Author Archives: reelentropy

Letting yourself get tricked by ‘The Conjuring’ one last time

Posted on September 12, 2025 by reelentropy

For 15 years, the Insidious/Conjuring series have been my bane, these stupid, colorless Halloween costume movies that rake in money hand over fist on name recognition and nothing else. Lately, however, New Line Cinema has affixed The Conjuring series with … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged James Wan, Michael Chaves, patrick wilson, The Conjuring, The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Curse of La Lorona, Vera Farmiga | Leave a comment

Re-entering ‘The Matrix’ in the age of simulacra

Posted on September 2, 2025 by reelentropy

A member of the legendary class of ’99, I saw The Matrix twice in theaters last year for 25th anniversary screenings. This was after a 2021 re-release ahead of The Matrix Resurrections, the series’ corporate-mandated retrofit, which was actually my … Continue reading →

Posted in Beta Decay, White Noise | Tagged Cosm Dallas, Grandscape, The Matrix, The Matrix in Shared Reality, The Matrix Resurrections | Leave a comment

Mystery box of ‘Weapons’ is, predictably, empty

Posted on August 8, 2025 by reelentropy

There’s a new mystery box dealer in Hollywood. His boxes are also empty. The mystery box is always empty. Maybrook, Pennsylvania, 2:17 a.m. on a Wednesday- Seventeen children from the same class at Maybrook Elementary, as one, get out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Barbarian, J.J. Abrams, Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Prisoners, Weapons, Zach Cregger | Leave a comment

Outrageous, cowardly Colbert firing a travesty for Free Speech, Press

Posted on July 20, 2025 by reelentropy

CBS, weeks after parent company Paramount agreed to donate $16 million to the Trump presidential library to settle a nonsensical lawsuit it would easily have beaten had it fought, announced this week it would not renew the contract of leading … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged ABC, CBS, Disney, Donald Trump, Freedom of the Press, Paramount, Stephen Colbert | 1 Comment

New ‘Superman’ flies low under a long shadow

Posted on July 11, 2025 by reelentropy

After 12 excruciating years, Warner Bros. has given up the ghost and paved over the muddy, miserable Man of Steel with a sunny, cheerful new Superman movie, with James Gunn as writer, director and producer and affixed as the chief … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged David Corenswet, DCEU, DCU, Elon Musk, James Gunn, Long live the DCU, Man of Steel, MCU, Nicholas Hoult, Suicide Squad, Superman, The Batman, The DCEU is dead, The Suicide Squad, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder | Leave a comment