by Jarrod | Jun 30, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. When Harrison Ford rode off into the sunset at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, it was an indelible movie moment — remember, if you can, a time when pop movie characters could say goodbye and mean it....
by Jarrod | Apr 25, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Arpad Okay. This is RETROGRADING, where we’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. THE FILM: Blade Runner THE YEAR: 1982. Ridley Scott leverages the power of Alien’s success to attempt another sophisticated genre film. Scott’s focus on making a...
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 | Dec 18, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
Before you go any further, be aware that this review has minor SPOILERS. If you haven’t seen ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ and you want to go in knowing absolutely nothing beyond what its unstoppable hype machine has already provided you, get the...
by Jarrod | Aug 15, 2014 | ANTI-MONITOR
This is the third 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 banter back and forth over the latest piece of filmic incoherence, Sylvester Stallone’s Golden...
