by Jarrod | Mar 31, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Brad Sun. Let’s just get this out of the way: Scarlett Johansson doesn’t belong in this movie. Even putting aside the legitimate concerns about whitewashing and cultural appropriation (more on that later), her performance as “The Major” is a...
by Jarrod | Mar 24, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR, ANTI-MONITOR PODCAST
By Matt Fleming and Jarrod Jones. This is the ANTI-MONITOR podcast, where you obviously don’t know who you’re dealing with, Mr. Raisin Head. This week, Jarrod & Birdy assess an odious full-length adventure featuring television’s Power Rangers,...
by Jarrod | Mar 17, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
This review contains SPOILERS. By Molly Jane Kremer. I first saw Disney’s now-classic Beauty and the Beast when I was eight years old in the winter of 1991. It was thrilling, smart, sad, funny, and breathtakingly lovely — I was enamored immediately. Belle, the...
by Jarrod | Mar 10, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Matthew C. Brown. Since its inception, the King Kong film franchise has reflected America’s fraught relationship with imperialism, white fright, xenophobia, and black slavery. When the original King Kong film was released in 1933, there were black people being...
by Jarrod | Mar 10, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Elford Alley. This is RETROGRADING, where we can never just stop. THE FILM: The Proposition THE TIME: 2005 featured a number of unique takes on the Western, such as Serenity, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Brokeback Mountain. But it was John...
