpho the Element Man. Given the...
by Jarrod | Aug 11, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. It’s a movie I like in concept — a one-location survival-horror situation influenced heavily by Alien and based on one of the creepier elements of Bram Stoker’s Dracula; sign me up. The execution...
by Jarrod | Aug 10, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Darkness, a peculiar trauma tale that teases apocalypse and delivers it in the form of strained metaphor, is the debut feature from Italian director Emanuela Rossi. If her next project is made with the same level...
by Jarrod | Aug 9, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. As anyone who’s spent time at a flea market or comic convention will tell you, collectors are zealous, dealers are cruel, and old stuff smells weird. Austin-based filmmaker Ray Spivey takes an even more sardonic...
by Jarrod | Aug 8, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing is a special, rare object: a comic book movie that can play with other genres and thrive in the doing. It’s also a monster movie, a love story, a tragedy in three parts. Watching Dick...
by Jarrod | Aug 4, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Movies set in the far-flung future seem to decide humanity’s fate by the flip of a coin: lawless chaos or totalitarian rule? In Álex de la Iglesia’s 1993 debut feature, Acción mutante — Mutant Action en...
