by Jarrod | Dec 2, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, ANTI-MONITOR PODCAST
By Matt Fleming and Jarrod Jones. This is the ANTI-MONITOR podcast, where we’re gonna win for you the biggest, fuzziest, pinkest animal doll on that rack. And then we gotta go. This week, the boys recount their experience with Sam Raimi’s...
by Jarrod | Dec 2, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Kyle G. King. This is RETROGRADING, and now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho. THE FILM: Die Hard THE TIME: 1988, when bam bam shoot ‘em ups had iron faced action heros who always had two guns, one objective, and zero social skills. RECOLLECTIONS: Arnold...
by Jarrod | Nov 18, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Kyle G. King. Fifteen years ago, the world got its cinematic introduction to the boy who lived. Though its charms were always aimed at a child’s sense of wonder, as the years (and installments) went by, the themes of the Harry Potter series matured alongside...
by Jarrod | Nov 18, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Elford Alley. This is RETROGRADING, where we love the smell of napalm in the morning. THE FILM: Apocalypse Now THE TIME: Fittingly, 1979. Apocalypse Now in a lot of ways represented the end of the dark, complicated films that were so prevalent in the ’70s,...
by Jarrod | Nov 11, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Jarrod Jones. If you ever want to keep yourself up for the rest of the month, consider the Fermi paradox, a humdinger of a quagmire summed up thusly: Even though the probability that another planet just like Earth exists in the universe is incredibly high —...