Bendis, Bendis, Bendis — CASUAL WEDNESDAYS WITH DOOMROCKET
By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is Casual Wednesdays With DoomRocket, where each week we discuss our feelings concerning the comics that mean the most to us, and the industry news that affects us all. This…
Ludicrous, ambitious ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ wants to smash, and we want to let it
By Jarrod Jones. Among being many, many other things, Thor: Ragnarok is a heart-shaped valentine to Jack Kirby, cut from red and green construction paper, glued together with care, and gleaming with liberal amounts of glitter. Undulating orbs form and dissipate around…
Aronofsky’s ambition makes ‘Noah’ one of the best (and weirdest) films of the 2010s
By Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where this is the beginning. The beginning of everything. THE FILM: Noah THE TIME: 2014. Darren Aronofsky had just cashed in all his awards-season cache to make the ponderous and visually daring biblical epic that had…
‘Thor Ragnarok’ Teaser, or: How I Spent My Summer Vacation — IN NIFLHEIM
By Jarrod Jones. You’d never think a Marvel Studios movie would kick off with a monologue that went, “Now I know what you’re thinking!” But then you actually think about Marvel Studios movies for three consecutive seconds, and then you decide, yeah, they…
‘WESTWORLD’: The Last Samurai — TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episode Ten — “The Bicameral Mind” By Brandy Dykhuizen. We now know, definitively, that the maze was meant for hosts, not guests. Is it possible to make a television series that’s not meant for viewers? Say what you will…
‘WESTWORLD’: Smacking The Keys, Looking For That Elusive Note — TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episode Nine — “The Well Tempered Clavier” By Brandy Dykhuizen. No matter how many revelations they cram into a single episode, Westworld’s viewers can’t be blamed for feeling like they’re shooting cap guns at a carnival tent, or riding…
‘WESTWORLD’: Maeve Just Got The Cheat Codes — TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episode Eight — “Trace Decay” By Brandy Dykhuizen. The hosts are waking up, little by little, piece by piece. The more the park tries to erase their pain, the more Bernard, Maeve, and Dolores cling to it, because Westworld…
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‘WESTWORLD’: Dr. Ford Bids [SPOILER] A Cruel And Brutal Farewell — TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episode Seven — “Trompe L’Oeil” By Brandy Dykhuizen. The assumption that Bernard Lowe was a host all along went from “fan theory” to “pretty likely scenario” sometime within the past few weeks, so it wasn’t so shocking to discover that poor Bernard…
