Author Archives: reelentropy

Southpaw an acceptable boxing flick with bizarre title

Posted on July 27, 2015 by reelentropy

In boxing, a southpaw is simply a left-handed boxer. Having seen Southpaw, the question remains — is Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) left-handed? It’s never addressed in the movie. He even signs a contract at one point, but I don’t remember which hand … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #boxing, #forest whitaker, #hell's kitchen, #jake gyllenhaal, #jersey, #left handed, #leonardo dicaprio, #nightcrawler, #rachel mccadams, #southpaw, #the revenant, #wolf of wall street, J. Edgar | 2 Comments

Paper Towns tears down long-disavowed trope

Posted on July 27, 2015 by reelentropy

Like last week’s Trainwreck, Paper Towns isn’t any kind of genre trailblazer, but it’s charming enough to make up for all the things you’ve seen before. It even throws in some things you may not have. The movie is narrated by Q … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #(500) days of summer, #bromance, #cara delevingne, #john green, #manic pixie dream girl, #nat wolff, #paper towns, #the fault in our stars, #the new girl, #trainwreck, #zooey deschanel | Leave a comment

Pixels is tolerable, not great, everybody calm down

Posted on July 24, 2015 by reelentropy

Critics are going absolutely apeshit about Pixels, and it’s a gigantic overreaction. The movie follows Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler, who also produces), a competitive arcade gamer in 1982, into the present day as an abject failure — divorced, installing other peoples’ entertainment … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #adam sandler, #ant-man, #centipede, #game of thrones, #Home, #josh gad, #kevin james, #minions, #pacman, #paper towns, #peter dinklage, #pixels, #pixels short, #qbert, #relativism, #rotten tomatoes, #sexism, #southpaw, #trainwreck, Transformers | 2 Comments

Trainwreck a reminder why rom coms were popular in the first place

Posted on July 23, 2015 by reelentropy

Trainwreck isn’t the shot in the arm that will reignite our flame with the formulaic American rom-com, but it will remind us why we fell in love with it in the first place. Written by and starring Comedy Central upstart Amy … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #(500) days of summer, #amy schumer, #bill hader, #comedy central, #eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, #inside amy schumer, #john cena, #judd apatow, #lebron james, #romantic comedy, #the daily show, #trainwreck | Leave a comment

Reely understanding It Follows

Posted on July 20, 2015 by reelentropy

With It Follows’ DVD release last week, it’s time to go into a little more depth on the film’s titular creature and what it might mean. It Follows is an infuriating film to analyze because it’s all supposedly based on writer/director David Robert … Continue reading →

Posted in Reel understanding | Tagged #it follows | 3 Comments