by Jarrod | Jun 15, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. It’s your standard monster movie premise: a family member dies and leaves behind some creaky old house where their attractive offspring discover terrors beyond reckoning. The Tank, a conventional bit of beastly,...
by Jarrod | Jun 13, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. It’s both interesting and disheartening that superhero movies have morphed into garish cameo cavalcades that pull visuals — and sometimes even actors — from decades-old superhero movies to sell...
by Jarrod | Jun 12, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
Braving the gauntlet of tentpole events, off-the-radar releases, and a non-stop avalanche of movies, tv, comics, and other things that are bad for you is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. This week: saying goodbye to Ian McGinty, and other less important things. by Jarrod...
by Jarrod | Jun 12, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. Skip and Loafer is Mitsumi. She’s from a remote town, ambitious, well-meaning, kind of square but so earnest you feel a little bad for thinking that way. She’s barely a teenager and already picturing her...
by Jarrod | Jun 8, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. As a writer, Arthur Schnitzler was, you might agree, ahead of the curve. In 1897, he finished La Ronde — a stageplay intersecting the lives of ten people through romance and sex — and it was so scandalous that the play didn’t see a...
by Jarrod | Jun 2, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Stan Lee famously said anyone could be Spider-Man; Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse takes that bet. Over its pixie-stix-fueled 140 minutes, this ferociously made sequel to...
by Jarrod | Jun 1, 2023 | LOAD FILE, NEWSWIRE
by Aaron Amendola. It’s not so difficult to imagine a voice performer preparing for an upcoming recording session. There are vocal warm-ups and plenty of throat-coat tea to go around; then, the actor enters a booth to deliver a performance that will eventually...