HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WEEK IN REVIEW

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WEEK IN REVIEW

By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Making sure our comic book reviews are the best they can be is something we take pretty damned seriously here at DoomRocket. Some may say too seriously, seeing as though we average only three full comic reviews a week. We all...
UNCULTURED: THE CROW

UNCULTURED: THE CROW

By Zak Rye. Between low-brow and no-brow, this is unCultured, where we attempt to shed a new light on some of our favorite misunderstood and often overlooked films. In this week’s installment, we discuss the 1994 film adaptation of James O’Barr’s The Crow. In the late...
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 1

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 1

By Jarrod Jones. Playing catch-up with last year’s Catching Fire seems to be the primary focus for much of the first half of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1. And while that does provide some narrative relief for those of us who don’t agonize over...
RETROGRADING: THE ‘BURBS

RETROGRADING: THE ‘BURBS

By Matt Fleming. RETROGRADING is my attempt to parse the films of yesteryear, just to see if they hold their ground. Prologue: “The Horror of Modern Living.” Early 20th Century America saw a boom in industrial production, economic growth, and population. A once rural...
HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WONDER WOMAN #36

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WONDER WOMAN #36

By Molly Jane Kremer. As someone who has read Wonder Woman for as long as I have (since I began reading comics, in fact), I can very much understand that certain nerdy compulsion to follow a character’s comic book despite whatever creative team may be at the helm. For...
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

By Kyle G. King. The Theory of Everything, a new film by director James Marsh, spends little time listing Professor Stephen Hawking’s monumental contributions to the scientific community. His precedential theories pertaining to the creation, lifespan, and...