Monthly Archives: October 2016

The Open Bar Review – Wes Craven

Posted on October 31, 2016 by reelentropy

In this week’s Open Bar Review, for Halloween we put together a career retrospective on Wes Craven, who died in August of last year. Rhiannon returns triumphantly to tell us all about it.

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Inferno is one third of a great movie, then it gets boring

Posted on October 28, 2016 by reelentropy

Oh, that’s right, Sony owns the rights to this series. That explains it. In Inferno, the third film adaptation of Dan Brown’s novels, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) returns to bring more obscure Catholic conspiracy theories into the mainstream. This go around starts … Continue reading →

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Ouija defies the Natural Order

Posted on October 26, 2016 by reelentropy

Ever since The Conjuring blew the lid off the horror genre by opening to $41 million in July 2013, studios have been devoting most of their scary movie resources into Blockbuster season. October, traditionally horror’s time to shine, has become something of … Continue reading →

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Applying Chaos Theory: Mope Mope Power Rangers!

Posted on October 18, 2016 by reelentropy

I have as soft a spot as any ’90s kid for Power Rangers and I’ve been walking on air since I heard they were getting a Darker and Grittier reboot, but this first trailer is, well, tragic.

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Open Bar Review — The Girl on the Train

Posted on October 18, 2016 by reelentropy

Posted in Documented entropy | Tagged #emily blunt, #sicario, Justin Theroux, Justin Trudeau, Mary Higgins Clark, The Girl on the Train | Leave a comment