Author Archives: reelentropy

Knopp finally writes about ‘Avatar’

Posted on December 18, 2022 by reelentropy

I started writing about movies formally in January 2010 with The Book of Eli, which released the second weekend of that year more than $20 million behind Avatar, which was in its fifth weekend. I’ve heard so much about Avatar … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged 3D, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, Dances with Wolves, Disney, James Cameron, PLF, The Way of Water | 1 Comment

Wakanda long ago, ‘Wakanda Forever’

Posted on November 11, 2022 by reelentropy

7/10 Everyone in the world has been through a lot since Black Panther showed us a magical dream of uncolonized Africa in February 2018. Four years later in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, that dream is tainted by real-life tragedy among … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Angela Bassett, aquaman, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Black Widow, Chadwick Boseman, coronavirus, half-finished Scorpion King-looking special effects, Letitia Wright, Martin Freeman, Marvel, MCU, Michael B. Jordan, Phase IV, Talokan, Tenoch Huerta, Wakanda | 1 Comment

The bust-out of Warner Bros.

Posted on October 15, 2022 by reelentropy

Industrial-scale film distribution dates back to before World War I. In the bad old days with no way to transmit information digitally, movies had to be physically carried from Southern California outward, a supply chain that wound its way across … Continue reading →

Posted in Applying Chaos Theory, White Noise | Tagged "House of the Dragon", Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Batgirl, Black Adam, Christopher Nolan, DCEU, Disney, Disney+, Ezra Miller, HBO, HBOmax, Justice League, Marvel, MCU, Netflix, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Streaming wars, The Batman, The Flash, The medium is the message, Warner Bros., Zack Snyder | 5 Comments

Tunneling into the ruins of #metoo in ‘Barbarian’

Posted on October 11, 2022 by reelentropy

7/10 Five years after The New York Times broke that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was accused of varying degrees of sexual misconduct by dozens of women who had come to him for employment and used his wealth, power and reputation … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #metoo, Barbarian, Bill Skarsgard, Harvey Weinstein | 1 Comment

Yearn and soar with ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’

Posted on October 6, 2022 by reelentropy

9/10 Three Thousand Years of Longing is an epic psychedelic romance that makes you feel every second, not of its 108 minutes, but of its sweeping millennia. Room 333 of the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul- At a fiction conference, … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged George Miller, Idris Elba, Mad Max: Fury Road, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Tilda Swinton | Leave a comment