by Jarrod | Jul 22, 2024 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Matthew Amuso. This is RETROGRADING, where fair is fair. THE FILM: The Legend of Billie Jean THE YEAR: 1985. The Eighties were a golden age of teen adventure movies, the decade of E.T., The Goonies, Karate Kid, and more. While some were canonized, others...
by Jarrod | Jun 27, 2024 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Matthew Amuso. This is RETROGRADING, where we’re in between the panels. THE FILM: Super THE YEAR: 2010. Three years after Iron Man and a year before The Avengers, the superhero movie craze was shifting into second gear. Beore he became DCU co-head, James...
by Jarrod | Feb 28, 2024 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Sacha Polak’s Silver Haze is a gauntlet of hurt and no mistake. The people who live here have suffered, and sometimes they make other people suffer, a defense mechanism that deliberately leaves scars. Silver...
by Jarrod | Feb 22, 2024 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. When it comes to a low-budget slasher, I’m easy. Does it have a killer, a conga line of victims, and mayhem? Sign me up. The kills don’t need to be especially inventive, though when they are, boy, does it make...
by Jarrod | Feb 19, 2024 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Jarrod Jones. I Didn’t See You There is about movement. Transit. Getting where we need to be and going nowhere in particular. Living. People in the way, always in the way. “Head’s up.” I Didn’t See You There is about perspective: ours, everyone else’s, Reid’s. ...
