Category Archives: Entropy

Melania Trump’s cinema of omission

Posted on January 31, 2026 by reelentropy

The only sequence in Melania that threatens to expand into a watchable narrative with conflict and stakes appears suddenly through the morass of extended scenes of nothing happening. Former president Jimmy Carter has died, and Melania Trump, credited as star … Continue reading →

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The poorly fitting patchwork of del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’

Posted on November 17, 2025 by reelentropy

What’s happened is writer/director/producer Guillermo del Toro has made the same movie he’s been making for 30 years and stitched a heavily altered Sparknotes version of “Frankenstein” overtop of it, just detailed enough that you’ll hear some of the main … Continue reading →

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‘Badlands’ second Disney-era ‘Predator’ movie, second new franchise best

Posted on November 11, 2025 by reelentropy

Predator: Badlands is a movie, a real one, the kind you grew up hearing about. It’s got everything – constant action, adventure to far-away lands, coming of age, complex relationships between technology and nature, rugged individualism weighed against a communal … Continue reading →

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‘Megalopolis,’ Coppola’s triumphant ode to human nature

Posted on October 14, 2025 by reelentropy

Megalopolis is the masterpiece at the end of time, the scrambled ramblings of an octogenarian who has watched the world rise out of and fall back into fascism, at once resigned, hopeful, crass, depraved, bitterly audacious and frequently laugh-out-loud funny … Continue reading →

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‘The Substance:’ permission to hurt yourself

Posted on October 14, 2025 by reelentropy

The Substance is an indie masterpiece destined to turn filmmaking on its head overnight with its furious satire, retro techniques and list of B-movie references so long it reminds me of Pulp Fiction, another Franken-movie built out of references to … Continue reading →

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