‘Justice League’ & ‘Doomsday Clock’ — 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…
Best intentions aside, ‘Justice League’ is an outright calamity
By Jarrod Jones. While the current box office climate absolutely demands that it exist, Justice League doesn’t really have to. It’s an underdeveloped and simultaneously overproduced botch-job, a response to Marvel Studios’ many successes more than anything else. Most of all,…
‘Wonder Woman’ a thunderous (and much-needed) jolt to DC’s system
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. By Molly Jane Kremer. In the superhero movie race Warner Bros has chased after rival Marvel Studios’ alacrity, box office intake, and general reception for years. With Wonder Woman, the first female-led solo superhero film of the…
‘The Dark Knight Rises’ a monumental(ly flawed) finale for Nolan’s Batman saga
By Jarrod Jones. “When the chips are down, these ‘civilized people’? They’ll eat each other.” That ominous assurance from the viciously scarred Joker (Heath Ledger) becomes something of a prognostication for Gotham City in The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s final…
‘SUICIDE SQUAD’: Behold The Future Of DC Films, And Despair — ANTI-MONITOR
By Jarrod Jones. “What if Superman had decided to fly down, rip off the roof of the White House, and grab the president right out of the Oval Office? Who would’ve stopped him?” That question, pointedly asked by Stranger Things‘ Dave Harbour, sums up the…
Zack Snyder Threatens To Make More ‘MAN OF STEEL’ Movies, Even Though… You Know
By Jarrod Jones. The cajones on this guy. This fuckin’ — *reaches for stress ball; starts squishin’ * Major spoilers for Batman v. Superman: Can We Just Not? ahead. Zack Snyder, the director who saw no problem with depicting a psychopathic Bruce Wayne slicing up…
‘Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice’ Is Already The Worst Movie Of The Year
By Jarrod Jones. There’s a moment in Zack Snyder’s monstrous Dawn of Justice where Batman, played by a sinewy Ben Affleck, rips a sink out of a wall and beats Henry Cavill’s Superman over the head with it. The only reason I…
