Author Archives: reelentropy

Learning to love Dallas again at the Oak Cliff Film Festival

Posted on August 24, 2023 by reelentropy

Tony Ruggio Keep Dallas Pretentious. That shirt exists out there, in the glimmer and glamorous ether of the second largest city in Texas, worn by Dallas denizens swathed in club wear and creating noise across downtown via all manner of … Continue reading →

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‘Barbie’ is all about queerness and domestic violence and it took my dumb ass a week to fully realize it

Posted on July 29, 2023 by reelentropy

My Barbie review last week ended with several paragraphs on the romantic relationship played out in stereo between the Barbies and the Kens in the final leg of the film, the main argument being it seems like writer/director Greta Gerwig … Continue reading →

Posted in Reel understanding | Tagged #2001: a space odyssey, #donald trump, Abortion access, Barbie, domestic violence, Don't Worry Darling, Greta Gerwig, my dumb ass, Noah Baumbach, Oppenheimer, queerness, Supreme Court | 1 Comment

‘Oppenheimer:’ how I learned to love the bomb and start worrying

Posted on July 24, 2023 by reelentropy

10/10 Los Almos, New Mexico, 1940s- The human instinct toward self-destruction has metastasized and now threatens to consume our entire species. Thirty years after a war to end all wars, many of the people who were hurt the worst by … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer | 1 Comment

Come on ‘Barbie,’ let’s go party with gender theory

Posted on July 23, 2023 by reelentropy

9/10 Barbie is an irrepressible explosion of high fashion, joyous and extraordinary set design and deliberately off-kilter dialogue and body language all delivered with a stone-cold straight face from writer/director/executive producer Greta Gerwig. It may be categorically a satire, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Barbie, gender theory, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, ripping on your shitty ex who likes Matchbox Twenty is never the cool patriarchy-smashing move you think it is, Ryan Gosling, the patriarchy | 1 Comment

‘Mission: Impossible,’ the gold standard and the movie of the moment

Posted on July 23, 2023 by reelentropy

9/10 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has been the movie of the moment since December 2020, when audio leaked of producer/star Tom Cruise tearing into a couple of technicians for standing too close to each other. In the … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged COVID-19, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One, Mission: Impossible -- Fallout, The future of this fucking industry, The gold standard, Tom Cruise, We are not shutting this fucking movie down | Leave a comment