KILL THE MESSENGER

By Jarrod Jones. Michael Cuesta’s Kill The Messenger, a film about the weapons of journalism wielded by a goateed Jeremy Renner, is a tonally mixed bag of several great ideas. It’s a simmering political procedural that takes place during the plasti-sheen...

RETROGRADING: HOWARD THE DUCK

By Matt Fleming. As a child, I spent an inordinate amount of time watching movies on cable and VHS. My mother would insist I come outside to enjoy the beautiful weather. I would respond, “But Mom, Back To The Future is on HBO right now.” As an adult, I’m attempting to...

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! BATMAN #35

By Jarrod Jones. There’s no getting around it: everybody has been waiting for this. Since Zero Year (finally) came to a close, everyone who’s worth their Bat-boots has been pondering the question: what is Endgame? DC Comics wasn’t talking, writer...

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! BATGIRL #35

By Molly Jane Kremer. I like my superhero comics to be fun. (I’ve said as much in a handful of reviews already.) While there is a place for the dark and moody pathos of Brian Michael Bendis’ (superlative) Daredevil, Mark Waid’s recent, more optimistic reimagining of...

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WYTCHES #1

By Gavin Rehfeldt. Wytches #1 has been born of truly twisted magic. Batman-scribe Scott Snyder returns to the horror genre with his latest creator owned book for Image after a popular run on Vertigo’s American Vampire, and his previous Image horror entry Severed....

GONE GIRL

By Jarrod Jones. Even if you haven’t read Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl, odds are you’ve heard of it. Or perhaps you have at least a peripheral awareness of the icy thriller that merited the insufferable “oohs” and “aahs”...