by Jarrod | Dec 31, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Jarrod Jones. 2023 was a big year for me as a writer. I quit my day job and threw myself into freelance work, pushing myself to improve as a critic under anticipated but no less stressful financial and personal strain. I’ve written dozens of reviews this year...
by Jarrod | Jul 21, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Christopher Nolan isn’t the type to play fast and loose with anything he directs; even his more fantastic outings are executed with an eye for excruciating plot detail. It doesn’t matter if he’s showing...
by Jarrod | Mar 2, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Jarrod Jones. “When the chips are down, these ‘civilized people’? They’ll eat each other.” That ominous assurance from the Joker (Heath Ledger) becomes something of a prognostication for Gotham City in The Dark Knight Rises,...
by Jarrod | Jul 26, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Matthew C. Brown. 1. The Mole. One Week 2. The Sea. One Day 3. The Air. One Hour. These three temporal locations are the focal points of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. The measure of time after each refers to the duration of the events we see in each location. In...
by Jarrod | Aug 5, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, ANTI-MONITOR PODCAST, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Matt Fleming and Jarrod Jones. This is the ANTI-MONITOR podcast, where everyone has a mother named Martha. This week, in the depraved celebration of ‘Suicide Squad’, Jarrod and Matt struggle to comprehend Zack Snyder’s ‘Batman v. Superman:...
