Author Archives: reelentropy

‘Us’ a triumph of genre, auteur filmmaking

Posted on March 24, 2019 by reelentropy

9/10 Leaving the theater for the first time, the only thing I’m 100 percent sure about Us is that I need to see it again. At their vacation home in Santa Cruz, California, the Wilson family, mother Adelaide, father Gabe … Continue reading →

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The Möbius Strip- All ‘Captain Marvel’ all the time, ‘Us’ premiers at SXSW

Posted on March 12, 2019 by reelentropy

Captain Marvel zoomed in to save the 2019 box office with a $153.4 million debut and $456.7 million worldwide. That ranks for the third highest March opening, the fifth highest international opening and the sixth highest worldwide opening on the … Continue reading →

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‘Captain Marvel’ is everything that drives me up a wall about the MCU, I hate it so much

Posted on March 8, 2019 by reelentropy

6/10 It is such a tremendously good thing that Captain Marvel is a movie that exists, but could the movie itself have been good? Is that really so much to ask? In 1996 on the Kree homeworld of Hala, Vers … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #brie larson, #charlize theron, #Disney, #mcu, #samuel l jackson, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Atomic Blonde, Ben Davis, Ben Mendelsohn, Captain Marvel, Debbie Berman, Elliot Graham, Guardians of the Galaxy, Lashana Lynch, Marvel, Nicole Perlman | 1 Comment

Unpacking the hateful version of history at the 91st Academy Awards

Posted on March 5, 2019 by reelentropy

In 1915, Epoch Producing Co. released what is widely considered to be the first epic film, though there is some pushback against that, Birth of a Nation. In the film, after chronicling the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #birth of a nation, #django unchained, #donald trump, Black Klansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bryan Singer, Eat Shit Disney, Freddie Mercury, Green Book, Hays Code, John Ottman, John Ottman was complicit in Bryan Singer's abuse, Ku Klux Klan, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Remi Malek, revisionist history, Ronald Reagan was the fucking antichrist, The Last Samurai, very fine people on both sides, White Savior | Leave a comment

‘Cold War’ artsy fartsy, would be cooler if it weren’t

Posted on February 7, 2019 by reelentropy

4/10 After debuting in May 2018 at Cannes, where writer/director Paweł Pawlikowski won the festival’s best director award, and rolling out across several film markets overseas over a period of months, Polish- and French-language period drama Cold War has finally … Continue reading →

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