by Jarrod | Aug 19, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, ANTI-MONITOR PODCAST
By Matt Fleming and Jarrod Jones. This is the ANTI-MONITOR podcast, where the Dragon dances through the hoop of Jupiter. This week, Jarrod & Birdy attempt to wash out the bad taste of the summer movie season with a movie that revels in bad taste: Lloyd...
by Jarrod | Aug 19, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Kyle King. Propaganda that softens the brutality of war for the public palette is embedded deep within the DNA of cinema. But in Todd Phillip’s latest film War Dogs, the propaganda at play isn’t a 1940s rallying cry for nationalism, but rather an early 2000s...
by Jarrod | Aug 5, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. “What if Superman had decided to fly down, rip off the roof of the White House, and grab the president right out of the Oval Office? Who would’ve stopped him?” That question, pointedly asked by Stranger Things’ Dave Harbour,...
by Jarrod | Jul 29, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. It was a one-shot. Prestige format, hallucinatory narrative, adult-oriented material. A far cry from the Comics Code-approved superhero dustups from the era. It never should have had a place in the wider Batman mythos, and yet, somehow, its legacy...
by Jarrod | Jul 22, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Kyle G. King. The Star Trek canon spans an immense history of episodic television that has famously explored new life and new civilizations. And as J.J. Abrams passes the directorial torch of new age Trekking onto Justin Lin, the Fast & Furious journeyman steps...