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Living with the phantom of ‘The Phantom Menace’
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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Tagged Disney, Dune, George Lucas, Lucasfilm, Star Wars, The Phantom Menace
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A quarantine with The Master
Several years ago now, I started systemically moving through the work of high-profile directors. This is part of the path from loud movie nerd to legitimate film scholar – film scholars actually study film, they don’t just write about it. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, David O. Selznick, Dial M for Murder, Disney, Dr. No, Foreign COrrespondent, Francois Truffaut, Frenzy, Gone with the Wind, Halloween, I Confess, Independence Day, Jamaica Inn, Lifeboat, Marnie, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, North by Northwest, Psycho, Rear Windo, Rebecca, Rope, Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Silence of the Lambs, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Strangers on a Train, Studio system, The 39 Steps, The Birds, The Dark Knight, The Lady Vanishes, The Paradine Case, The Trouble with Harry, Tippi Hedren, To Catch a Thief, Torn Curtain, Under Capricorn, Vertigo
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Revisiting ‘Uncut Gems’ eight months later
I’ve been revisiting a lot of recently streaming favorites in quarantine, and I wanted to take a few minutes to write about a movie that I don’t think I gave its due on initial examination. Uncut Gems is a frustrating … Continue reading
Revisiting ‘Contagion’ in the age of coronavirus
As the COVID-19 pandemic quietly spreads through the U.S. and the country very loudly grinds to a halt, movie theaters are one of many businesses that are shutting their doors. Amid news of delayed releases and entire theater chains closing, … Continue reading
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Tagged #donald trump, #jude law, #laurence fishburne, #Magic Mike, #marion cotillard, #steven soderbergh, Alex Jones, CDC, Contagion, coronavirus, COVID-19, Gwenyth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Scott Z. Burns, The Laundromat, The Report, Unsane, WHO
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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
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Tagged "For your consideration", "too intellectual", #10 cloverfield lane, #Alex Garland, #ant-man, #Avengers, #black panther, #david lynch, #Disney, #donald glover, #eddie murphy, #iron man, #justice league, #lucasfilm, #man of steel, #mcu, #Netflix, #paramount pictures, #samuel l jackson, #sandra bullock, #sony, #suicide squad, #warner bros., #will smith, #wonder woman, A Quiet Place, Annihilation, aquaman, Arrival, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Bird Box, Black Klansman, Blade, Blindspotting, Bumblebee, Childish Gambino, Christopher Robin, Darren Aronofsky, David Ellison, Dr. Seuss' The Grinch, Episode IX, Get Out, Glass, Guardians of the Galaxy, It, Jim Gianopulos, Mandy, Marvel, Mary Poppins Returns, Megan Colligan, Mission: Impossible -- Fallout, mother!, Overlord, Phase III, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Scott Rudin, Sherlock Gnomes, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Sorry to Bother You, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spike Lee, The Cloverfield Paradox, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, This is America, Venom
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