by Jarrod | Nov 10, 2014 | TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episode Eight – “The Mask” By Matt Fleming. “Alfred, can you teach me how to fight?” Young Bruce Wayne ends the eighth episode of Gotham with this request to his caretaker, who obliges, “Yes, I can.” Foreshadowing the continued genesis...
by Jarrod | Nov 10, 2014 | LOAD FILE
By Ian Boone. The Call of Duty franchise has worn down over the years, for various reasons. While the state of the gaming scene upon its arrival featured pocketed battlefields that threw you into an arena of competitive violence, Call of Duty stuck its hooks into...
by Jarrod | Nov 7, 2014 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Jarrod Jones. It may be rather redundant to say so, but here goes: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is a film of many ideas. The director of such films as The Prestige, Memento, and (more crucially) Inception, can’t – or maybe won’t –...
by Jarrod | Nov 7, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. If you’ve ever pined for a life of fame, you’ve undoubtedly imagined that – once you’d made it – there is satisfaction to be found in drowning your naysayers in your success. That emotion of unfiltered bumptiousness...
by Jarrod | Nov 7, 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. Short Circuit (1986). When I began this series, I evoked Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, themes of which were adapted in a number of ‘80s films. From...
by Jarrod | Nov 6, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer. DC Comics has been sending forth quite the deluge of new titles our way, and orchestrating major re-hauls of a few others also worthy of our attention. Gotham Academy #2 is, as you can guess, one of the former, and as a second issue of...
by Jarrod | Nov 6, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Making the Bat-books fun would seem to be a thankless task. Strip the bone-crushing gravity and bleak world-view from Bruce Wayne’s world, and all we’d have left is a billionaire crime-smasher with amazing gadgets and really cool,...
