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Narrative like shattered ‘Glass’ makes new M. Night film a tough watch
3/10 Almost 20 years ago, M. Night Shyamalan was forbidden from using the words “comic book” to describe his 2000 movie Unbreakable, about translating comic book tropes into a gritty real-world setting, fearing that the recent Batman movies would scare … Continue reading
The Möbius Strip- ‘Upside’ a surprise winner, BAFTA nominations
The Upside doubled its box office expectations last weekend, earning $20.4 million for a surprise No. 1 finish. Aquaman sunk to no. 2 for the first time with a strong $17.4 million in its fourth weekend and, somewhat astonishingly, becoming … Continue reading
Posted in The Möbius strip
Tagged #bryan cranston, #guillermo del toro, #kevin hart, #metoo, #Netflix, #the weinstein company, A Dog's Way Home, A Star is Born, Al Pacino, aquaman, BAFTA, Bohemian Rhapsody, Death of Stalin, fuck the Oscars, Green Book, Harvey Weinstein, Kareem!, Roma, Simon Kinberg, Steve McQueen, The Favourite, The Oscars, The Upside, Vice, Widows, X-Men: Dark Phoenix
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‘The Upside’ decently entertaining, has no story
1/10 The Upside had its premiere all the way back in September 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was set for distribution March 9 of the next year. Unfortunately, that distribution was being handled by The Weinstein Company, … Continue reading
The most important films of 2018
Annual top 10 list are boring and dumb and stupid and dumb and boring and, and, and dumb. At Reel Entropy, we aspire to track movies over time, and as such, instead of bringing you personal picks for the best … Continue reading
Posted in A less chaotic state, White Noise
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‘Vice’ wastes spectacular cast in disorganized docu-comedy
5/10 In 2015, tired of making Will Ferrell movies, Adam McKay wrote and directed The Big Short, a strange docu-comedy that aimed to explain to mass audiences how the 2008 economic collapse happened, and that movie won a ton of … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #adam mckay, #christian bale, #naomi watts, #steve carell, #the big short, #will ferrell, Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell, The Wolf of Wall Street, Vice
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