Author Archives: reelentropy

MCU returns to form – an unwatchable CGI nightmare

Posted on March 1, 2025 by reelentropy

In Captain America: New World – woah, WOAH! This movie is titled what now? OK. OK, that’s better. In Captain America: New World Order Brave New World, after the COVID-19 crisis and the 2023 double-strike combined to form a long … Continue reading →

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‘Longlegs’ shakes the horror genre, will turn your stomach and bust you gut in one night out

Posted on July 22, 2024 by reelentropy

Writer/director Oz Perkins’ new masterpiece Longlegs is going to change horror forever. It’s an absolute knockout, eerie, haunting and disquieting while also just joyful enough to put several grins on your face. Oregon, 1990s- FBI Special Agent Lee Harker (Maika … Continue reading →

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Living with the phantom of ‘The Phantom Menace’

Posted on June 8, 2024 by reelentropy

Somehow, it is 2024, meaning we are almost a quarter-century into this new millennium. 1999, the final year that looks like it belongs in the past to my eyes, is 25 years ago. The upshot is the year was chalk-full … Continue reading →

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I don’t run screaming out of theaters often, but ‘The Zone of Interest’ got me there

Posted on April 24, 2024 by reelentropy

The Zone of Interest is a soul-shaking historical document, closer to a docudrama or recreation than a traditional film.   Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Nazi-occupied Poland, summer, 1943- Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife, Hedwig (Christian Friedel and … Continue reading →

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Simulacra, simulation, ‘Mean Girls’

Posted on April 22, 2024 by reelentropy

Mean Girls (Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr, 2024) is an adaptation of a Broadway musical that was itself an adaptation of the iconic 2004 film Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004), and it’s exactly what it looks like. North Shore … Continue reading →

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