by Jarrod | Apr 28, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Freaks Vs. The Reich is what it sounds like, a sideshow spectacle that pits a quartet of circus oddballs against the jackbooted thugs of Hitler’s Third Reich. The twist — as though a premise like that would...
by Jarrod | Apr 25, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Arpad Okay. This is RETROGRADING, where we’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. THE FILM: Blade Runner THE YEAR: 1982. Ridley Scott leverages the power of Alien’s success to attempt another sophisticated genre film. Scott’s focus on making a...
by Jarrod | Apr 21, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Evil Dead is still adapting to the times. Does it need to? The manic independent energy of Sam Raimi’s horror trilogy has given way to more grimly realized studio joints that include obligatory...
by Jarrod | Apr 21, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. How to Blow Up a Pipeline is exactly what it sounds like. What draws a group of eight random, regular people together to commit a crime? Their experience. The institutions that shape their lives. Circumstance. This...
by Jarrod | Apr 19, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. You know, it’s weird: the first thirty-odd minutes of Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid reminded me of the climax to The Matrix Revolutions. That’s the bit where Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss...
by Jarrod | Apr 14, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW OF RENFIELD IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Renfield is the latest in an increasingly serpentine queue of comedy-horror movies that think being hilarious is more fun than being scary and winds up being neither. It confuses mayhem with frights and...
