by Jarrod | Nov 13, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. Somewhere between sequences of sexual tension, gratuitous violence, and the shirtless Hugh Jackmans that populate the genre, superhero movies have become a category peddled to a plus-thirteen demographic. Perhaps that’s why it’s not common...
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 | Nov 7, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. If you’ve ever pined for a life of fame, you’ve undoubtedly imagined that – once you’d made it – there is satisfaction to be found in drowning your naysayers in your success. That emotion of unfiltered bumptiousness...
by Jarrod | Nov 7, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Matt Fleming. RETROGRADING is my attempt to parse the films of yesteryear, just to see if they hold their ground. Short Circuit (1986). When I began this series, I evoked Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, themes of which were adapted in a number of ‘80s films. From...
by Jarrod | Oct 30, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Donna Bourgois. Everyone loves the classic American Dream story. The American Dream isn’t so far back that we can’t dig through years of #thestruggle to find our roots. I’m sure we aren’t so completely jaded as a society, that we can’t remember stories of our...
