Author Archives: reelentropy

‘Hacksaw Ridge’ is OK, I guess

Posted on November 6, 2016 by reelentropy

Whenever I watch a World War II movie, I spend the entire time asking myself whether or not I should be watching Band of Brothers instead. Hacksaw Ridge is a movie split in two, and has two answers — “yes, definitely” and “No. Well, … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #teresa palmer, Andrew Garfield, Band of Brothers, boring, Hacksaw Ridge, Hugo Weaving, Mel Gibson, Mel Gibson is a crazy person, Saving Private Ryan, Vince Vaughn | 2 Comments

‘Doctor Strange’ and the Origin Story Blues

Posted on November 4, 2016 by reelentropy

At long last, the wait is over. After a grueling campaign stretching more than a year back, it’s finally time for the most talked-about, hotly anticipated event of 2016. I’m talking, of course, about the year’s sixth guaranteed smash-hit comic book … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #2001, #batman begins, #benjamin bratt, #chiwetel ejiofor, #doctor strange, #michael stuhlbarg, #sohotrightnow, #suicide squad, #the matrix, #tom hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Got jokes, Inception, Mads Mikkelsen, Marvel, the Origin Story Blues, Tilda Swinton | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #memento, #ron howard, #tom hanks, Angels & Demons, Ben Foster, Catholic conspiracy trivia, Catholicism, CERN, Dan Brown, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Felicity Jones, Holocene Extinction, Inception music, Inferno, Irrfan Khan, Large Hadron Collider, Mary Sue, Power fantasy, Robert Langdon is kind of dumb, The Da Vinci Code, The World Health Organization does not have a police force, World Health Organization | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Documented entropy, Entropy | Tagged #blumhouse productions, #jack reacher, Absentia, annabelle 2, Annalise Basso, Blockbuster season, Boo! A Madea Halloween, Brett Ratner, David F. Sandberg, Elizabeth Reaser, Gerald's Game, John M. Chu, Lights Out, Lulu Wilson, Mike Flanagan, Occulus, Ouija, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Stephen King, The Conjuring | Leave a comment