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 | Jul 25, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where a good death is its own reward. THE FILM: Man of Steel THE YEAR: 2013, one year after Christopher Nolan changed the superhero landscape, for better or worse, with his Dark Knight trilogy,...
by Jarrod | Jun 13, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. It’s both interesting and disheartening that superhero movies have morphed into garish cameo cavalcades that pull visuals — and sometimes even actors — from decades-old superhero movies to sell...
by Jarrod | May 31, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Jarrod Jones. By the end of the 1940s, Hollywood’s response to Superman’s popularity had been appropriate; between Max and Dave Fleischer’s stunning Superman animated shorts and Kirk Alyn’s 15-part movie serials, the Man of Steel was...
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...
