by Jarrod | Apr 19, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. You know, it’s weird: the first thirty-odd minutes of Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid reminded me of the climax to The Matrix Revolutions. That’s the bit where Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss...
by Jarrod | Aug 13, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Tom Platt. Armed with a flask of single malt scotch in his back pocket, a potbellied philosophy professor swims through the deep ocean of impotence, quoting Immanuel Kant in search of his own personal joie de vivre. With Irrational Man, Woody Allen presents another...
by Jarrod | Feb 2, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Donna Bourgois. If you’ve never been to Austin let me fill you in on some of the things that make the city great. Of course there’s SXSW, Fantastic Fest, and tons of live music (and tons of traffic). I combat my 2 hour commute to and from work everyday with...
by Jarrod | Jan 9, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. If you find it difficult to consider Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice as a vital piece of cinema, you’d do well to consider this: as a vibrant, semi-cohesive throwback to the days of true, lurid film noir, where time and peace seemed...
