by Jarrod | Nov 21, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Playing catch-up with last year’s Catching Fire seems to be the primary focus for much of the first half of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1. And while that does provide some narrative relief for those of us who don’t agonize over...
by Jarrod | Nov 20, 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 take a look back at Taylor Hackford’s debauched horror-law saga, Devil’s Advocate. We...
by Jarrod | Nov 20, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. The Theory of Everything, a new film by director James Marsh, spends little time listing Professor Stephen Hawking’s monumental contributions to the scientific community. His precedential theories pertaining to the creation, lifespan, and...
by Jarrod | Nov 7, 2014 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Jarrod Jones. It may be rather redundant to say so, but here goes: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is a film of many ideas. The director of such films as The Prestige, Memento, and (more crucially) Inception, can’t – or maybe won’t –...
by Jarrod | Oct 21, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. The clouds never part in David Ayer’s Fury, keeping Brad Pitt and his mud-encrusted howling commandos (John Bernthal, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Peña and Logan Lerman) draped in a perpetual gray gloom. Ensconced in the thick of Germany just one month...
