by Jarrod | Jan 8, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Matt Fleming. Cultural appropriation and Japanese horror have been cozy bedfellows for years, with films like Ringu and Ju On: The Grudge inspiring uninspired (or altogether lousy) American remakes. Though jump scares and creepy ghost-girls are firmly entrenched...
by Jarrod | Jan 7, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Scott Southard. This year I had that gift unwrapping experience. You know, the one infused with nostalgia, harkening back to the childlike giddiness many American suburbanite youths felt on Christmas mornings past (search “Nintendo 64 Christmas” on YouTube if...
by Jarrod | Jan 7, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Arpad Okay. Battleworld is no more and the “feminist paradise” of Arcadia, where Singularity called home, is gone. Can Singularity, the girl who literally embodies an entire a universe, recreate the team she once knew now that she lives in our world instead of her...
by Jarrod | Jan 6, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. For nearly fifty issues, we’ve thrilled to the exploits of Geoff Johns’ Justice League, watching the New 52’s flagship title chart the course for nearly every calamity laid at the DC Universe’s doorstep. Check the list: Forever...
by Jarrod | Jan 5, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episode Nine – “Blood Bonds” By Molly Jane Kremer. Does that episode title get Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” stuck in your head? Yeah, me too. Which isn’t to say this episode of Supergirl was ‘bad’, per se… but it has problems, and I don’t think...
by Jarrod | Jan 4, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, ANTI-MONITOR PODCAST
By Matt Fleming and Jarrod Jones. This is the ANTI-MONITOR podcast, where we believe certain films are better when people actually smile and stuff. This week, the Boys relate their experiences in revisiting Bryan Singer’s 2006 Metropolis Marvel, ‘Superman...
by Jarrod | Jan 4, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Matt Fleming. Now that we can look back on 2015, especially after watching Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, it would seem that the digital revolution in cinema has become nothing more than a mere afterthought. Sure, Jurassic World resurrected old (and...
