by Jarrod | Apr 27, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Iggy Craig’s Sad Girl Space Lizard, available now from Silver Sprocket. by Arpad Okay. The collected Sad Girl Space...
by Jarrod | Apr 26, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Just in case you don’t get the hourly notifications, being online can be a spooky thing. The idea of people being radicalized on the same platform where you can watch interminable video game streams is scary...
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 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF WE ARE ON OUR OWN IS SPOILER-FREE. by Kate Kowalski. All we really are at the end of the day is our collection of experiences. Why we like certain colors and smells, why we brush our teeth in that certain way, how we tie our shoes, style our hair, eat,...
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...
