by Jarrod | Dec 19, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Matt Fleming. RETROGRADING is my attempt to parse the films of yesteryear, just to see if they hold their ground. Prologue: “The Ghost of Bill Murray’s Past.” With the possible exceptions of bacon and Jennifer Lawrence, Bill Murray has become something of a sacred...
by Jarrod | Dec 19, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Zak Rye. Between low-brow and no-brow, this is unCultured, where we shamelessly promote and defend some of the worst films ever made. This time around, we revisit Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s uncomfortably provocative docudrama, Kids. My wife had never seen...
by Jarrod | Dec 18, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer. Every once in a while, between mind-bending temporal paradoxes, and witty asides within comics about comics, Grant Morrison takes the time to write from his heart a little more than his mind. He never completely dismisses that brainier side (and...
by Jarrod | Dec 17, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. It requires very little patience to wait for the carnage to ensue in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Picking up just seconds after last year’s Desolation of Smaug, Jackson’s third – and final –...
by Jarrod | Dec 15, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Our Week In Review serves to fill in the gaps our frequently verbose comic book coverage leaves behind. Each week, we take a brief look into the books that demand attention. New Suicide Squad #5 DC Comics/$2.99 Written by Sean...
by Jarrod | Dec 12, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. The director’s responsibility to a film, among others, is to blend a world of fiction within a semi-logical world of reality. Bennett Miller is a director who is unwilling to commit completely to one style of filmmaking, but rather finds his comfort...
by Jarrod | Dec 11, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. It’s become apparent to me that the sleek sophistication of Bruce Timm’s artwork and the wily character strength of Paul Dini’s written word are now artifacts of a by-gone era, where comic books were still widely considered to be...
