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...
by Jarrod | Apr 13, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Nefarious is a tough watch, just not in the way its writer/director team Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon (God’s Not Dead) had in mind. This low-budget prison thriller, centered almost entirely around an...
by Jarrod | Apr 12, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF KIT + THE WOLF IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Bootleg superhero comics, a longtime fixture in underground fan circles and a hot commodity in our modern digitized age, are a tonic for stale corporate cape comics. They offer a space where familiar...
by Jarrod | Apr 12, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
THIS REVIEW OF MENDING A RIFT CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Arpad Okay. Undecided if this is a joyous or ominous book. Turn off the lights and the scar left from a mended rift in reality faintly glows. In Jean Wei’s hands, it brings together a group who...
by Jarrod | Apr 12, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, off-the-radar indie releases, and a non-stop avalanche of movies, television, and other things that are bad for you is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. This week: bidding farewell to The Flash, my first Hate read, another Bloodlines...
by Jarrod | Mar 29, 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: Nicole Goux’s Rituals, available now from Silver Sprocket. by Arpad Okay. Sitting on the floor next to the bed, across from the...
by Jarrod | Mar 29, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS ADVANCE REVIEW OF STRINGER CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. The tennis circuit of 1983 was a time of giants. John McEnroe ruled the roost following his Wimbledon victory over Chris Lewis, despite his unruly behavior on and off the court. Whether he was...
