Author Archives: reelentropy

It’s important that The Wolverine be a good movie, and… it is… kind of… The film follows Marvel’s indestructible-yet-oddly-sympathetic superhero (Hugh Jackman, who also produces) as he wanders to Japan to say goodbye to a man whose life he’d saved in World … Continue reading →

If The Conjuring is the first horror movie you ever see, it might actually be scary. The film is based on the most malevolent supposedly-true preternatural encounter experienced by real-life demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold … Continue reading →

Pacific Rim is the best movie of the summer by a country mile. I could expound on the plot, but it doesn’t matter. It’s giant monsters vs. giant robots. A wormhole opens in a fracture in the Pacific Ocean and … Continue reading →

Despicable Me 2 is just so wonderful. The sequel to the 2010 hit sees Gru (Steve Carell) returning to action to help the Anti-Villain League. The league has lost a mutating agent, and to catch a supervillain, they feel they … Continue reading →

Say this, at least, for The Lone Ranger: they got a really, really pretty horse. The controversial blockbuster, based on the long-running radio and television series of the same name, is a strange exercise in poor filmmaking layered on top … Continue reading →