Author Archives: reelentropy

I demand a new ‘John Wick’ movie every year until I die.

Posted on March 22, 2023 by reelentropy

In a November 2015 essay a month before Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Disney’s first Star Wars-branded movie-product, released, an essay in Wired popularized the idea that Disney intended to make a new Star Wars movie every year until you … Continue reading →

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‘Women Talking’ imagines what it wants, but not what it needs

Posted on March 10, 2023 by reelentropy

5/10 In the mid ‘00s in the Manitoba Mennonite colony in Bolivia cut off from modern cities where women are not taught to read and only speak an outdated dialect of German, several colony men came up with a scheme … Continue reading →

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‘All Quiet’ adaptation fails in every way, but especially upward

Posted on March 10, 2023 by reelentropy

2/10 Netflix’ first-ever German language adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front leads the charge of international prestige movies in 2022, releasing pre-packaged with the announcement of its submission for the 95th Academy Awards as a Laser-accurate adaptation of … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged 18 monate spater, 1917, All Quiet on the Western Front, Daniel Bruhl, Daniel Bruhl's self-insert All Quiet on the Western Front fan fic, Marvel, MCU, Netflix, Real Wars that Really Happened Cinematic Universe | Leave a comment

Edgelord of ‘Babylon’

Posted on March 2, 2023 by reelentropy

7/10 About five minutes into Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, an elephant shits directly onto the camera. It’s a point-of-view shot for our main character, Manny Torres (Diego Calva), who is tasked with getting this elephant to a gigantic, depraved party at … Continue reading →

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Another, sadder lens into the past in ‘Empire of Light’

Posted on March 2, 2023 by reelentropy

5/10 Empire of Light is a good, quiet little movie that’s sad, thoughtful and breathtakingly beautiful, and I liked it. The Empire Cinema, Ballroom and Restaurant in Margate, England, December, 1980- Hilary Small (Olivia Colman), who works as the theater … Continue reading →

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