Category Archives: Entropy

All I hear is politics inside my brain, someone help me!

Posted on March 10, 2016 by reelentropy

At the end of Zootopia, the diversity hire cop turns to the camera and tells the audience that profiling and racism are bad, and we need to work together to eliminate them from our society. At the end of London Has Fallen, the black … Continue reading →

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Triple 9 wastes excellent cast in hopeless mess

Posted on March 8, 2016 by reelentropy

Sometimes a movie just doesn’t make sense. Not in a surrealist way that leaves you wondering what the monolith symbolizes, but in a practical way that leaves you wondering what the characters were doing and why. Triple 9’s plot is almost … Continue reading →

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Gods of Egypt, a visual-effects driven blockbuster, has some of the worst visual effects of all time

Posted on March 7, 2016 by reelentropy

Gods of Egypt, after the first trailer dropped, was immediately scheduled for crusafixion over its casting of almost uniformly white actors in a movie about the Egyptian pantheon, which obviously should be made up of black and Arabic actors. Unfortunately, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #alex proyas, #brenton thwaites, #daredevil, #game of thrones, #geoffrey rush, #gerard butler, #gods of egypt, #nikolaj coster-waldeau, #power rangers, #star wars | 1 Comment

Risen proves evangelical movies are here to stay

Posted on February 23, 2016 by reelentropy

Isn’t this the movie the Coen brothers pretended to make in Hail, Caesar! two weeks ago? Risen follows Clavius (Joseph Fiennes, the very spitting image of Michael Jackson), a Roman tribune, through the story of Jesus’ Resurrection. Clavius is charged by Pontius Pilate … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #affirm, #coen brothers, #exodus, #fireproof, #hail caesar, #joseph fiennes, #mormons, #pure flix, #ralph fiennes, #ridley scott, #risen, #the witch, #tom felton, #war room, Daniel Radcliffe, Darren Aronofsky, God's not Dead, Harry Potter, Noah | 2 Comments

The Witch trades in thrills to deliver unbelievable chills

Posted on February 21, 2016 by reelentropy

No, it’s not the scariest movie ever made. It may, however, be the scariest movie ever made entirely about boobs. Set in the 1600s a few decades before the Salem Witch Trials, The Witch follows a Puritan family banished from their plantation over … Continue reading →

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