by Jarrod | Aug 10, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Darkness, a peculiar trauma tale that teases apocalypse and delivers it in the form of strained metaphor, is the debut feature from Italian director Emanuela Rossi. If her next project is made with the same level...
by Jarrod | Aug 9, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. As anyone who’s spent time at a flea market or comic convention will tell you, collectors are zealous, dealers are cruel, and old stuff smells weird. Austin-based filmmaker Ray Spivey takes an even more sardonic...
by Jarrod | Aug 8, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing is a special, rare object: a comic book movie that can play with other genres and thrive in the doing. It’s also a monster movie, a love story, a tragedy in three parts. Watching Dick...
by Jarrod | Aug 4, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Movies set in the far-flung future seem to decide humanity’s fate by the flip of a coin: lawless chaos or totalitarian rule? In Álex de la Iglesia’s 1993 debut feature, Acción mutante — Mutant Action en...
by Jarrod | Jul 28, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Arpad Okay. The first thing you’ve got to know about Junk Head is that Takahide Hori is a madman. The film’s writer and director is also its cinematographer and producer, and a hundred other roles. The movie is stop...
