by Jarrod | Jul 25, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where a good death is its own reward. THE FILM: Man of Steel THE YEAR: 2013, one year after Christopher Nolan changed the superhero landscape, for better or worse, with his Dark Knight trilogy,...
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 | Mar 29, 2018 | TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episodes One & Two — “Pilot”, “House of El” Cameron Cuffe as Seg-El, Ian McElhinney as Val-El (Photo by Gavin Bond/Syfy) I might have groaned a bit less at the concept of a “Superman show without Superman” were it not for...
by Jarrod | Feb 17, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Jarrod Jones. What’s incredible about Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is that it has become widely known as “the good one” to those who express their appreciation for the languishing DC Cinematic Universe solely in infographics and particularly...
by Jarrod | Nov 11, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Elford Alley. This is RETROGRADING, where we have to ask: Do you know the way to Shell Beach? THE FILM: Dark City THE TIME: 1998, when Alex Proyas gave us what was essentially The Matrix a year before the Wachowksis did. Also, a time when a sci-fi film could be...
