INSIDE OUT

INSIDE OUT

By Kyle G. King. After exploring the emotional landscapes of toys, bugs, monsters, fish, superheroes, cars, robots, old men, young children, talking dogs, and toys a few more times, Pixar’s options had begun to dwindle. But with Pete Docter (trusted director of Toy...
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL

ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL

By Tom Platt. Grief, sickness, death. These words trigger inherent responses, fleshed out by a series of individually unique experiences and stories that will leave anyone lost in their personal thoughts. It is rare, in a film, for these elements to transcend...
DOPE

DOPE

By Scott Southard. The dangers and inevitabilities of life in South Central Los Angeles were thoroughly diagrammed and expanded upon in the bleak Sisyphusian tragedies of Menace II Society and Boyz N The Hood. Then came Friday (and its barrage of increasingly...
CLAMSHELLS: SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT

CLAMSHELLS: SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT

By Tavi Veraldi. Wherever there’s a pile of dusty VHS, that’s where you’ll find Tavi Veraldi. Clamshells is a comic strip review series, exclusively from DoomRocket, that attempts to recreate the feelings that came with shoving a tape through a crappy VCR, only...
JURASSIC WORLD

JURASSIC WORLD

By Jarrod Jones. There’s something woefully amiss when the spectacle of dinosaurs roaming the earth isn’t enough to put asses in theater seats. Even Jurassic World’s stud du jour Chris Pratt knows something’s up: “They’re dinosaurs....