Bendis, Bendis, Bendis — CASUAL WEDNESDAYS WITH DOOMROCKET
By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is Casual Wednesdays With DoomRocket, where each week we discuss our feelings concerning the comics that mean the most to us, and the industry news that affects us all. This…
Ludicrous, ambitious ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ wants to smash, and we want to let it
By Jarrod Jones. Among being many, many other things, Thor: Ragnarok is a heart-shaped valentine to Jack Kirby, cut from red and green construction paper, glued together with care, and gleaming with liberal amounts of glitter. Undulating orbs form and dissipate around…
‘Thor Ragnarok’ Teaser, or: How I Spent My Summer Vacation — IN NIFLHEIM
By Jarrod Jones. You’d never think a Marvel Studios movie would kick off with a monologue that went, “Now I know what you’re thinking!” But then you actually think about Marvel Studios movies for three consecutive seconds, and then you decide, yeah, they…
THE HULK WILL PROBABLY SHOW UP IN ‘THOR: RAGNAROK’
By Matt Fleming. For any Marvel fans who thought we’d seen the last of Mark Ruffalo’s big, incredible green guy at the end of Age of Ultron, fear not! He’s coming back… in his own movie? No? As Thor’s sidekick? I…
DONNA WATCHES BUNCHES OF MOVIES (PART 2)
By Donna Bourgois. Good thing I was so ahead of schedule last month, because wow, I needed that buffer. I lost a week due to travel, I flew up to Michigan to surprise a friend at his send-off party to Japan….
OSCAR-BATE 2015: ‘BIRDMAN’ WINS, ‘BOYHOOD’ LOSES, AND THE DREADED CYCLE STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN
By Jarrod Jones. It was the best of times, it was the most emotionally exhausting of times. Well, for anyone who was really hoping Boyhood would take home more than one Oscar anyway. (SPOILER: It didn’t.) Birdman may have scored the big gold on Sunday night,…
FOXCATCHER
By Kyle G. King. The director’s responsibility to a film, among others, is to blend a world of fiction within a semi-logical world of reality. Bennett Miller is a director who is unwilling to commit completely to one style of filmmaking, but…
