by Jarrod | Jan 9, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. If you find it difficult to consider Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice as a vital piece of cinema, you’d do well to consider this: as a vibrant, semi-cohesive throwback to the days of true, lurid film noir, where time and peace seemed...
by Jarrod | Dec 19, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Matt Fleming. RETROGRADING is my attempt to parse the films of yesteryear, just to see if they hold their ground. Prologue: “The Ghost of Bill Murray’s Past.” With the possible exceptions of bacon and Jennifer Lawrence, Bill Murray has become something of a sacred...
by Jarrod | Nov 14, 2014 | ANTI-MONITOR
This is the eighth in the Anti-Monitor series, where it’s believed that some films are best reviewed with the utmost incredulity. This week, Matt Fleming and myself banter back and forth over Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels’ return to the Farrelly Brothers…...
by Jarrod | Nov 7, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. If you’ve ever pined for a life of fame, you’ve undoubtedly imagined that – once you’d made it – there is satisfaction to be found in drowning your naysayers in your success. That emotion of unfiltered bumptiousness...
by Jarrod | Nov 7, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Matt Fleming. RETROGRADING is my attempt to parse the films of yesteryear, just to see if they hold their ground. Short Circuit (1986). When I began this series, I evoked Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, themes of which were adapted in a number of ‘80s films. From...
