by Jarrod | Jul 26, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Arpad Okay, Kate Kowalski, and Jarrod Jones. *Reading Watchmen upside-down* Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there. *Sets book down* Did you know that DoomRocket, your second- or possibly third-favorite review site, launched 10 years ago this month?...
by Jarrod | Mar 2, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Jarrod Jones. “When the chips are down, these ‘civilized people’? They’ll eat each other.” That ominous assurance from the Joker (Heath Ledger) becomes something of a prognostication for Gotham City in The Dark Knight Rises,...
by Jarrod | Jul 26, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Matthew C. Brown. 1. The Mole. One Week 2. The Sea. One Day 3. The Air. One Hour. These three temporal locations are the focal points of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. The measure of time after each refers to the duration of the events we see in each location. In...
by Jarrod | Jan 8, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Tom Platt. As it is with every adventure story built on a verbal retelling, the blanks get filled in with embellished detail. But if the adventure is enrapturing enough, no matter whose version you hear, the core of that story will always remain true. So...
by Jarrod | May 15, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. We may have the technology to create incredible worlds that could never exist, and spectacular action sequences that deliberately spit on the physics that hold our humdrum reality together, but none of it means a damn thing if you’re not allowed...
