by | Feb 27, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR, NEWSWIRE
By Jarrod Jones. In an evening eclipsed by a moment of sheer buffoonery, on a scale that simply must be seen to be believed, the 89th Academy Awards was an otherwise unwatchable affair made tolerable by a smattering of well-deserved wins. Those winners — amongst...
by | Feb 24, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR, NEWSWIRE
By Jarrod Jones. Even though we’re so damned close to March, 2016 just won’t die. This Sunday the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences will hand out a bunch of awards to movies you saw last year and likely forgot all about. While your local movie...
by | Jan 24, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR, NEWSWIRE
UPDATED: This morning, a bleary-eyed press corps was greeted by the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Cheryl Boone Isaacs and a slew of caffeine-deprived celebrities (like Captain Marvel Brie Larson and Jennifer Hudson) read aloud this...
by | Oct 10, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Michael Cuesta’s Kill The Messenger, a film about the weapons of journalism wielded by a goateed Jeremy Renner, is a tonally mixed bag of several great ideas. It’s a simmering political procedural that takes place during the plasti-sheen...
by | Oct 3, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. “Zero must equal one hundred percent. Good luck.” What a remarkably villainous equation for a robot to assign to a human being. Make everything out of nothing, I dare you. “Good luck” is a taunt on the innate curiosity of human nature itself. Such...
